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Book Synopsis Issues in Examining the Effect of Auditor Litigation on Audit Fees by : Miguel Minutti-Meza
Download or read book Issues in Examining the Effect of Auditor Litigation on Audit Fees written by Miguel Minutti-Meza and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large body of research has studied audit fees aiming to determine whether they reflect auditors' response to clients' risks, auditors' expertise, competitive pressures in the audit market, and independence issues between auditors and clients. Badertscher, Jorgensen, Katz, and Kinney [2014] study the effect of auditor litigation risk on audit fees. Litigation risk is expected to be a strong incentive for auditors to deliver high quality audits and an important determinant of audit fees. Nevertheless, determining the impact of litigation risk is complicated because although there is considerable variation in audit fees, there are scarce opportunities to examine variation in litigation risk. This paper provides a brief summary of extant studies examining the effect of auditor litigation on audit fees, and discusses research design issues and future research opportunities in this area.
Book Synopsis The Implications of Alternative Litigation Cost Allocation Systems for the Value of Audits by : Ping Zhang
Download or read book The Implications of Alternative Litigation Cost Allocation Systems for the Value of Audits written by Ping Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an auditor's effort is not observable, auditor liability becomes an important mechanism for motivating the auditor to exert an appropriate level of audit effort. However, while the presence of legal liability helps to preserve the value of an audit to investors, some aspects of the liability system may motivate sub-optimal behaviour and perhaps, ultimately, detract from investors' welfare. This paper seeks to contribute to the analysis of litigation- related issues by examining the effects of alternative legal cost allocation systems--the so-called American versus British rules--on the value of audits. Using a game theoretic model, the paper characterizes investors' and an auditor's equilibrium strategies in pre- trial negotiation and the auditor's effort decisions. The paper finds that the American system (where the parties pay their own litigation costs) provides a higher audit value than the British system (where the loser of a case pays the winner's litigation costs) while the auditor's total expected costs are higher in the American system than in the British system.
Download or read book Auditor Litigation written by Sean Cao and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Litigation poses a significant business risk for auditors. We argue that auditors learn from other auditors' litigation events and examine the consequences of such events for future accounting misstatements. Using a hand-collected sample of auditor litigation events, we find a significant subsequent decrease in misstatement frequency in within-industry audits conducted by auditors who did not face litigation. This industry-based across-auditor effect is further supported (a) by an increase in audit fees; (b) an increase in auditor going concern opinions; and (c) is robust to a battery of controls including the use of a difference-in-difference approach. By showing that auditor litigation leads to lower, rather than higher, misstatements across an industry, the findings expand our understanding of misstatement contagion evidenced in other studies. We find no evidence of region-based across-auditor learning. Overall, this study, by demonstrating a deterrence effect of litigation for non-sued entities significantly enhances the impact of litigation beyond just the sued entity.
Book Synopsis Auditor Litigation by : Sebahattin Demirkan
Download or read book Auditor Litigation written by Sebahattin Demirkan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study extends the Palmrose and Scholz (2004) general litigation and general restatements study by focusing on auditor litigation and revenue restatements. We investigate all potential accounting issues, individually, instead of by their group method, with regard to auditor litigation. The impact of the individual accounting issues implicated in restatements is of concern to auditors and audit standard setters in gauging auditor litigation risk and audit risk. It also is important for financial analysis and securities valuation because investors' losses are greater, and recovery of losses on a percentage basis lower, when the auditor is a defendant, and especially when the auditor has a more severe, negative litigation experience (Commolli et al. 2012). We examine financial reporting lawsuits filed from 2001 through 2008 and find that revenue restatements - far more than any other kind of restatements - are associated with auditors being named defendants and also auditors experiencing a more severe, negative outcome in the litigation.
