[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 …

Understanding earnings quality: A review of the proxies, their determinants and their consequences

P Dechow, W Ge, C Schrand - Journal of accounting and economics, 2010 - Elsevier
Researchers have used various measures as indications of “earnings quality” including
persistence, accruals, smoothness, timeliness, loss avoidance, investor responsiveness …

Do client characteristics really drive the Big N audit quality effect? New evidence from propensity score matching

M DeFond, DH Erkens, J Zhang - Management Science, 2017 - pubsonline.informs.org
A large auditing literature concludes that Big N auditors provide higher audit quality than
non-Big N auditors. Recently, however, a high-profile study suggests that propensity score …

Determinants of GRI-based sustainability reporting: evidence from an emerging economy

N Orazalin, M Mahmood - Journal of Accounting in Emerging …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent and determinants of
sustainability performance disclosures reported by publicly traded companies in Kazakhstan …

[HTML][HTML] How audit effort affects audit quality: An audit process and audit output perspective

T **ao, C Geng, C Yuan - China Journal of Accounting Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Using a unique dataset of audit days in China from 2006 to 2011, this paper examines the
relationship between audit effort and audit quality from the perspective of audit process and …

Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure in an emerging economy: evidence from commercial banks of Kazakhstan

N Orazalin - Corporate Governance: The International Journal of …, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to explore the extent and nature of corporate social responsibility
(CSR) reporting practices in the banking sector of Kazakhstan and investigates the effects of …

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 …

Nonfinancial disclosure and analyst forecast accuracy: International evidence on corporate social responsibility disclosure

DS Dhaliwal, S Radhakrishnan… - The accounting …, 2012 - publications.aaahq.org
We examine the relationship between disclosure of nonfinancial information and analyst
forecast accuracy using firm-level data from 31 countries. We use the issuance of stand …

A framework for understanding and researching audit quality

JR Francis - Auditing: A journal of practice & theory, 2011 - publications.aaahq.org
This paper presents a general framework for studying factors associated with engagement-
level audit quality. The framework is intended to sharpen our thinking about conducting audit …

Do individual auditors affect audit quality? Evidence from archival data

FA Gul, D Wu, Z Yang - The Accounting Review, 2013 - publications.aaahq.org
We examine whether and how individual auditors affect audit outcomes using a large set of
archival Chinese data. We analyze approximately 800 individual auditors and find that they …