The paper investigates the effect of Audit Committee Effectiveness (ACE) on Earnings Management (EM) and consequently examines whether audit quality (Big4) can moderate the link between ACE and EM in Ghana. First, the study uses panel data from 25 non-financial firms in Ghana, and employs 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...

The external auditor cooperates and communicates with the audit committee of a company to ensure effective external audit, including detection of material misstatements in financial statements. Trust is an important element to facilitate information exchange and cooperation. This exploratory...

The present study aims to review systematically the state of the art of corporate governance in India. The study uses a sample of 161 published research papers extracted from 101 journals and 17 publishers' databases. The results indicated that 151 studies investigated the board of directors'...

This paper examines whether the changes in audit rotation policy affect the relationship between audit firm rotation and audit quality in Indonesia. This study uses 2,403 observations from 371 firms listed on the IDX for the period 2010-2017. This study uses Ordinary Least Squares regression to...

Using a sample of UK firms, we investigate whether external audit quality has an informational role for firms credit score. In our general research setting, we could not find any evidence on the association between firms’ credit score and external audit quality. However, when firms are...

The internal audit function is important to minimize the occurrence of fraudulent financial statements and provide assurance and independent consultation for decision-making. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship of the quality of internal audit team (internal audit function)...

Analysts' behavior is important, because they play a significant role in the capital market. Prior studies already show the effects of firm characteristics on analysts' behavior, however, there was a lack of research analyzing the effects of audits on financial analysts' behavior. Therefore, I...

This paper aimed to examine the effect of dividend on firm value, as well as the impact of audit quality on the relationship between dividend and firm value in Malaysian firms, which was measured via financial statements audited by four large-sized audit firms (henceforth the Big Four). The...

This paper investigates the effect of the application of standard audit hour on audit quality under the external audit law in Korea. As a result of empirical analysis, first, it is confirmed that the absolute value of the discretionary accrual decreased due to the application of the standard...