The theory of auditing economics: Evidence and suggestions for future research

M Ye - Foundations and Trends® in Accounting, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
Analytical auditing research provides underlying theory for the economic analysis of
auditing. Despite its importance, there have been no papers that provide a comprehensive …

Optimal contracts with a utility-maximizing auditor

S Baiman, JH Evans, J Noel - Journal of Accounting Research, 1987 - JSTOR
This paper presents a principal-agent model in which the agent becomes strictly better
informed than the principal after the contract agreement. To mitigate the inefficiency caused …

Low balling, legal liability and auditor independence

CWJ Lee, Z Gu - Accounting Review, 1998 - JSTOR
We construct a dynamic multi-agent moral hazard model to analyze the interactions among
the firm owner, the manager and the auditor. Moral hazard may arise in hierarchical agency …

[BOOK][B] Die Principal-Agent-Theorie aus informationsökonomischer Sicht

S Kiener - 2013 - books.google.com
Im Rahmen der Institutionellen Mikroökonomie hat die Agency-Theorie in jüngster Zeit einen
hohen Stellenwert erlangt. Die normative, auch als Principal-Agent-Theorie bezeichnete …

Models in managerial accounting

JS Demski, DM Kreps - Journal of Accounting Research, 1982 - JSTOR
The purpose of this paper is to review and critique the recent modelbased research in
managerial accounting. We do not attempt to provide a sufficient statistic for this stock of …

[BOOK][B] Optimale Anreizsysteme: Betriebswirtschaftliche Implikationen der Prinzipal-Agenten-Theorie

T Petersen - 2013 - books.google.com
Die Prinzipal-Agenten-Theorie ist ein neues mikrookonomisches Paradigma zum Studium
von Organisationen. Die mikrookonomische Theorie studiert parktisch ausschlieBlich" Ich …

Contingent fees for audit firms

RA Dye, BV Balachandran, RP Magee - Journal of Accounting Research, 1990 - JSTOR
In this paper, we examine how auditors and their clients respond to the introduction of report-
contingent audit contracts in a model of the audit market. Such contracts might appear …

Principals and agents in crisis: reforms of accounting and audit at Lloyd's, 1982-1986

D Gwilliam, R Macve, G Meeks - Accounting History, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
The 1970s and early 1980s saw significant structural change in the insurance market at
Lloyd's of London and it became increasingly difficult for providers of the collateral against …

Game theoretic analysis of discovery sampling for internal fraud control auditing

DR Finley - Contemporary Accounting Research, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
A strategic internal auditing model is developed to analyze the use of discovery sampling to
deter or detect abstraction of assets by an auditee. The analysis develops a game in which …

Auditing Quality, Investor Sentiment and Earnings Response---Evidence from the Chinese A-Share Market

L Zhang, C Ge, WH Su - Accounting and Finance Research, 2018 - ideas.repec.org
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether auditing quality mitigates the impact of the
investor’ s sentiment on share market response to earnings news. Auditing quality …