How to survive an OSHA audit.

The relation between audit fee cuts during the economic crisis and audit quality

The economic crisis presents a unique opportunity to study how auditors respond to an exogenous shock to the clients' operating environment. Also, due to the economic crisis, some of auditors are under pressure from clients to cut audit fees during the crisis. In Iran, due to inflationary conditions, this issue manifests itself mainly in the form of an increase in auditing fees to a lesser exte...

How to survive a tax audit.

Exemption of Annual Audit for Small Companies: A Review

In Malaysia, all companies are required to have their accounts audited. However, the application of this mandatory requirement on small companies is currently under review, and the issue is whether audit firms could survive should voluntary audit be implemented. Salleh et al. (2008) surveyed the perception of small audit firms on this issue. Most of the respondents perceived that the benefits d...

The Effect of Audit Quality on Costs Stickiness in Manufacturing Companies Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange

One of the most fundamental presumptions of management audit shows that change in costs is in fir correlation with increase and decrease in activity level. However, this assumption is discussed with considering the cost stickiness by Anderson et al. it means that the amount of increase in costs with the increase in activity level is more than reduction in costs per same amount of reduction in a...

Using national hip fracture registries and audit databases to develop an international perspective.

Hip fracture is the commonest reason for older people to need emergency anaesthesia and surgery, and leads to prolonged dependence for many of those who survive. People with this injury are usually identified very early in their hospital care, so hip fracture is an ideal marker condition with which to audit the care offered to older people by health services around the world. We have reviewed t...