What drives auditor selection?

ED Almer, DR Philbrick… - … Issues in Auditing, 2014 - publications.aaahq.org
… Specifically, SOX requires audit committees to be responsible for auditor selection but, at …
into the auditor selection process—ACMs in our study acknowledge that the auditor selection

Auditor selection and audit committee characteristics

LJ Abbott, S Parker - Auditing: A journal of practice & theory, 2000 - publications.aaahq.org
… 4 We address only auditor selection and omit discussion of the relation between the decision
to switch auditors and corporate governance variables. Variables related to the decision to …

Auditor selection: an incentive-signalling approach

S Bar-Yosef, J Livnat - Accounting and Business Research, 1984 - Taylor & Francis
… about high auditor concentrations, call for better understanding of the auditor selection
process. The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of auditor selection through a …

Auditor selection and corporate social responsibility

WC Sun, HW Huang, M Dao… - Journal of Business …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
auditor selection, we find some evidence that in controversial industries, firms with higher
CSR ratings related to product quality are more likely to select non-specialized auditors. One …

Shareholder voting on auditor selection, audit fees, and audit quality

M Dao, K Raghunandan… - The Accounting Review, 2012 - publications.aaahq.org
… While the ACAP recommends shareholder voting on auditor selection based on arguments
about … in auditor selection also changes the incentives of the auditors and strengthens auditor

The impact of competition within the client's industry on the auditor selection decision

S Kwon - Auditing, 1996 - search.proquest.com
… While the derived-demand appears to affect the choices of audit firms above and beyond
industry specialization and economies of scale, the auditor selection process might be more …

Auditor–client compatibility and audit firm selection

SV Brown, WR Knechel - Journal of Accounting Research, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… define auditor–client compatibility as the ability of the auditor … clients of the same auditor,
we presume that the auditor is likely to … Therefore, we consider a company and auditor to be …

Management influence on auditor selection and subsequent impairments of auditor independence during the post-SOX period

DS Dhaliwal, PT Lamoreaux, CS Lennox… - Available at SSRN …, 2013 - papers.ssrn.com
… over auditor selection affects subsequent auditor independence. The underlying presumption
in SOX is that management influence over auditor selection … impairs auditor independence …

Auditor selection following auditor turnover: Do peers' choices matter?

XD Li, L Sun, M Ettredge - Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2017 - Elsevier
… Using data from the years 2001–2012, and controlling for the determinants of auditor selection
documented in prior literature, we find that, after auditor turnover, the propensity of a client …

Selection of auditor firms by companies in the new issue market

M Firth, A Smith - Applied Economics, 1992 - Taylor & Francis
selection of auditors by companies seeking a stock market listing on the New Zealand Stock
Exchange. A model of auditor selection … to examine the question of auditor selection. First, …