This study aims to investigate the changes that the prohibition of the non-audit services by section 201 of SOX brought in the relationship between the audit fees and non-audit fees. Both univariate and multivatiate regression methodologies has been used to test the hypotheses. Using both OLS...

We provide evidence that distinguishes between competing production cost-based explanations of how to interpret unusually high (or low) audit fees and their expected relation with accounting quality. Abnormally high or low fees are typically proxied by the residuals obtained from fee models....

Prior research provides mixed evidence about whether sufficient audit market competition exists and whether competition impairs or improves audit quality. A major impediment to this stream of research is the unobservable nature of the bidding process by which auditors compete for clients. In...

The extant auditing literature documents an inconsistent relationship between audit fees and market concentration. In this paper, we argue that the impact of market concentration on audit fees is auditor and auditee specific. Based on the fact that the audit services to an auditee are generally...

We examine changes in fees paid to auditors around the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX, 2002). Audit fees are expected to increase after SOX due to both increased audit effort and potentially increased auditors' legal liability. Our results indicate an economically large increase in audit fees following...

This study aims to provide evidence of the impact of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on audit fees in Jordan. Our study is based on publicly available information obtained from a sample of annual reports from Jordanian industrial companies listed in Amman Stock...

Using a sample of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2006 to 2016, this paper examines the impact of insider selling on audit fees. The results show that auditors of clients with higher insider selling tend to charge higher fees. Mechanism tests show that the presence of insider selling is...

Disclosure quality is a matter of great importance in the accounting literature. This study examines the effect of audit fees, audit firm size and audit opinion on the quality of disclosures. It focuses on a sample of low-quality financial statements in Jordan that have been reported as breaches...

This paper examines the effects of CFO narcissism on audit fees in China. Using the size of CFO signatures in annual audit reports to measure individual narcissism, we find that CFO narcissism is associated with higher audit fees. We find empirical evidence that CFO narcissism significantly...