Why are expanded audit reports not informative to investors? Evidence from the United Kingdom

CS Lennox, JJ Schmidt, AM Thompson - Review of Accounting Studies, 2023 - Springer
Standard-setters worldwide have passed new audit reporting requirements aimed at making
audit reports more informative to investors. In the UK, the new standard expands the audit …

The art of conversation: The expanded audit report

M Minutti-Meza - Accounting and Business Research, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The new generation of expanded audit reports includes disclosures about significant matters
in a company's financial reporting and its audit. These disclosures are a landmark change in …

The disclosure and consequences of US critical audit matters

JJ Burke, R Hoitash, U Hoitash… - The Accounting …, 2023 - publications.aaahq.org
This study uses difference-in-differences (DiD) analyses to examine the consequences of
adopting the US critical audit matter (CAM) disclosure requirement for preparers and users …

It's a matter of style: The role of audit firms and audit partners in key audit matter reporting

LM Rousseau, KM Zehms - Contemporary Accounting …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the relative importance of audit firm versus partner decision styles in key audit
matter (KAM) reporting. Standard setters intended KAMs to increase the usefulness of the …

Informativeness of key audit matters: evidence from China

BW Goh, J Lee, D Li, M Wang - Auditing: A Journal of …, 2024 - publications.aaahq.org
This study examines whether the key audit matters (KAMs) disclosed in expanded audit
reports as a part of recent regulatory reforms are informative for investors in an emerging …

How do auditor rotations affect key audit matters? Archival evidence from South African audits

AD de Ricquebourg, W Maroun - The British Accounting Review, 2023 - Elsevier
The expansion of the auditor's reporting duties with the introduction of critical or key audit
matters (KAMs) has reignited interest in the determinants and consequences of the rules …

Auditor rotation, key audit matter disclosures, and financial reporting quality

HL Lin, AR Yen - Advances in accounting, 2022 - Elsevier
Auditor rotation is believed to affect financial reporting quality partly because of the fresh
views brought by new auditors. However, fresh views are generally unobservable and are …

Costs and benefits of auditors' disclosure of critical audit matters: Initial evidence from the United States

V Li, Y Luo - Advances in accounting, 2023 - Elsevier
In an effort to make audit reports more informative to financial statement users, the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) requires an expanded audit report in which …

Disclosure of tax‐related critical audit matters and tax‐related outcomes

KD Drake, NC Goldman, SJ Lusch… - Contemporary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Given that tax‐related critical audit matters (tax CAMs) were prevalent among accelerated
filers (18.5% of observations) during the initial year of CAM disclosures, we examine …

Auditor, client and investor consequences of the enhanced auditor's report

M Al‐mulla, ME Bradbury - International Journal of Auditing, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the impact of the enhanced auditor's report (ISA 701) in New Zealand
on audit effort (audit fees and audit delay); audit quality (absolute abnormal accruals); …