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The existing literature on audit opinion shopping provides inconsistent evidence on whether such shopping has any association with abnormal audit fees. In this paper, we hypothesize that firms engage in audit opinion shopping and pay an abnormal audit fee only when their degree of accounting...
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Since its foundation, China’s government auditing system has played a very important role in maintaining financial and … auditing actually helps to reduce corruption. Using China’s provincial panel data from 1999 to 2008, this paper empirically … examines the role of government auditing in China’s corruption control initiatives. Our findings indicate that the number of …
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is rare. China provides a unique setting in which to test the economic consequences of the forms of address used in audit …
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In this study, we examine whether education, as an important component of the human capital of auditors, is related to the occurrence of financial misstatement, and investigate the moderating effect of professional experience. Using a sample of 16,651 firm-year observations from the Chinese...
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’s responsibility in the U.S. versus China, describe the benefits of International Standards on Auditing (ISA), describe how culture may …
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. Using a sample of firms listed on China's A-share market from 2007 to 2017, we test the association between goodwill …
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) in China, we test the hypothesis that auditor conservatism increases with client publicity. The evidence indicates …
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This paper examines the association between abnormally long audit report lag and future stock price crash. Audit report lag is defined as the period between a company's fiscal year end and the audit report date, and is informative about audit efficiency. Although a substantial body of literature...
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Cost of capital is one of the most essential concerns in corporate finance. Anecdotal evidences and academic researches imply recent disclosure of key audit matter (KAM) required by the new audit standard may have unexpected implications on companies' cost of capital. I utilize the policy...
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In this study, we examine whether Chinese CPA firms with more partners available to perform audit engagements deliver higher quality services. Based on a sample of 2,990 company-year observations over the period 2002–2015, we find that CPA firms with smaller staff-partner ratios are associated...
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