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This study investigates whether corporate governance characteristics, mandated by the Corporate Governance Best-Practice Principles (CGBPP) for companies listed in Taiwan, are associated with earnings management. In particular, we examine whether the independence, financial expertise, and...
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We use a self-selection model to examine differences in audit fees between purchasers and non-purchasers of nonaudit services for a sample of 165 Michigan governmental units. Understanding the relationship between audit fees and nonaudit fees is important because nonaudit services potentially...
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This study examines the extent of downward auditor switches from Big 4 audit firms by nonprofit organizations (NPOs) after enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Although SOX provisions do not directly apply to nonprofit organizations, capacity constraints and client realignments due to SOX...
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We study auditors' client risk management in the first year of SOX 404 implementation, and find that there exists a pecking order among auditors' strategies to manage control risk resulting from internal control weaknesses. We first examine the relations between internal control weaknesses and...
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Changes in the audit industry after Sarbanes-Oxley have potentially changed the nature and extent of audit sampling in the largest accounting firms. However, little academic evidence exists on current audit sampling policies in place at the largest accounting firms (Elder et al. 2013). As such,...
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This study examines the relation between auditor risk assessments and sample size decisions for a sample of 235 audit sampling applications from 64 audits of medium-sized companies performed by three large accounting firms. Auditors relied on controls and assessed inherent risk below the maximum...
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