In Vietnam, auditor independence is guided by the Code of Professional Ethics for Accounting and Auditing issued in accordance with Circular No. 70/2015/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance. Independence is the first and most important principle for the professional ethics of auditors. Independence...

The study investigates impact of board diversity and quality audit on financial performance by analyzing listed firms in Pakistan. Board diversity is investigated in terms of nationality diversity and gender diversity. Audit is studied in domain of quality audit and audit cost. Although various...

The Regional Governments’ Financial Statements in Indonesia that have obtained unqualified opinions had increased in recent years. However, the audit findings on the local government’s financial reports have also increased. Those conditions have motivated us to empirically analyze the...

This study examines the impacts of seven types of audit committee expertise (accounting academic, auditing, finance academic, CEO or finance director, other finance, industry and legal expertise) on real earnings management. 1054 firm-year observations are used in the study. The sample firms are...

This study investigates how audit committee accounting expertise (ACAE) influences the relationship between audit firm attributes (AUFA) and income smoothing (IS). The study employed 616 firm-year observations from 2013 to 2019 and robust logistic regression as a data analysis technique. The...

This study aims to examine the effect of auditor experience, auditor ethics, professional skepticism, and auditor personality type on fraud detection. This research was designed using a quantitative approach. Data analysis using multiple linear regression model with spps software. There are...

In 1998, the act on mutual savings banks was amended to create a legal basis for auditor designation for certain mutual savings banks in Korea. Also, a series of restructuring processes for the savings banking industry took place in 2011 due to the insolvency of some savings banks. This study...

The purpose of the study was to establish the impact of audit committee characteristics on audit fees from listed companies in Ghana. Audit committee size, gender diversity, meeting, and financial expertise were adopted to measure audit committee characteristics against the fees charged by the...

In this study the researcher aims to investigate the effect of virtual audit proficiency on both audit effort and quality of auditors' performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the researcher investigates the effect of audit effort on the quality of auditors' performance during the...

This paper examines the impact of earnings quality (EQ) on the Vietnam companies' cost of debt (COD). We use data from companies listed on the Vietnam stock market from 2010 to 2019. In this paper, we develop a model to investigate the influence of audit quality and foreign ownership on COD. We...