Abnormal Audit Fees and Audit Opinion – Further Evidence from China's Capital Market

The existing literature on audit opinion shopping provides inconsistent evidence on whether such shopping has any association with abnormal audit fees. In this paper, we hypothesize that firms engage in audit opinion shopping and pay an abnormal audit fee only when their degree of accounting quality...

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Main Authors: Zanchun Xie, Chun Cai, Jianming Ye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2010-06-01
Series:China Journal of Accounting Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755309113600192