The conceptual framework of the marketing audit has been well developed by different contributors since the late 1950s. At the present time, the popular marketing textbooks and the published academic and general literature deal primarily with the theoretical and practical aspects of the marketing audit without offering any rigorous empirical justification of the practice. The teaching of the ma...

This paper documents how information technology (IT) impacts audit efforts. Using cross-sectional data on audit engagements for the 100 largest clients of an office of a leading international public accounting firm, it empirically evaluates the impact of the clients’ IT choices on their auditor’s audit effort. The results indicate that other things being equal, the higher level of automation or...

The study objects for investigating the possibility of activating both audit committee and board of directors for restricting the practices of earnings management phenomenon. To achieve this objective, a questionnaire had been developed and self-administered for a selected sample consists of 123 auditors working in Jordan based on the simple random sampling method. The study first hypothesis is...

The debate on audit quality still continues due to different results and arguments tenure, firm reputation quality. This study provides empirical evidence the differentiation of by considering tenure reputation. Using data from IDX manufacturing companies in 2019 2020, researcher examines difference quality, measured discretionary accruals, terms also 247 that are analyzed using Mann-Whitney te...

Introduction Significant changes in the auditing environment world-wide have, in recent years, led to important changes in the behaviour of market participants. The main environmental changes have been the world-wide recession, dating from approximately 1989, which led to overcapacity on the supply side of the market. These changing competitive pressures resulted in aggressive fee renegotiation...

We study the impact of transfer pricing rules on sales prices, firms’ organizational structure, and consumers’ utility within a two-country monopolistic competition model featuring source-based profit taxes that differ across countries. Firms can either become multinationals, i.e., they serve the foreign market through a fully controlled affiliate; or they can become exporters, i.e., they serve...

We analyze optimal protection when a benevolent government must maintain nonnegative domestic profits and when the domestic import-competing firm has private information about its costs. A costly audit mechanism can deter strategic manipulation of this private information. We show that a high-penalty/lowprobability of investigation is optimal when the shadow price of the firm profit is low comp...