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Do professional risk funds affect audit quality?

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  • Qihui Gong
  • Xiaomei Han
  • Huihui Shen
  • Qiuhang Xing

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In China, audit firms are required to maintain ‘professional risk funds’. These funds can be used only to pay civil compensation caused by deliberate or gross negligence in auditing activities. Using Chinese data from this peculiar regulatory characteristic, we investigate the impact of audit firms’ professional risk funds on audit quality. We find that the higher the audit firms’ professional risk funds, the lower the discretionary accruals. This finding is more pronounced for client firms with higher information asymmetry or weaker corporate governance. Further tests indicate that the higher the professional risk funds, the greater the audit effort invested in the auditing process, while audit fees do not change significantly. Our results suggest that higher professional risk funds ultimately improve audit quality by increasing audit effort.

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  • Qihui Gong & Xiaomei Han & Huihui Shen & Qiuhang Xing, 2021. "Do professional risk funds affect audit quality?," Accounting and Business Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(6-7), pages 777-799, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:acctbr:v:51:y:2021:i:6-7:p:777-799
    DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2021.1911778
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    1. Saeid Homayoun & Vahid Molla Imeny & Mahdi Salehi & Mahdi Moradi & Simon Norton, 2022. "Which Is More Concerning for Accounting Professionals-Personal Risk or Professional Risk?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-13, November.

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