This paper examines the impact of accounting conservatism and auditing conservatism on earnings quality. Four proxies were used to measure earnings quality; persistence, accrual quality, value relevance and smoothness. We use the published annual reports of all the listed firms in the Muscat...

Supply chain management has emerged as one of the more important topics in managerial accounting. The importance of information exchange between parties involved in supply chains has also been well documented. By addressing the value of audits in this setting, this theoretical paper serves to...

The objective of this study is to ascertain the determinants of audit quality with a focus on healthcare firms listed on the floor of Nigeria Stock Exchange from 2010-2016. This study made use of secondary data obtained from fact books, annual reports and account of selected healthcare firms...

The minimization of cost is an important issue in the domain of continuous auditing (CA) research (Pathak, Chaouch amp; Sriram, 2005). This cited study of continuous audit of databases motivated us to work further and provide a general, complete and precise solution. In the present study, we...

Through a cross sectional and time series analysis the paper provides a comparative investigation of audited versus non-audited performance indicators in term of incremental information content to assess future share price of European listed companies. Net Operating Profit expressed by EBIT and...

Purpose - To constitute and test a framework of factors that might affect auditors' perceptions of the work needed to audit internet-based financial reports (IBFR). Methodology/Approach - The study conducts a questionnaire on practicing auditors from audit firms in Egypt in the year 2007 to...

We study the role of reputation in auditor-client matching. Using 1.2 million employment records from US broker-dealers, we find that broker-dealer clients of the same auditor have similar financial adviser misconduct profiles. Our estimates indicate that variation in client misconduct behavior...

We find that Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) had two significant effects on the audit market for nonpublic entities. The first short-run effect stems from inelastic labor supply coupled with an audit demand shock from public companies. As a result, private companies reduced their use of attested financial...

This paper examines whether the financial reporting quality of audit clients is affected more by the national culture of the home country of an international parent audit firm or the national culture of its affiliates' host country. The study uses 111,949 firm-year observations for 16,444 unique...

This is the first large-scale academic study evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on the accounting profession. We find that physical restrictions and economic hardships resulting from COVID-19 impeded accountants’ productivity, ability to perform their work, ability to maintain relationships...