There is a maintained assumption within the accounting literature that client bankruptcies preceded by clean audit opinions (Type II GCO errors) damage an auditor's reputation. Consistent with this view, the PCAOB proposes that stakeholders may use Type II GCO errors as indicators of low audit...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of audit time budget pressure, locus of control on audit quality reduction behavior conducted by auditors in Indonesia. This study also examines the role of the auditor's locus of control in moderating the relationship between time budget...

Purpose-This study investigates the association between IFRS effort due to higher levels of material adjustments and audit fees. In addition, this paper tests whether these associations differ between industry specialist auditors and non-specialist auditors. Design/Methodology/Approach- We...

Many legal jurisdictions, including the U.S. and U.K., have passed regulations to address the potential negative impacts of a lack of competition and high concentration in public company audit markets. One consequence of increased regulations, desired or not, is that they have presumably...

We hypothesize that companies in the same product market avoid sharing the same audit partner when they are concerned about possible information spillovers. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find that product market rivals are less likely to share the same partner when they perceive that...

We examine whether tax audits become more efficient if tax auditors have access to audited financial statements and information about statutory audit adjustments. We extend the standard tax compliance game by a statutory auditor to analyze the strategic interactions among a firm issuing...

Objective: To analyze the relationship between Critical Audit Matters (CAM) and earnings management practices among Brazilian companies. Method: This study's sample was composed of 96 companies listed in IBRX 100, data of which were collected from the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) and...

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...

We examine whether auditors effectively incorporate cues indicating increased risk into their evaluation of fair value estimates. Consistent with concerns from PCAOB inspections, more than one-third of fair value estimates in our security-level dataset differ from the true fair value by an...

Objective - the timeliness of financial statement submission becomes important in decision making. With the growing importance of timely financial statements for the relevance of decision making, an understanding of the determinants of audit report lag becomes necessary. This research intends to...