Audit pricing, along with its determinants, forms one of the most extensively investigated areas in audit research. Recent years have seen increasing interest in the macro-level determinants of audit fees related to differences in audit environments around the world. To answer the resultant call...

Client- and auditor-related attributes are well-documented and often synthesized determinants of audit pricing. Particularly in recent years, the audit fee literature has undergone rapid growth in empirical archival research regarding the effect of external factors on audit pricing. We extend...