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 …

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 …

Do PCAOB inspections improve the quality of internal control audits?

ML DeFond, CS Lennox - Journal of Accounting Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT We investigate whether Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
inspections affect the quality of internal control audits. Our research design improves on …

A summary of 10 years of PCAOB research: What have we learned?

JL Abernathy, M Barnes, C Stefaniak - Journal of Accounting …, 2013 - emerald.com
For the past 10 years, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has
operated as an independent overseer of public company audits. Over 70 percent of PCAOB …

Public oversight and reporting credibility: Evidence from the PCAOB audit inspection regime

B Gipper, C Leuz, M Maffett - The Review of Financial Studies, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This paper studies the impact of public audit oversight on financial reporting credibility. We
analyze changes in market responses to earnings news after public audit oversight is …

Extreme estimation uncertainty in fair value estimates: Implications for audit assurance

BE Christensen, SM Glover… - Auditing: A Journal of …, 2012 - publications.aaahq.org
The overall complexity and estimation uncertainty inherent in financial statements have
increased in recent decades; however, the related reports and services have changed very …

Audit quality and regulation

WR Knechel - International Journal of Auditing, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Since 2002, there has been a significant and rapid growth in regulation related to the audit
profession. However, despite significant progress in the quality of audits, as well as some …

Does PCAOB inspection access improve audit quality? An examination of foreign firms listed in the United States

PT Lamoreaux - Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
To gain insight into the impact of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's
(PCAOB) auditor inspection program, I examine the association between the PCAOB's …

Does the PCAOB international inspection program improve audit quality for non-US-listed foreign clients?

SYK Fung, KK Raman, XK Zhu - Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
We examine whether the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
international inspection program improves audit quality for a sample of non-US-listed foreign …

The effect of PCAOB inspections on Big 4 audit quality

JV Carcello, C Hollingsworth, SA Mastrolia - Research in accounting …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper examines whether the PCAOB inspection process results in an improvement in
the quality of audits provided by Big 4 firms. We measure audit quality by examining …