Download or read book Three Essays on Audit Market Development written by Abdul Rahman Ahmad Abdullah Al Natour and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Audit Regulation Audit Market Structure and the Quality of Financial Statements written by Benjamin Heß and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Audit Market Regulation written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on the Structure of Auditing Industry Auditor Liability and the Regulation of Audit Quality written by Masoud Yaharadeh and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Auditor Industry Specialization written by Ankita Singhvi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Audit Policies written by Zhixin Dai and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis focuses on the study of audit policies in different contexts using both lab and field experiments. In particular, we focus on a special auditing rule, called “crackdown”, which is the concentration of high-frequency or systematic controls in a limited amount of time and/or on a delimited geographical area or subset of the population. Despite its frequent use and obvious implications, little attention has been received from economists. We study in this thesis the efficiency of various types of crackdowns, manipulating the degree of uncertainty of individuals about the probability of audits.The first essay investigates whether there is an alternative to improve the efficiency of crackdowns in a public goods game. We find that, under ambiguity, a less costly intermittent audit scheme can sustain the same level of cooperation compared to a systematic audit regime when contributing less than the average of the other group members is centrally sanctioned.The second essay offers a comprehensive investigation on the relative efficiency of various crackdown policies using a lab-in-the-field experiment with passengers of a public transport service. We introduce a novel game, the daily public transportation game, where subjects have to decide, over many periods, whether to buy or not a ticket, knowing that there might be a control. The main result is that concentrated crackdowns are less effective and efficient than random controls. We also find that real fare-dodgers fraud more in the experiment than non-fare-dodgers.The third essay develops a simple model to study endogenous crackdowns, i.e., a dramatic increase of the audit probability triggered by a low level of compliance. We test this model experimentally. We show that: (a) compliance reacts quickly to the occurrence of crackdowns; (b) subjects report more than half of their income even during non-crackdown periods; (c) announcements of crackdown increase significantly tax compliance both when crackdowns are pre-announced and when they are announced ex post; (d) subjects are able to coordinate quickly to end crackdowns.
Download or read book Three Essays on Audit Market Regulation and Voluntary Disclosure Decision written by Aurelio Perucca and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Audit Market Enforcement Actions and Voluntary Disclosures written by Seong Jin Ahn (Accounting professor) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is comprised of three empirical essays relating to audit market, SEC enforcement actions, and voluntary disclosure. The first essay investigates the effects of auditor office location on client and auditor surplus. Using a two-sided matching market model, I find that, while both clients and auditors bear the costs of geographic distance, auditors disproportionately bear costs. Although distance exerts costs on clients, clients incur distance costs to gain auditor expertise. Next, I examine how the stickiness of audit office locations affects equilibrium audit market matches. The immobility of audit office locations results in a market-wide surplus loss of 1.6%, and leaves 8% of clients worse off. In addition, by aggregating individual client-auditor surplus at the MSA and state level, I find that in underserved regions, clients are more likely to choose their second-best auditors, and auditors are more likely to extract rents from clients. Finally, relocating audit offices in overserved regions, such as Detroit and Cincinnati, to underserved regions, such as Austin and Houston, improves market-wide surplus, and therefore, leaves clients and auditors in both regions better off. Overall, this paper contributes to the literature by highlighting how an audit market friction (stickiness in audit office location) affects surplus and auditor matches. The second essay examines whether SEC insider trading charges deter illegal insider trading activity among non-targeted insider employed by firms in the same industry. The second essay is co-authored with Jared Jennings. Using a hand-collected sample of SEC insider trading charges, we find that non-targeted insiders at peer firms execute less profitable non-routine purchases following the disclosure of the SEC insider trading charges. We find that the insider non-routine purchase results are concentrated among non-targeted insiders at peer firms that are geographically closer to the targeted firm. We find no consistent evidence that non-targeted insiders at peer firms execute less profitable non-routine sales after SEC insider trading charges are filed. These results provide evidence on the effectiveness of SEC enforcement actions on deterring questionable insider trading activities. Lastly, the third essay examines the implications of unbundled management forecast news for future earnings and returns. This third essay is co-authored with Zachary Kaplan and Salman Arif. We find that positive (negative) management forecast news predicts higher (lower) unexpected earnings over the upcoming year, but this positive predictive relation flips to negative over the following year. Further, while stock returns initially drift in the same direction as the news in the management forecast, returns begin to reverse beginning six months after the forecast and this reversal continues over the following two years. We conduct several analyses which suggest that return reversals occur because investors over-extrapolate the news from management forecasts. First, we find that positive (negative) management forecast news leads to analyst earnings forecasts that are excessively optimistic (pessimistic). Second, we find that management forecasts which are less persistent (e.g. forecasts by firms with higher earnings volatility and forecasts that convey negative news) are associated with larger return reversals. Third, we find that increasing the frequency or providing forecasts for a number of horizons mitigates the return reversals. Overall, our findings contribute to our understanding of the information conveyed by management forecasts and suggest that market participants overreact to unbundled management forecasts.
Download or read book Three Essays on the Role of Non audit Services for Audit Pricing and Audit Quality written by Martin Wolfgang Schönberger and published by . This book was released on 2018* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Audit Technology written by Jun Dai and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology has deeply influenced the evolution of the auditing profession. New technologies such as Industry 4.0, blockchain, and apps, are expected to dramatically change the both current business model and society at large. The audit profession may need to adjust its existing paradigm in order to adapt to such a rapidly changing environment. Moreover, new audit approaches relying on advanced technologies could be used to improve assurance quality. This dissertation consists of three essays that explore the potential impact of emerging technologies on audit domain. The study contributes to the auditing literature by introducing Audit 4.0, blockchain, and apps to audit research, analyzing their potential applications in audit procedures, and proposing new paradigms that leverage those technologies to improve audit quality. The first essay foresees the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on the auditing profession, imagineers the use of new technologies promoted by Industry 4.0 for audit purposes, and identifies challenges in the transformation towards the new generation of auditing: "Audit 4.0". The second essay studies how blockchain technology could contribute to the accounting and auditing profession. Blockchain is the most disruptive information technology in recent years. Although the use of blockchain has been studied in many fields such as banking, financial markets, and government service, its application to accounting and assurance remains under-explored. This chapter discusses how blockchain could enable a real-time, reliable, and transparent accounting ecosystem, and how it could transform current auditing practices resulting in a more precise, timely, automatic assurance system. The third essay explores the use of apps to augment existing audit procedures. This essay first proposes a framework that provides guidance on app development and use. Based on this framework, this study designs a planning system that integrates apps into audit plans. Further, an intelligent app recommender system is designed to enable less experienced auditors to perform analytical audits. Finally, the planning system and the app recommender, together with other intelligent systems, are combined to create a new auditing paradigm: app-based auditing.
Download or read book Three Essays on Audit Quality written by Wenjun Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Audit Failures Restatements and Audit Market Structure written by Marcin Pawel Bartkowiak and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Audit Risk Assessment written by Lili Sun and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Auditor Independence and Auditor Liability written by Ping Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Auditor Independence and Auditor Liability written by Ping Zhang and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1999 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays in Labor Market Analysis written by Patrick M. Kline and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Macroeconomic Theory written by Heegab Choi and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
