scholarly journals Does Auditor Tenure Improve Audit Quality? Moderating Effects of Industry Specialization and Fee Dependence

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hun-Tong Tan ◽  
Chee Yeow Lim
Keyword(s):  
Audit Quality ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Industry Specialization ◽  
Auditor Tenure

scholarly journals What Determines Incumbent Auditors Information Systems Design And Implementation Consulting Fees?

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Ho Young Lee
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Auditor Independence ◽  
Information Systems Design ◽  
Industry Specialization ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Consulting Services ◽  
Auditor Tenure

This study examines determinants of demand for incumbent auditors information systems design and implementation consulting services. While there was no evidence on how the services may affect auditor independence, opponents of allowing the service argue that auditors who provide the financial information systems consulting services may lower audit quality, reducing investor confidence in markets. The results indicate that while R&D expenditures, auditors industry specialization, and auditor tenure are positively associated with demand for the information systems consulting, there is no evidence that accounting discretion and audit committee effectiveness are associated with demand for the information systems consulting.

scholarly journals The Effect of Overvalued Equity on the Relationship between Audit Quality and Earning Quality (Evidence from Iran)

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
Seyed Kazem Ebrahimie ◽  
Ali Bahraminasab ◽  
Fatemeh Khorram
Keyword(s):  
Audit Quality ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Industry Specialization ◽  
Audit Firm ◽  
Auditor Industry Specialization ◽  
Auditor Tenure ◽  
Reverse Relationship ◽  
Earning Quality ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of overvalued equity on the relationship between audit quality and earning quality. In this article audit firm size, auditor industry specialization and auditor tenure were used as audit quality variable. The sample population consists of 189 companies listed in Tehran stock Exchange during the period 2008 to 2012. To test the hypotheses, OLS in Eviews has been used and investigation method of data is panel. The results show a reverse relationship between all audit quality variables and absolute discretionary accruals indicating that high audit quality causes higher earning quality. But the existence of overvalued equity cause decreasing or reversing of these relationships, in other words, when a firm is highly valued the accruals’ decreasing effect of high quality auditors is reduced.

scholarly journals Workload, Tenure Auditor and Industrial Specialization Auditors on Audit Quality with Audit Committee as Moderating

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.34) ◽  
pp. 257
Author(s):  
Daniel T. H. Manurung ◽  
Andhika Ligar Hardika ◽  
Yati Mulyati ◽  
Mohd Haizam Mohd Saudi
Keyword(s):  
Audit Committee ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Industry Specialization ◽  
Moderating Variables ◽  
Auditor Industry Specialization ◽  
Auditor Tenure ◽  
Industrial Specialization ◽  
Study Population

This study aims to obtain empirical evidence on audit quality on workload, auditor tenure and auditor industry specialization with the audit committee as a moderating variable. The study population was conducted on non-financial companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, a total sample of 10 companies research using purposive sampling. The research method uses moderating variables. The results of this study indicate that the workload affects audit quality while audit tenure and auditor industry specialization do not affect audit quality. This study found evidence that the interaction between workload and audit committee affects audit quality while the interaction of audit tenure and industry specialization does not affect audit quality.   

scholarly journals Audit Quality and Earnings Management in the Tunisian Context

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zgarni Inaam ◽  
Hlioui Khmoussi ◽  
Zehri Fatma
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Industry Specialization ◽  
Securities Law ◽  
Auditor Industry Specialization ◽  
Auditor Tenure ◽  
Big 4 ◽  
Financial Securities

In this study, we test the effect of the implementation of the financial security law (n° 2005-96) and the audit quality (Big 4 auditors, auditor industry specialization and audit tenure) on constraining the extent of real and accruals based earnings management in the Tunisian context. Using 319 firm-year observations during the period 2000-2010, our results suggest that auditor industry specialization and Big 4 auditors associated with lower levels of accruals earnings management. We also find that the Big 4 auditors enhance the extent of real earnings management (REM). Further, we document that longer auditor tenure is not associated with greater real and accruals earnings management. Finally, our findings suggest that the adoption of the financial securities law of 2005 is not effective on reducing earnings management in the Tunisian context.

