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DYNAMICS OF AUDIT PRICING

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DISCUSSION BY DAVID HAY

DYNAMICS OF AUDIT PRICING

  • A client’s audit fees relative to its peers influences subsequent fees
  • Higher rankings associated with greater reductions in fees
  • “May play an important role”

IMPLYING

Highest stays highest; lowest stays lowest; 8th stays 8th?

WHY?

Why study it? Why it occurs?
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SOME RELEVANT EXPLANATIONS

  • Higher fees as a bribe (Choi)
  • Fee residual as quality (Hribar)
  • Unexplained audit costs (Doogar)
  • Audit fee stickiness (de Villiers)

DOLLAR AMOUNTS?

And some other suggestions

DYNAMICS OF AUDIT PRICING

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David Hay

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