Book Synopsis The Effects of Auditor Dismissals and Resignations on Audit Fees by : Paul A. Griffin
Download or read book The Effects of Auditor Dismissals and Resignations on Audit Fees written by Paul A. Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper assesses the effects of auditor dismissals and resignations on audit fees and, in particular, whether companies pay more or less for their audits around these events. We also test the hypotheses that the fee discount around a dismissal can be explained by the benefits of auditor incumbency and the fee premium around a resignation varies in relation to the additional audit effort and litigation risk of the incoming auditor. We base our study on a comprehensive sample of audit fee disclosures made by SEC registrants during fiscal years 2000 to 2004, so that our study period includes auditor changes before and after the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) legislation. For dismissals, we find that not only does the successor auditor discount fees, and in a way that supports our discounting hypothesis, but also that fees are discounted one year before the auditor change by the incumbent auditor, consistent with the view that the threat of a dismissal may influence fees. For resignations, fees are higher one year before and after the event indicating that both the incumbent and incoming auditor charge a premium around a resignation, possibly because the new auditor needs to cope with greater than normal litigation risk and/or audit effort. SOX appears not to have affected discounting around a dismissal, but the fee premium around a resignation increases following the legislation, consistent with our resignation hypothesis. We also find that non-audit fees are discounted around a dismissal, and this result too appears to be unchanged by SOX.
Book Synopsis The Auditor's Objectivity Under a Negligence Liability System by : Ping Zhang
Download or read book The Auditor's Objectivity Under a Negligence Liability System written by Ping Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an auditor's effort is not observable, auditor liability becomes an important mechanism for motivating the auditor to exert an appropriate level of audit effort. However, while the presence of legal liability helps to preserve the value of an audit to investors, some aspects of the liability system may motivate sub-optimal behaviour and perhaps, ultimately, detract from investors' welfare. This paper seeks to contribute to the analysis of litigation-related issues by examining the effects of alternative legal cost allocation systems - the so-called American versus British rules, on the value of audits. Using a game theoretic model, the paper characterizes investors and an auditor's equilibrium strategies in pre-trial negotiation and the auditor's effort decisions. The paper finds that the American system (where the parties pay their own litigation costs) provides a higher audit value than the British system (where the loser of a case pays the winner's litigation cost) while the auditor's total expected costs are higher in the American system than in the British system.
Book Synopsis Interpretive Guidance and Financial Reporting Costs by : Dain C. Donelson
Download or read book Interpretive Guidance and Financial Reporting Costs written by Dain C. Donelson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the effect of interpretive accounting guidance on a direct and observable cost of financial reporting: audit fees. Many contend that U.S. GAAP has too much interpretive guidance, making it complex and difficult to assimilate. This effect would lead to higher audit effort and higher fees. However, specific guidance could both lower litigation risk and increase audit efficiency by reducing the need for auditors to continually deliberate complicated accounting issues across engagements. These effects would lead to lower audit fees. Overall, using both levels and changes regressions, we find that interpretive accounting guidance is associated with higher audit fees. However, this effect is smallest for firms facing the highest ex-ante litigation risk. Finally, we examine whether increased audit fees persist and find that the audit fee effect disappears by the third year after the interpretive guidance becomes effective. Overall, we find no evidence that interpretive guidance decreases audit costs.
Book Synopsis Demand for Audit Services, and the Effects of Auditor's Legal Liability on the Audit Quality and the Firm's Production Decisions by : Deokheon Lee
Download or read book Demand for Audit Services, and the Effects of Auditor's Legal Liability on the Audit Quality and the Firm's Production Decisions written by Deokheon Lee and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Litigation Against Auditors by : Dain C. Donelson
Download or read book Litigation Against Auditors written by Dain C. Donelson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auditors are subject to litigation exposure under federal securities laws and under state law. Research into auditors' liability under federal securities laws tends to make use of publicly available data from class action suits to examine factors associated with the incidence of litigation against auditors, the extent to which the legal merits of the case influence incidence and outcomes of those cases, and the impact of legal reform on litigation against auditors. State law does not generally allow class actions suits, so public data are not available. Research in this area focuses on understanding the process by which jurors and judges assess auditor blame for client misstatements. It considers similar issues, including the extent to which the merits of the case versus legally irrelevant factors impact the resolution of the case. Market-based experiments examine the effects of various legal regimes on auditor and social welfare. We summarize research results in these areas and identify important areas for future research, including examining the effects of potential decreases in auditor liability on social welfare, deepening our understanding of the conditions under which the merits of the case are appropriately reflected in case outcomes, and improving our understanding of how parties determine whether to settle and how juries set damage awards.
