To expand the range of services they provide to clients, professional accounting firms have hired partner-level consultants in areas such as human resources and information technology. However, these ...

Companies whose audit committees disclose involvement in the selection of the audit partner experience higher levels of audit and financial reporting quality. Companies whose audit committees disclose ...

Audit partners’ professional skepticism varies from high to low as the relationship between the partner and the audit client continues year after year, according to a study available at ssrn.com.

Most audit partners in the U.S. are not optimistic about the economic outlook over the next 12 months, according to a new survey by the Center for Audit Quality, seeing the top economic risks to ...

Economic pessimism is on the wane among audit partners, though they're not feeling as confident as they were last year, according to a new survey Tuesday from the Center for Audit Quality. Processing ...

Three out of four public company audit partners believe that inflationary concerns could persist well into 2023 and possibly beyond, according to a new survey by the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ).