Essec\Faculty\Model\Contribution {#2188
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    "slug" => "audit-firm-profitability-determinants-and-implications-for-audit-outcomes"
    "yearMonth" => "2023-03"
    "year" => "2023"
    "title" => "Audit-Firm Profitability: Determinants and Implications for Audit Outcomes"
    "description" => "CHEN, J.Z., ELEMES, A., HOPE, O.K. et YOON, A.S. (2023). Audit-Firm Profitability: Determinants and Implications for Audit Outcomes. <i>European Accounting Review</i>, In press, pp. 1-28."
    "authors" => array:4 [
      0 => array:3 [
        "name" => "ELEMES Anastasios"
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      1 => array:1 [
        "name" => "CHEN Jeff Zeyun"
      ]
      2 => array:1 [
        "name" => "HOPE Ole-Kristian"
      ]
      3 => array:1 [
        "name" => "YOON Aaron S."
      ]
    ]
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    "keywords" => array:5 [
      0 => "AuditingAudit firms"
      1 => "Audit-firm profitability"
      2 => "Private firms"
      3 => "Audit quality"
      4 => "Audit effort"
    ]
    "updatedAt" => "2023-03-23 01:00:51"
    "publicationUrl" => "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09638180.2023.2169735"
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      "pages" => "1-28"
      "volume" => "In press"
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      "fr" => "Revue scientifique"
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    "abstract" => array:2 [
      "fr" => "We use a novel dataset that links audit-firm and client-firm financial statement information from the U.K.’s largest audit firms to examine drivers of audit-firm profitability and its implications for audit outcomes. We first explore the determinants of audit-firm profitability and conclude that Big-4 and non-Big-4 audit firms have fundamentally different profitability structures. Big-4 firms have higher profit margins than non-Big-4 firms. Furthermore, Big-4 profitability increases with client size and complexity, while non-Big-4 profitability is higher for smaller, private-firm clients. Next, we examine the relation between audit-firm profitability and audit outcomes. Using a battery of alternative outcome measures, we find that more profitable audit firms deliver higher audit quality. In supplemental analyses we show that the positive relation between audit-firm profitability and audit outcomes is generally stronger for more influential and illiquid clients (i.e. when auditors are exposed to more litigation risk). Our inferences are robust to several endogeneity controls, such as using an instrumental variables approach, controlling for client-firm and audit-firm fixed effects, employing lead-lag and changes specifications, and assessing bias from correlated omitted variables. Our study contributes to the literature by being the first to provide insights into audit-firm profitability and examine in detail its implications for audit quality."
      "en" => "We use a novel dataset that links audit-firm and client-firm financial statement information from the U.K.’s largest audit firms to examine drivers of audit-firm profitability and its implications for audit outcomes. We first explore the determinants of audit-firm profitability and conclude that Big-4 and non-Big-4 audit firms have fundamentally different profitability structures. Big-4 firms have higher profit margins than non-Big-4 firms. Furthermore, Big-4 profitability increases with client size and complexity, while non-Big-4 profitability is higher for smaller, private-firm clients. Next, we examine the relation between audit-firm profitability and audit outcomes. Using a battery of alternative outcome measures, we find that more profitable audit firms deliver higher audit quality. In supplemental analyses we show that the positive relation between audit-firm profitability and audit outcomes is generally stronger for more influential and illiquid clients (i.e. when auditors are exposed to more litigation risk). Our inferences are robust to several endogeneity controls, such as using an instrumental variables approach, controlling for client-firm and audit-firm fixed effects, employing lead-lag and changes specifications, and assessing bias from correlated omitted variables. Our study contributes to the literature by being the first to provide insights into audit-firm profitability and examine in detail its implications for audit quality."
    ]
    "authors_fields" => array:2 [
      "fr" => "Comptabilité et Contrôle de Gestion"
      "en" => "Accounting and Management Control "
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    "indexedAt" => "2024-04-27T18:21:45.000Z"
    "docTitle" => "Audit-Firm Profitability: Determinants and Implications for Audit Outcomes"
    "docSurtitle" => "Journal articles"
    "authorNames" => "<a href="/cv/elemes-anastasios">ELEMES Anastasios</a>, CHEN Jeff Zeyun, HOPE Ole-Kristian, YOON Aaron S."
    "docDescription" => "<span class="document-property-authors">ELEMES Anastasios, CHEN Jeff Zeyun, HOPE Ole-Kristian, YOON Aaron S.</span><br><span class="document-property-authors_fields">Accounting and Management Control </span> | <span class="document-property-year">2023</span>"
    "keywordList" => "<a href="#">AuditingAudit firms</a>, <a href="#">Audit-firm profitability</a>, <a href="#">Private firms</a>, <a href="#">Audit quality</a>, <a href="#">Audit effort</a>"
    "docPreview" => "<b>Audit-Firm Profitability: Determinants and Implications for Audit Outcomes</b><br><span>2023-03 | Journal articles </span>"
    "docType" => "research"
    "publicationLink" => "<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09638180.2023.2169735" target="_blank">Audit-Firm Profitability: Determinants and Implications for Audit Outcomes</a>"
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