This study considers factors affecting to audit performance by risk-based approach (RBA) as well as audit quality in Vietnam. In addition, the study also examines the relationship between RBA and quality of independent audit firms. A descriptive survey research was adopted using both...

This study investigates the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores and dividend policies, considering the moderating role of audit quality. Based on data for Western European listed companies (leaders in ESG revolution) over the period 2010-2019, panel regression...

This material present the relation between the product series of one certain organization and quality system of its corporative communication

This paper empirically investigates the impact of the brand name of an independent auditing company on the perception of financial stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to understand how the decision making process of the financial stakeholders proceed when they are faced with financial...

Prior research suggests that Big 4 auditors provide higher quality audits by virtue of their large size. Still, the recent reforms mandated by the Sarbanes Oxley Act – by increasing client and auditor incentives for accurate reporting – may have narrowed audit quality differences across...

The following material addresses the problem from the perspective of quality audit work procedures and legislation as well as the auditor's judgment which often offer the guarantee to obtain an opinion as to mirror the reality of operations audited. Implementation of the recommendations made by...

Financial scandals of the last decade have had a negative effect upon the trust and perception of investors regarding auditor responsibility and their part in fraud and error detection. As a result of legal conditions and regulations, audit firms in some jurisdictions have recently started to...

Using a sample of firms from France, where the law requires use of two auditors, we examine the effect of auditor pair composition on overall measures of unconditional and conditional conservatism, as well as on a specific measure of conditional conservatism, i.e., impairment loss. We use game...

This study investigates the audit firm’s decision to protect its partners’ personal assets by becoming a limited liability partnership (LLP). We find that the likelihood of an audit firm switching from unlimited to limited liability is increasing in its size and exposure to litigation risk....