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And then there were four: a study of UK market concentration - causes, consequences and the scope for market adjustment [PDF]
, 2003 While concentration measures are a good indicator of market structure, the link with competitiveness is more complex than often assumed. In particular, the modern theory of industrial organisation makes no clear statement regarding the impact of ...
Goodacre, Alan +5 more
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the “digital turn” in value chain due diligence, focusing on how emerging digital tools and technologies are reshaping the practice and politics of stakeholder engagement in transnational labor governance. As value chain legislation—most notably the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)—extends ...
Klaas Hendrik Eller, Antoine Duval
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The PCAOB posits that audit partner and manager involvement, primarily through greater supervision and review (“oversight”) of audit engagements, is an important determinant and indicator of audit quality. We test this notion by empirically examining the link between staffing leverage, as measured by an office's ratio of audit partners and ...
Joshua A. Khavis +2 more
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent AICPA surveys indicate disproportionate attrition among Black professionals attaining partnership in US public accounting firms, underscoring the need to better understand their experiences. Despite repeated calls for examination, understanding of these experiences remains limited, partly due to the difficulty in accessing the few Black
Jennifer Joe +2 more
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THE PRICING OF AUDIT SERVICES: EVIDENCE FROM ROMANIA [PDF]
The main objective of this study is to investigate factors influencing theamount of external audit fees in Romania. Of particular interest is the examination ofthe potential effect of the client size, client complexity, and the size of the audit firmon ...
Oana - Raluca Iosivan, Atanasiu Pop
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Abacus, EarlyView.We investigate the effects of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB) international inspection access on the value of cash holdings for non‐US companies. Utilizing a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) research design, we find that investors assign significantly higher value to a non‐US company's cash holdings when the company's non‐US ...
Hsiao‐Tang Hsu, Huichi Huang, Yutao Li
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An Investigation into Audit Quality in Libya [PDF]
There are a number of audited companies in Libya which have gone into bankruptcy between 1995 and 2005. Therefore, there is a significant question about the audit quality situation in Libya.
Agbara, Abdelmeneim Hassan
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Audit fees and asset securitization risks [PDF]
, 2013 The thesis investigates “where were the auditors in asset securitizations”, a criticism of the audit profession before and after the onset of the global financial crisis (GFC).
Zhang, Yuyu
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Auditor industry expertise and the predictive power of the deferred tax valuation allowance
Accounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 323-364, March 2025.Abstract This paper investigates whether auditor industry expertise influences the predictive value of management earnings forecasts embedded in the deferred tax asset valuation allowance (VA). VAs depend on management's forecast of future taxable earnings and can provide investors with information about expected changes in future earnings.
Zhuoli Axelton +2 more
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Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between ESG rating divergence and corporate excess cash holdings, employing a sample of Chinese A‐share listed companies from 2015 to 2021. Our findings reveal a significant positive relationship between ESG rating divergence and firms' excess cash holdings, a conclusion robust to various sensitivity ...
Qun Cao +3 more
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