The effects of corporate governance and audit and non-audit fees on IPO Value

Salim Chahine and Igor Filatotchev

The British Accounting Review, 2011, vol. 43, issue 3, 155-172

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of non-executive board members, audit committee composition and financial expertise, and fees paid to audit firms on the value of 375 UK initial public offerings (IPOs). Empirical findings show that underpricing decreases in audit fees whereas it increases in non-audit fees. A higher proportion of non-executive directors on the firm’s board and audit committees with a higher proportion of non-executive directors and financial accounting expertise of their members positively moderate the inter-relationships between underpricing and both audit and non-audit fees paid by companies going through an IPO. Further investigations using the adjusted price-to-book value as a proxy for firm value at IPO confirm our main findings that internal governance mechanisms may complement services provided by the auditors in terms of generating higher valuations. Controlling for the simultaneous determination of audit and non-audit fees, our results remain consistent.

Keywords: Audit fees; Non-audit fees; Non-executive board members; Audit committee quality; IPO; Firm value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2011.06.008

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