Can Big 4 versus Non-Big 4 Differences in Audit-Quality Proxies Be Attributed to Client Characteristics?

作者: Alastair Lawrence , Miguel Minutti-Meza , Ping Zhang

DOI: 10.2308/ACCR.00000009

关键词: Control (management)Ex-anteBusinessQuality auditAccountingAccrualPropensity score matchingMatching (statistics)Audit

摘要: … proxies for audit quality between Big 4 and non-Big 4 audit firms … In our analyses, we use three audit-quality proxies—… the two auditor groups while estimating the audit-quality effects. …

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