Audit firms are faced with increasing demands for audit efficiency and effectiveness. Increasing knowledge sharing in audit engagements can help them respond to this challenge, and this study seeks to advance understanding of the extent and determinants of such sharing. Data collected from auditors of two Big Four audit firms suggest that both firms have high, but far from complete, levels of k...

This paper studies the effects of quota-based labor regulations on firms in the context of Saudi Arabia’s Nitaqat program, which imposed quotas for Saudi hiring at private firms. I use a comprehensive firm-level administrative dataset and exploit kinks in hiring incentives generated by the quotas to estimate the effects of this policy. I find that the program increased native employment at subs...

While concentration measures are a good indicator of market structure, the link with competitiveness is more complex than often assumed. In particular, the modern theory of industrial organisation makes no clear statement regarding the impact of concentration on competition – the focus of this paper is concentration and no inferences are made about competitive aspects of the market. The extent ...

Single-segment (focused) firms have a natural disadvantage compared to multi-segment (diversified) with respect to voluntary disclosure policy. Since aggregate disclosures by focused firms are at a finer level of detail than those of diversified firms, the latter have greater ability to react to focused firm information and therefore have a competitive advantage. I provide evidence that focused...

the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between tax avoidance and firm value with an emphasis on agency cost and disclosure quality of firms listed in tehran stock exchange. the sample of this study consists of 68 firms for the period 2004 to 2015.this study is applied in purpose and correlation- descriptive in method. in this study to test the hypotheses, multivariate linear r...

Although theory suggests that companies would rationally select into audit even if it were not a legal requirement, many countries impose mandatory audits. This is arguably due to an audit having elements of a public good, which may result in not enough audits being purchased without regulatory intervention. The mandatory nature of public company audit has created problems for researchers wishi...

Many businesses are now moving to e-business and implementing computerized accounting information systems. This phenomenon has given impact to audit profession in performing IT audit, financial reports audit and tracing electronic source documents. Computer-Assisted-Auditing Techniques and Tools (CAATTs) are audit technologies that allow IT audit work to be performed efficiently, effectively an...