This study develops machine learning models to predict audit quality by using a wide range of data describing detailed characteristics of accounting firms, individual audit partners, and public companies in China. It constructs the surprise score, a new measure of audit quality, calculated as...

Cybersecurity threats can exert significant adverse effects on a company's performance, necessitating that stakeholders make an effort to understand the risks related to the companies with which they conduct business. However, since a company's relative exposure to cybersecurity risks is related...