Fedyk, Anastassia; Fedyk, Tatiana; Hodson, James; … - 2023
This paper investigates how consulting services affect audit quality, from the perspective of knowledge and expertise … employees at large U.S. public accounting firms, we document a positive effect of consulting employees on audit quality …. Specifically, a one-standard-deviation increase in the share of consulting employees in an office results in a 2.7 percentage point …