[HTML][HTML] A review of archival auditing research

M DeFond, J Zhang - Journal of accounting and economics, 2014 - Elsevier
We define higher audit quality as greater assurance of high financial reporting quality.
Researchers use many proxies for audit quality, with little guidance on choosing among …

New perspectives in internal audit research: A structured literature review

M Roussy, A Perron - Accounting perspectives, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This structured literature review adopts a multimethod and multitheoretical approach to
identify current knowledge about internal audit as well as related knowledge gaps. To that …

[HTML][HTML] The role of audit quality in the ESG-corporate financial performance nexus: Empirical evidence from Western European companies

RMA Zahid, MK Khan, W Anwar, US Maqsood - Borsa Istanbul Review, 2022 - Elsevier
The study explores the moderating role of audit quality in the relationship between
environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors and corporate financial performance …

Is artificial intelligence improving the audit process?

A Fedyk, J Hodson, N Khimich, T Fedyk - Review of Accounting Studies, 2022 - Springer
How does artificial intelligence (AI) impact audit quality and efficiency? We explore this
question by leveraging a unique dataset of more than 310,000 detailed individual resumes …

[HTML][HTML] ESG, dividend payout policy and the moderating role of audit quality: Empirical evidence from Western Europe

RMA Zahid, A Taran, MK Khan, IC Chersan - Borsa Istanbul Review, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigates the relationship between environmental, social, and governance
(ESG) scores and dividend policies, considering the moderating role of audit quality. Based …

Understanding the relation between financial reporting quality and audit quality

LM Gaynor, AS Kelton, M Mercer… - AUDITING: A Journal of …, 2016 - publications.aaahq.org
SUMMARY A primary goal of both financial reporting research and audit research is to
understand the determinants of quality, and researchers in both areas have identified a wide …

Understanding audit quality: Insights from audit professionals and investors

BE Christensen, SM Glover, TC Omer… - Contemporary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Projects seeking to define, measure, and evaluate audit quality are on the agendas of
auditing standards setters as well as audit firms. The Public Company Accounting Oversight …

Do practitioner assessments agree with academic proxies for audit quality? Evidence from PCAOB and internal inspections

D Aobdia - Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigates the degree of concordance between fifteen measures of audit quality
used in academia and two measures of audit process quality determined either by audit …

PCAOB inspections: Public accounting firms on “trial”

KD Westermann, J Cohen… - Contemporary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The objective of our article is to obtain a better understanding of how auditors anticipate the
potential for PCAOB inspection, experience the inspection, cope with the consequences of …

[HTML][HTML] Going big, going small: A perspective on strategies for researching audit quality

JR Francis - The British Accounting Review, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper updates how archival audit research has evolved since the summary in Francis
(2004) of what we knew then about audit quality. The paper describes an evolution from …