With increased interest in voluntary sustainability reports from investors and other stakeholders, more companies are having these reports assured. The issue of what is considered material in these assurance engagements is important, and yet research on materiality has focused only on financial...

The aim of this paper is to examine the auditing practices of British gas companies at the beginning of the 19th century, mainly the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company (GLCC) , which was the first and largest of the gas undertakings worldwide. Gas companies paved the way for the railroads, but...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the firm-level factors effect on the audit pricing in China and Pakistan. For this purpose, we used the panel data of 160 firms of each country of study for the period from 2005 to 2011. First, we run the combined model for two countries and observed...

What is the need for and value of private company audits? This is an important question since countries differ as to whether they have audit requirements for private companies, even when they have financial reporting requirements for such firms. There are also disagreements as to whether audit...

Objective – The purpose of this research is to obtain empirical evidence about the factors that affect audit quality for auditors working in Public Accounting Firms in DKI Jakarta. Methodology/Technique – The independent variables used in this research are: independence, work experience,...

This study investigates the effect of auditor type (private vs. state) and increased competition in an audit market on audit report lag (ARL). This is the first study to provide evidence regarding the effect of audit market competition on ARL. Utilizing structure–conduct–performance theory,...

This study aims to contribute to an understanding of politically connected audit committees on the audit process in an emerging market, namely Malaysia. The study seeks to examine whether politically connected audit committees have an impact on the audit process. An in-depth analysis of the...

In this research note, we examine the application of three methods used to operationalize the financial restatement variable in empirical archival accounting literature. Research exploring financial reporting and audit quality often employs financial restatements as a proxy for low audit...