AUDIT FIRM SIZE, AUDIT FEE AND AUDIT QUALITY

Rita Yuniarti
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Rita Yuniarti: Widyatama University Bandung, Indonesia

Journal of Global Management, 2011, vol. 2, issue 1, 84-97

Abstract: This study aims to examine the determinant factors of audit quality by proposing the hypothesis that the audit firm size (size public accounting firm) and audit fees (audit fees) have an effect on the audit quality. In this study, the unit of analysis is the external auditor who has worked in (Certified Public Accountant) CPA firm, the author takes the CPA Firm in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. This type of research is descriptive verification research, because it describes the variables and observes the correlation of these variables from the hypothesis that has been made systematically through statistical testing. The statistical test use path analysis and the examination of the hypothesis in this research using two ways: simultaneous test and individual test (partial), using t_test and f_test. Empirical test results that the CPA firm size does not significantly affect to audit quality in public accounting firm in Bandung, whereas the amount of audits significantly affect to quality of audit and simultaneously CPA firm size and audit fees do not significantly affect to quality of audit in public accounting firm in Bandung.

Keywords: audit firm size (CPA firm); audit fees; audit quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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