We study events surrounding ChuoAoyama’s failed audit of Kanebo, a large Japanese cosmetics company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC’s Japanese affiliate and one of Japan’s “Big Four” audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese Financial Services...

I examine that relationship between audit partner rotation and audit quality using 4,232 Japanese listed companies from 2003 to 2006. Firstly, I find that audit-partner rotation over seven years and lead audit-partner rotation over five years have a negative relationship with abnormal accruals...

This study provides evidence on how local office growth affects audit quality. We predict that significant recent growth will temporarily stress office resources, leading to a negative relation between office-level growth and audit quality. To test this prediction, we examine a sample of 17,062...