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Auditors’ response to family succession: evidence from China

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  • Tzu-Ching Weng
  • Hsin-Yi Chi
  • Huan-Yi Li

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This study examines the association between family succession and audit pricing. Auditors are interested in the successor’s capability, and they are incentivized to include this information in their audit pricing. A unique manually gathered dataset from China shows higher audit fees paid by second-generation family firms. However, compared with top-tier auditors, non-top-tier auditors charge lower audit fees to retain their engagement with family successors. Furthermore, auditors are more sensitive to successors’ personality characteristics, such as overseas education, business-related bachelor’s degree, business career experience, political connections, and succession age.

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  • Tzu-Ching Weng & Hsin-Yi Chi & Huan-Yi Li, 2023. "Auditors’ response to family succession: evidence from China," Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(1), pages 247-265, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:raaexx:v:30:y:2023:i:1:p:247-265
    DOI: 10.1080/16081625.2021.2020670
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