We study auditors' client risk management in the first year of SOX 404 implementation, and find that there exists a pecking order among auditors' strategies to manage control risk resulting from internal control weaknesses. We first examine the relations between internal control weaknesses and...

We investigate Big 4 pricing over the period 2000 to 2010. We classify the data into five periods: 2000-2001 as the pre-SOX period, 2002-2003 as the SOX period, 2004-2006 as the AS2 period, 2007 as the AS5 period, and 2008-2010 as the Great Recession period. These shocks to the audit market...