Audit quality is a much studied issue. Recently, various auditing researchers have looked at the idea that audit quality may be systematically related to the auditor being male or female. Although this seams a genuine research question, the approach adopted by these researchers (incorporating...

Using a sample of U.S. firms spanning 2001-2008, we examine whether female directors or nonexecutive female directors or female audit committee members affect auditor choice and audit effort measured by audit fees. After correcting for selectivity bias and controlling for other known board, firm...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether auditor gender has an impact on the magnitude of corporate earnings management in small and medium-sized private Finnish firms. Our results concerning gender differences in audit practices are twofold. First, when we regress the absolute...

The purpose of this article is to reflect on the corpus of gender research in accounting journals, with the overall aim of evaluating the extent to which it has contributed to our understanding of the organization of accounting, and its social and organizational functions. A critical analysis...

Using a sample of Portuguese audit firms and their client companies, this study examines the association between gender composition of the partnership structure of audit firms and audit quality. Audit quality is measured through the earnings quality of audit clients. We find that gender...

This study investigates the salary differentials between male and female employees of audit firms in Taiwan. We employ the transcendental logarithmic (translog) revenue function to estimate the productivities of employees and then compare them with compensations of employees. Total samples are...

This paper documents the auditing profession’s gender salary gap in a setting where the overall society consists of a high degree of gender equality. Using Swedish administrative data from 2007 to 2015 for all CPAs, I find that the auditing profession’s overall gender salary gap has...

Prior experimental research has documented a potential impact of auditor gender on audit judgement, auditor behavior and decision making. Using a unique data set of 10 286 firm-year observations of auditor gender, this study examines whether a particular characteristic of the auditor- the...

Most audit fieldwork is not conducted by a single auditor but by a team of auditors. Researchers have, however, focused heavily on the judgment and decision-making of individual auditors, ignoring the multi-person reality in which auditors have to make judgments and decisions. This study...

Women are still a minority in the audit profession, especially at the partner level. An increasing amount of literature has explored the sources of this gender inequality. Past studies have, however, neglected the possibility that the processes that lead to the (re)production of gender...