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Prior research on audit experience focuses on behavioral studies that are conducted byrunning experiments. Although these studies provide evidence on the role of experience incompleting specific audit tasks, they do not shed light on how experience affects a completeaudit engagement. We conduct an archival study to examine the effect of audit experienceon audit fees and audit quality. Using unique data from China, where the signees ofthe audit report can be identified and linked with a government database containing personalinformation about certified public accountants, we find that experience is positivelyassociated with audit fees and negatively associated with absolute discretionary accruals.Furthermore, we extend the research on personal characteristics of audit partners by consideringthe incremental effects of gender, education, engagement tenure, industry specialization,and client importance after controlling for overall audit experience. Overall, ourresults suggest that the auditors’ personal characteristics may serve as a signal of the levelof care that will be exercised during the audit process. Our results also have implicationsfor China’s recently announced regulation that would require localization of Big 4 offices inChina
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