Purpose:We explore the application of the business risk audit (BRA) approach within non-Big-4 audit firms, in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. We focus on the motivation for adopting this approach for non-Big-4 audit firms in the three countries, and the advantages, disadvantages...

We investigate the determinants of key audit matters (KAMs) in the auditor's report. In particular, we examine the impact of overlapped audit committee (AC) directors on the quantity of KAMs disclosure. We also examine the consequences of KAMs disclosure. We test to see if the quantity of KAMs...