this study investigates relation between accruals quality and auditor selection in the listed firms of tehran stock exchange (tse) during a five-year period from 2007 to 2011.  using correlation method and logistic regression technique, the results of this study indicate that client size, management change and accruals quality impact on selection of the big audit firms.  the results of this res...

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...

journal of accounting advances (j.a.a) vol. 5, no. 1, 2013, ser. 64/3     extended abstract   monitoring role of auditing and corporate dividend payout policies   dr. v. khodadadi              s. hajizadeh               r. ghorbani shahid chamran university of ahvaz   introduction the aim of this paper is to investigate the relation between monitoring role of independent auditing and corporate ...

The purpose of this study was to an investigation of financing costs factors on the auditor's qualified report in companies listed in Tehran stock exchange. The criteria considered in this study were the audit firm size, auditor's specialization in the partner level, auditor's selection tenure and audit fees. For this purpose, five hypotheses were developed and data related to 85 companies of T...

Audit market concentration causes to decrease the scope of companies' au-thorities for selecting the audit institutions but instead it increases the power of auditors' market that it turns, leads to a decrease in quality and an increase in auditors' stress. The purpose of the present research is to study the effect of audit market concentration on auditors's job stress and audit quality of Tehr...

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 ...