Auditing the auditors: Evidence on the recent reforms to the external monitoring of audit firms

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• 作者：Clive Lennox ; Jeffrey Pittman
• 关键词：Regulation ; Sarbanes– ; Oxley act ; PCAOB
• 刊名：Journal of Accounting and Economics
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：February 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：49
• 期：1-2
• 页码：84-103
• 全文大小：256 K

文摘

This paper analyzes audit firm supervision since the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) began conducting inspections. First, we find that audit clients do not perceive that the PCAOB's inspection reports are valuable for signaling audit quality. Second, we document that the information content of peer review reports fell after they became narrower in scope with the initiation of PCAOB inspections. Third, we isolate that the signaling role of peer review reports mainly stems from information that PCAOB inspectors do not publicly disclose. Collectively, our evidence implies that less is known about audit firm quality under the new regulatory regime.