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Client importance, nonaudit services, and abnormal accruals.

Accounting Review, October, 2003 by Hyeesoo Chung

ABSTRACT: The economic theory of auditor independence (DeAngelo 1981b) suggests that auditors' incentives to compromise their independence are related to client importance. Using ratios of client fees and of nonaudit fees divided by the audit firm's U.S. revenues or a surrogate for the audit-practice-office revenues as measures of client importance, we investigate their association with Jones-model abnormal accruals.

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In a sample of 1,871 clients of Big 5 audit firms we do not find a statistically significant association between abnormal accruals and any of the client importance measures. Our theory development also suggests that auditor incentives to compromise independence should increase ...

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Financial Services Industry

Client importance, nonaudit services, and abnormal accruals.

Accounting Review, October, 2003 by Hyeesoo Chung

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