This paper investigates how political connections in concert with related party transactions (RPTs) determine auditor choice in Indonesia. Our study is motivated by conflicting findings in the literature on whether politically connected firms appoint reputable auditors (Big 4 auditors). On one...

This paper investigates the effect of related-party transactions (RPTs) on audit fees in China. RPTs may violate the arm's-length assumption of regular market-based transactions, impairing the representational faithfulness and verifiability of accounting data and, as a consequence, increase...

Purpose-This study investigates the association between IFRS effort due to higher levels of material adjustments and audit fees. In addition, this paper tests whether these associations differ between industry specialist auditors and non-specialist auditors. Design/Methodology/Approach- We...