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Auditing has an important role in the corporate governance process and is essential in ensuring confidence in the reliability of financial information. It is important to understand the reasons why, given the costs involved, companies change their auditor and choose a particular level of audit...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of ethnicity on auditor choice for Malaysian listed … behaviour, particularly ethnicity of auditor and ethnicity of management, using a logistic regression analysis approach for 300 …, complexity, and financial risk, lending support to the findings of previous survey studies. Ethnicity was found to be a …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of ethnicity on auditor choice for Malaysian listed … behaviour, particularly ethnicity of auditor and ethnicity of management, using a logistic regression analysis approach for 300 …, complexity, and financial risk, lending support to the findings of previous survey studies. Ethnicity was found to be a …
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of auditor workload compression on the likelihood of changes to the busy season client portfolio of an audit firm. We find evidence of a positive association between workload compression and the likelihood of changes to the constituents of...
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In case of a takeover, the acquiring firm has to choose whether to retain the acquired firm’s incumbent auditor or to switch to its own auditor. In the current paper, we explore the drivers of auditor switching by the acquired firm after a takeover among a sample of Belgian takeovers....
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This study examines the auditor switch effect on share prices among listed companies in Malaysia, mainly the Second Board companies during economic crisis and the economic growth period. Data on companies listed on the KLSE that reported switching of auditors were gathered from the respective...
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The study investigates the relationship between auditing services provided to 213 listed firms over a period from 1996 to 2000 by reputable (or tier 1) and non-reputable (non-tier 1) audit firms and the initial returns at listing. We use market adjusted initial return to reflect the firm’s...
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