This study investigates the economic auditor-client dependency issue by examining the association between abnormal audit fee pricing and audit quality. Our study is the first to analyze this phenomenon empirically for the institutional setting of German IFRS firms by using a sample of 2,334...

Prüfungshonorare stellen für Unternehmen Kosten dar. Daher ist es für die Unternehmen von großem Interesse, welche Faktoren diese Honorare beeinflussen. Um die Determinanten für deutsche börsennotierte Medienunternehmen zu ermitteln, wird eine empirische lineare Regressionsanalyse...

The materiality principle supports the information function of financial accounting as to what information could usefully be published to enhance investors' decisions. Therefore, materiality guides the entity preparing the accounts to present relevant financial information and to prevent...

We investigate whether audit reforms affect the information role of audits in a country where the audit traditionally serves a statutory reporting function. Specifically, we investigate the audit market effects of audit reforms mandated by the German government in the Act on Control and...

Zur Ermittlung der Kompensationsleistung bei aktienrechtlichen Strukturmaßnahmen (z.B. Squeeze-out) ist der Unternehmens- bzw. Anteilswert zu ermitteln. Hierfür wird nahezu ausschließlich das Ertragswertverfahren angewandt. Als problematisch gilt hierbei unter anderem die Prognoseunsicherheit...

The objective of this paper is to examine the risk-related premiums of disclosed audit fees in the Austrian and German markets for audit services. The idea of the paper is to determine a risk-free, entity-specific audit fee. By comparing this fee with the disclosed audit fee, we determine...

We investigate the impact of three German audit market characteristics on audit and non-audit fees for the years 2005-2007. We find no relation between audit and non-audit fees, which suggests that audit and non-audit fee determination in Germany does not indicate any particular impairment of...

Nowadays, one of the final aims of the institutions working on transparency and standardization of financial statements, and the publication of standards related to the profession of accounting & auditing has been to put into practice a uniform global set of standards which will be applicable in...

We study the empirical relation between audit fees and governance mechanisms in Germany. Using data from German listed companies, we examine the German governance setting with its two-tier board system. Various model specifications control for potential endogeneity of the governance variables....