Out of reputation and audit risk considerations, the incumbent auditor may not be willing to accommodate the unreasonable request from the client with deteriorating financial conditions. On the other hand, the client may switch the auditor to solicit a clean audit opinion from the successive...

The present study examines the introduction of partial auction on speed of price adjustment in the Initial Public Offering's (IPO) aftermarket in Taiwan. From a paired comparison between before/after introducing partial auction sub-samples of the IPO firms, as expected, it is found that the...