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An Empirical Investigation of Audit Fees, Nonaudit Fees, and Audit Committees*
Contemporary Accounting Research, 2003AbstractThis study examines the association between audit committee characteristics and the ratio of nonaudit service (NAS) fees to audit fees, using data gathered under the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) fee disclosure rules. Issues related to NAS fees have been of concern to practitioners, regulators, and academics for a number of years.
Lawrence J. Abbott +3 more
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Accrual reversals and audit fees: the role of abnormal audit fees
Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, 2016AbstractThis study examines whether abnormal audit fees impair auditor independence or reflect auditors’ efforts by using accruals reversal. All accruals must ultimately reverse, but those reversals have different effects on earnings persistence. Management may communicate the private information by different kinds of accruals. Therefore, auditors that
Fang-Chi Lin +2 more
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Board Characteristics and Audit Fees*
Contemporary Accounting Research, 2000AbstractThis paper examines the relations between three board characteristics (independence, diligence, and expertise) and Big 6 audit fees for Fortune 1000 companies. To protect its reputation capital, avoid legal liability, and promote shareholder interests, a more independent, diligent, and expert board may demand differentially higher audit quality
Carcello, Joseph V. +3 more
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Fee Pressure and Audit Quality
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011Abstract This study investigates the association of audit fee pressure with an inverse measure of audit quality, misstatements in audited data, during the recent recession. Fee pressure in a year is measured as the difference between benchmark “normal” audit fees and actual audit fees.
Michael Ettredge +2 more
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Audit Committee Connectedness and Audit Fees
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020The study examines the effect of audit committees connectedness, measured using network centrality from social network theory, on audit fees. We also test the effect of the same on audit quality and audit timeliness. We find that network centrality measures of audit committees are positively and significantly associated with audit fees.
Md. Shariful Islam +3 more
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Abnormal Audit Fee and Audit Quality
AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory, 2012SUMMARY This study tests the hypotheses that below-normal audit fees signal important nuances in the balance of bargaining power between the auditor and the client, and that such power may ultimately influence audit quality. We find that audit quality, proxied by absolute discretionary accruals and meeting or beating analysts' earnings ...
Sharad C. Asthana, Jeff P. Boone
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Audit quality, audit fees and gender
2012 International Conference on Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering, 2012This paper investigates the impact of the gender of auditors on audit quality and audit fees from microscopic level. We use a unique sample of listed companies in China, where audit reports must be audited and certified in the name of two signing certified public accountants as well as in the name of an audit firm.
null Wei Li, null Dan Shi
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Audit committee effectiveness and the audit fee
European Accounting Review, 1996The UK is the only major country within the European Union the majority of whose listed companies have formed audit committees composed of non-executive directors to monitor financial reporting, the external auditors, and internal control strength. The adoption of audit committees in contrast to the approach in Europe has arisen despite the lack of ...
Paul Collier, Alan Gregory
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Audit Opinion and Disclosure of Audit Fees
Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, 2009Dye (1991) suggests that when audit fees are disclosed, auditor independence will he improved because there are no quasi-rents to influence audit opinion and the public could assess the independence of the auditors. According to DeAngelo (1981a), however, disclosure of audit fees is irrelevant to the issuance of audit opinion because transaction costs,
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
We document in this study that high religious environment in which auditors operate have a significant impact on their behavior, resulting in lower audit risk and lower audit effort, and hence lower audit fees. Our findings show that there is a significantly negative association between audit fees and religiosity values of counties in which auditors ...
Bikki Jaggi, Hua Xin
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We document in this study that high religious environment in which auditors operate have a significant impact on their behavior, resulting in lower audit risk and lower audit effort, and hence lower audit fees. Our findings show that there is a significantly negative association between audit fees and religiosity values of counties in which auditors ...
Bikki Jaggi, Hua Xin
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