Auditor Tenure, Audit Firm Rotation and Audit Quality: A Literature Review

Auditor Independence and Audit Quality:

This paper reviews literatures related to auditor independence and audit quality. The review is structured based on the four main threats to auditor independence, namely client importance, nonaudit services, auditor tenure, and client’s affiliation with CPA firms. For each of the threats, we discuss findings related to the incentives, perception, and behavior of the auditor and the client, the ...

Auditor Independence and Non-Audit Services: A Literature Review

Auditor Tenure, Auditor Industry Expertise, and Audit Report Lag: Evidences of Iran

The findings of theoretical investigations indicate that short-term auditor tenures may contribute to further audit report lags (ARLs). On the other hand, auditor industry expertise represents one of the determinant factors contributing to audit quality, which has been widely studied in numerous researches. Indeed, the better the quality of audit, the less delayed would be the audit report. As ...

Auditor tenure and rotation

There has been a long-standing debate as to the relative merits of mandatory auditor rotation. In the United States (US), Section 203 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002) (SOX) requires rotation of the lead engagement partner and the concurring review partner at least once every five years. Section 207 also requires a study on the potential effects of mandatory audit firm rotation. After conducting...

investigating the impact of mandatory audit firm rotation on audit fee and audit market competition

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...