Auditors Under Fire: The Association Between Audit Errors and the Career Setbacks of Individual Auditors

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چکیده

This paper examines whether and how individual auditors are disciplined for audit errors. Taking advantage of the long history auditor identity data from China, we find that signing with client restatements likely to lose privilege reports public clients. However, can avoid this consequence by issuing a modified opinion warn potential misstatement. We show more be when their firms operate in less concentrated markets. Finally, positive outcomes disciplinary action firms. Firms discipline have larger decrease rate increase market share, compared nondisciplining Their clients higher earnings response coefficient after action. In summary, our results suggest China face career setbacks they produce poor quality audits.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Accounting Research

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['0021-8456', '1475-679X']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-679x.12399