Evidence About Discipline Committees and Professional Misconduct of Auditors*,‡
Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Self‐regulating professions establish professional discipline processes to determine whether members' behavior falls short of expectations outlined in their respective codes of conduct and to determine appropriate sanctions when necessary. From an auditing perspective, audit quality is of primary interest to audit researchers, yet few prior ...
Devan Mescall +2 more
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Audit Quality From a Service Perspective: A Systematic Literature Review
Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Audit quality is a multidimensional and latent construct that researchers struggle to evaluate and interpret. This paper follows an interdisciplinary approach by systematically reviewing the literature on audit quality evaluation from a service quality perspective.
Lise Muriel Botha +3 more
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A Systematic Review of Government-Led Free Caesarean Section Policies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries from 2009 to 2025. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel)Adepoju VA, Abdulrahim A, Adnani QES.
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article studies how the mandatory disclosure of audit risk and targeted regulatory inspections influence audit quality. We develop a model in which the auditor tests a firm's internal control over financial reporting before auditing the financial report and must issue an opinion on both.
Kyungha Lee, Rahul Menon
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines whether lenders' risk preferences explain the use of cost‐synergy adjustments in loan contracts. These adjustments represent an aggressive accounting choice that permits borrowers to add expected cost savings and synergy gains from mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings to contractual earnings. Using novel data from loan
Shushu Jiang
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Delineating trajectories of alcohol consumption and alcohol problems from adolescence to young adulthood: An integrated assessment of genetic, familial, and psychosocial factors. [PDF]
Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken)Cheng HG +3 more
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Navigating uncertainty in life cycle assessment‐based approaches to biodiversity footprinting
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract The use of life cycle assessment (LCA) methods is rapidly expanding as a means of estimating the biodiversity impacts of organisations across complex value chains. However, these methods have limitations and substantial uncertainties, which are rarely communicated in the results of LCAs.
Talitha Bromwich +15 more
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Implementation strategies for embedding patient-reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs/PREMs) in routine care: secondary analysis of an umbrella review. [PDF]
J Patient Rep OutcomesFontaine G +5 more
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Abacus, EarlyView.This paper develops a framework for understanding how key audit matters (KAMs) can be factored into investors’ risk assessments. Detailed interviews with seasoned investors representing international and regional asset managers and owners confirm that the number and type of reported KAMs are not ‘priced’ directly.
Warren Maroun +2 more
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Exploring the Materiality of Data Breach Disclosures on the Australian Stock Exchange
Abacus, EarlyView.This study examines Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) data breach announcements to provide insights into the extent and nature of data breach disclosures, as well as the costs, particularly to stakeholder relationships. Using a dataset of all data breach‐related announcements on the ASX, we identify a lack of data breach disclosure and, where disclosures
Jane Andrew +3 more
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