Prior research has documented the continued existence of an expectation gap, defined as the divergence between the public's and the profession's conceptions of auditor's duties, despite the auditing profession's attempt to adopt standards and practices to close this gap. In this paper, we...

Ethics has been identified as an important factor that can affect auditors' professional skepticism For example, prior research finds that auditors who are more concerned with professional ethics exhibit greater professional skepticism. Further, the literature suggests that professional...

Regulatory responses to the business failures of 1998-2001 framed them as a general failure of governance and ethics rather than as firm-specific problems. Among the regulatory responses are Section 406 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SEC, and exchange requirements to provide a Code of Ethics. However,...

This paper investigates whether client engagement risks lengthen the client acceptance phase for audit firms and result in a longer auditor search period for their clients. Using a sample of auditor resignations over the period 2003-2008, we document that the auditor search period is longer for...

Recent years have featured a leap in academic and public interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and related corporate reporting. Two main themes in this literature are the exploration of management incentives to engage in and disclose this information, and of the use and...