Book Synopsis Litigation Risk and Audit Fees by : Ananth Seetharaman
Download or read book Litigation Risk and Audit Fees written by Ananth Seetharaman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study re-examines the relationship between litigation risk and audit pricing. Two necessary ingredients to empirically examine this relationship are (a) a litigious legal environment, and (b) publicly disclosed auditor remuneration. Prior studies have not been able to comprehensively examine this relationship because the most litigious country in the world, the U.S., does not require auditor remuneration to be publicly disclosed. Conversely, countries that require companies to disclose auditor remuneration in their financial statements (e.g., Hong Kong, Australia, and the UK) typically have a relatively benign litigation environment. In this study, we straddle publicly disclosed auditor remuneration and a highly litigious environment by focusing on UK firms cross-listed on U.S. stock exchanges. We find that, after controlling for other factors, UK firms tend to charge higher fees for their services when their clients are cross-listed on major U.S. stock exchanges. We, however, find no evidence of higher audit fees when UK firms cross-list on non-U.S. foreign exchanges. These findings are consistent with the prediction that audit fees will reflect risk differences across liability regimes.
Book Synopsis Can Audit Fees Inhibit Accounting Misstatements? Moderating Effects of Auditor Reputation from Chinese Experience by : Bin Li
Download or read book Can Audit Fees Inhibit Accounting Misstatements? Moderating Effects of Auditor Reputation from Chinese Experience written by Bin Li and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the association between audit fees and accounting misstatements, and test the moderating effect of auditor reputation on this association in China, where auditors' legal liability is essentially weak. We find that current-year audit fees are negatively and significantly associated with the likelihood of current-year financial statement being misstated. This result is consistent with prior work, indicating a negative relation between audit fees and future misstatements in a strong litigation environment such as in the United States. This finding indicates that higher audit fees can reflect audit effort, even in a setting where litigation plays essentially no role. Prior literature suggests that audit firms have reputational incentives; thus, we use auditor irregularities and audit firm rank as proxies for auditor reputation and find that the negative relationship between misstatements and audit fees weaken as auditor reputation decreases. Our results indicate that auditor reputation can negatively moderate the relationship between audit fees and misstatements and is more important in the absence of litigation.
Book Synopsis Auditor's Public Offering Experience and Lawsuits by : Nargiz Abdullayeva
Download or read book Auditor's Public Offering Experience and Lawsuits written by Nargiz Abdullayeva and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior literature suggests that public offering clients of Big 4 auditing firms are more likely to get sued due to their "deep pockets" which might trigger the filing of lawsuits. However, it is not clear whether variation in auditor knowledge and experience among Big 4 audit offices might affect the litigation risk. In this paper, I examine whether auditor experience in public offerings measured at the audit office level is associated with lawsuit incidence related to initial and secondary public offerings. Using a sample of U.S. IPOs and SEOs audited by Big 4 audit firms, I find that IPO clients of the auditors with higher IPO experience are less likely to get sued. Similarly, I find that SEOs audited by Big 4 offices with higher SEO experience are associated with lower lawsuit incidence. I also investigate whether auditors might use their SEO and IPO experience to mitigate litigation risk interchangeably for IPO and SEO audits, respectively. I find that SEO experience is negatively associated with lawsuit incidence in the IPO sample, but that association disappears after controlling for auditor IPO experience. However, I do not find any association between auditor IPO experience and SEO-related lawsuits. I also examine the effect of auditor IPO and SEO experiences on dismissal rate among lawsuits related to IPOs and SEOs,respectively. My results suggest that the IPO experience of auditors has a positive impact on the dismissal rate of lawsuits related to IPOs. However, I do not find a significant association between the SEO experience of auditors and the dismissal rate of SEO-related lawsuits.