Auditor Industry Specialization and Earnings Quality

2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Balsam ◽  
Jagan Krishnan ◽  
Joon S. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Audit Quality ◽  
Earnings Quality ◽  
Discretionary Accruals ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Brand Name ◽  
Absolute Level ◽  
Industry Specialization ◽  
Earnings Response Coefficients ◽  
Auditor Industry Specialization ◽  
Earnings Response

This study examines the association between measures of earnings quality and auditor industry specialization. Prior work has examined the association between auditor brand name and earnings quality, using auditor brand name to proxy for audit quality. Recent work has hypothesized that auditor industry specialization also contributes to audit quality. Extending this literature, we compare the absolute level of discretionary accruals (DAC) and earnings response coefficients (ERC) of firms audited by industry specialists with those of firms not audited by industry specialists. We restrict our study to clients of Big 6 (and later Big 5) auditors to control for brand name. Because industry specialization is unobservable, we use multiple proxies for it. After controlling for variables established in prior work to be related to DAC and the ERC, we find clients of industry specialist auditors have lower DAC and higher ERC than clients of nonspecialist auditors. This finding is consistent with clients of industry specialists having higher earnings quality than clients of nonspecialists.

Clients' Expectations on Audit Judgments: A Note

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venkataraman M. Iyer ◽  
Dasaratha V. Rama
Keyword(s):  
Audit Quality ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Relative Power ◽  
Client Perceptions ◽  
Audit Firm ◽  
Auditor Tenure ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Nonaudit Services ◽  
The Impact

Audited financial statements can be viewed as the product of negotiations between a company's management and its auditor. Relative power of these two parties is a major factor that determines the outcome of the negotiation. This study examines the impact of auditor tenure, importance of a client to an audit partner, nonaudit purchases, and prior audit firm experience of client personnel on client perceptions about their ability to persuade the auditor in the context of an accounting disagreement. We obtained responses to a survey from 124 CPAs in industry who are employed as CEOs, CFOs, controllers, or treasurers. Our results indicate that respondents from companies with short auditor tenures were somewhat more likely to indicate that they could persuade the auditor to accept their (client's) position in case of a disagreement. This finding is consistent with the argument that auditors are susceptible to influence in the early years as they are still in the process of recouping start-up costs, but is not consistent with concerns expressed by legislators and others that long auditor tenures will adversely affect audit quality. Respondents who believed their business was more important for the audit partner were also more likely to believe that they could persuade the auditor. However, the purchase of nonaudit services and prior audit experience were not related to client's perceptions about their ability to persuade the auditor.

Auditor Tenure and the Timeliness of Misstatement Discovery

2017 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zvi Singer ◽  
Jing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Client Engagement ◽  
Audit Firm ◽  
Auditor Tenure ◽  
Sarbanes Oxley ◽  
Auditor Change ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Extended Analysis ◽  
Arthur Andersen

ABSTRACT Using the timeliness of misstatement discovery as a proxy for audit quality, we examine the association between audit firm tenure and audit quality in a setting that alleviates the endogeneity problem endemic to this line of research. We find that longer audit firm tenure leads to less timely discovery and correction of misstatements, which is consistent with a negative effect of long auditor tenure on audit quality. In addition, using the non-voluntary auditor change following the demise of Arthur Andersen in 2002 as a natural experiment, we show that the misstatements of its former clients were discovered faster than those of comparable companies that retained their auditors throughout the misstatement. This finding speaks to the benefit of a fresh look by a new auditor. An extended analysis shows that longer auditor tenure also leads to misstatements of greater magnitudes, and that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has mitigated, but not eliminated, the negative effect of long auditor tenure. Last, we show that the negative association between auditor tenure and timely discovery of misstatements is mainly present in the first ten years of an audit engagement. Our study has implications for regulators who continue to express concern regarding lengthy auditor-client engagement. JEL Classifications: K22; K23; L51; M41; M42; M48.

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