The Effect of Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation on Earnings Management and Audit Fees: Evidence from Iran

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...

The Impact of Audit Quality on Earnings Management: An Experimental Study with Evidence from IPO

According to a method of earnings management activities that administrators can manage reported earnings from the definition of real activity. In particular they can be located across time and activities in a way that accounting period to achieve a certain revenue target. Conservative attitudes of auditors in presenting their views about the independence of the auditor can considered as a remar...

Investigating the Effect of Mandatory Rotation of Auditors on the Relationship between Audit Fees and Market Value Added (MVA), Economic Value Added (EVA) and Corporate Growth Opportunities

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of mandatory rotation of auditors on the relationship between audit fees and market value added, economic value added and growth opportunities for listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange. Research hypotheses based on a statistical sample of 106 companies during an 11-year period from 2007 to 2017 were tested using the multivariabl...

Effect of different economic conditions on audit and non-audit fees: Evidence from Sweden

Economic Crisis and Audit Fees

Economic crisis generally increases firms’ bankruptcy and consequently audit risk. Hence, auditors are more likely to respond to this increased risk through increasing audit fees. However, in the lack of adequate empirical and theoretical evidence, the role of this macro-economic variable, economic crisis, is not clearly demonstrated on audit fees. Therefore, this study investigates the role of...