The Effect of Audit Market Concentration on Audit Pricing and Audit Quality: The Role of the Size of the Audit Market

The GAO has recently expressed concern that audit market concentration (i.e., not client concentration) could result in greater audit fees and lower audit quality. However, the extant literature finds that local audit markets with higher concentration have lower audit fees (Numan and Willekens 2012)...

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Main Author: Eshleman, John Daniel
Other Authors: Cheng, Agnes
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2013
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11082013-133239/