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...

Using a large proprietary data set from the internal records of the Finnish Tax Administration for the fiscal year 2011, we examine the factors that trigger adjustments by the tax authority to the taxable income reported by around 25,000 small private companies. Using that data, we develop a new...

This study investigates the extent to which the pressures from outside stakeholders, specifically the providers of debt and trade credit, as opposed to owner-managers' internal needs explain the use of voluntary audits in micro-companies. Whereas previous studies have mainly focused on how bank...

We examine the effect of changes in audit risk standards on the conduct of financial statement audits in a European setting. We investigate this by analysing the audit hours and audit fees for clients of Big 4 audit firms in Finland in 1996 and 2010. Our results show that audit firms became more...

The purpose of this study is to validate the drivers of voluntary audit in small companies identified in previous research and uncover additional determinants related to agency conflicts with owners. For our research we use the German institutional setting, documented in the literature as being...

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...

This study investigates whether the market's perception of auditor quality makes a difference to the market value of a firm using a sample of 1 915 takeover offers in the USA over the period 1990 to 2005. The study finds, as hypothesised, that the takeover process makes a smaller correction to...

The purpose of this study is to uncover additional determinants of the demand for voluntary audit in micro-companies by investigating the internal management factors that have not yet been explored in prior literature. The hypotheses are developed from the literature and interviews with...

Using a large sample of firms that report under mandatory IFRS from 51 countries, this study examines the association between conditional conservatism, institutional quality, and Big 4 audits. We hypothesize and find that the degree of conditional conservatism is higher in countries with better...

While inputs into analysts' valuation models have been documented (Brown et al. 2015), analysts' prior perceptions of reported financial statement items have not yet been studied. It is important to be aware of analysts' perceptions of the current accounting standards because they are, to some...