Book Synopsis The Importance of Business Risk in Setting Audit Fees by : Michael W. Maher
Download or read book The Importance of Business Risk in Setting Audit Fees written by Michael W. Maher and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous research provides evidence that, for the clients of a large audit firm, audit clients with higher perceived business risk bear the expected costs of this risk with higher audit fees. We extend the literature, which focuses on the relation between litigation risk and audit fees, by examining alleged client misconduct that is not illegal but possibly increases business risk. In particular, we examine the relation between audit fees and business risk for audit clients doing business in developing countries where bribery of top government officials has been accepted business practice. We hypothesize that bribery-paying clients are riskier both because of client business risk and audit business risk. Using data collected from SEC filings and audit fee data in the 1970s, prior to the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, we provide evidence that audit fees were higher for clients that disclosed paying bribes. This evidence is consistent with an audit market where auditors assess business risk at the client level, then pass its expected costs to the client in the form of higher audit fees.
Book Synopsis Regulation and the Auditing Profession by : Alexei Lubimov
Download or read book Regulation and the Auditing Profession written by Alexei Lubimov and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation consists of three studies examining three different regulatory issues that affect the auditing profession. The first study has two main foci. First, the study investigates the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on the Big 4 fee premium. Second, the study investigates the relationship between the size of an audit client and annual fee change. The results show that in the post-SOX environment, clients of non-Big 4 firms have experienced greater increases in audit fees than the clients of the Big 4 firms, resulting in a diminishing Big 4 premium. This is consistent with the notion that non-Big 4 clients had to make significant adjustments to meet post-SOX quality requirements by increasing their effort (and consequently audit fees). The results also show audit firms' large clients experience the largest percentage increase in audit fees. This is consistent with the theoretical view of consumer surplus, where the large clients, with more resources, have greater levels of consumer surplus, which is being captured by the audit firms. The study contributes to our understanding of the impact of SOX on audit fee premium and the economics of audit market competition in different client segments. The second study is focused on three main areas: 1) the relationship between audit fees and audit market concentration on a country level; 2) the effect of a country's litigation regime on the relationship between audit fees and market concentration and 3) the inter-relations between competition, fees, and quality in the market for audit services. The study is motivated by the current debate in the United States and the European Union about the possible problems associated with the current oligopolistic structure of the audit market.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Auditing by : David Hay
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Auditing written by David Hay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auditing has been a subject of some controversy, and there have been repeated attempts at reforming its practice globally. This comprehensive companion surveys the state of the discipline, including emerging and cutting-edge trends. It covers the most important and controversial issues, including auditing ethics, auditor independence, social and environmental accounting as well as the future of the field. This handbook is vital reading for legislators, regulators, professionals, commentators, students and researchers involved with auditing and accounting. The collection will also prove an ideal starting place for researchers from other fields looking to break into this vital subject.
Author :Susan McCracken Publisher :National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada ISBN 13 :9780612328440 Total Pages :586 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (284 download)
Book Synopsis Negotiation of Audit Litigation Settlements by : Susan McCracken
Download or read book Negotiation of Audit Litigation Settlements written by Susan McCracken and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1998 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Suil Pae Publisher :National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada ISBN 13 : Total Pages :154 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Firm Value, Audit Quality, and Social Welfare in the Presence of Costly Litigation Against Auditors by : Suil Pae
Download or read book Firm Value, Audit Quality, and Social Welfare in the Presence of Costly Litigation Against Auditors written by Suil Pae and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1996 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
