This paper examines the economic consequences of tightening auditing standards. We recognize that both auditors’ incentives and expertise are relevant for audit effectiveness. On one hand, tighter auditing standards counter the misbehavior of rogue auditors. On the other hand, tighter standards restrict auditors’exercise of professional judgement, leads to auditors’compliance mentality, and red...

this study aims at investigating the impacts of mandatory audit firm rotation (mafr) on audit fees and audit market compeition among firms listed on tehran stock exchange (tse). since 2007 firms listed on tse are not allowed to use services of any single audit firm for more than 4 consecutive years. we tested our hypotheses using multivariate regression analysis and mean comparison test. our sa...

This paper explores the importance of audit firm characteristics and the factors motivating auditor change based on questionnaire responses from 210 listed UK companies (a response rate of 70%). Twenty-nine potentially desirable auditor characteristics are identified from the extant literature and their importance elicited. Exploratory factor analysis reduces these variables to eight uncorrelat...

Abstract: This research purpose to obtain empirical evidence regarding factor that has an influence on audit quality, such as the firm reputation, tenure and auditor switching with fees moderating. Company of manufacturing consumer goods industry sector listed Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in 2015-2019 are used population this study. Used 115 samples wich determined by purposive sampling techn...

This study analyzes the pricing of auditors’ business risk in the first year of an audit engagement. We posit that reportable events from the prior auditor’s tenure that are disclosed in the 8-K auditor change filing provide reliable information about the level of business risk for the incoming auditor. We hypothesize that for clients perceived as risky, the incoming auditor charges a fee-premi...