Auditor response to changing risk: money market funds during the financial crisis

Kyle D. Allen () and Drew B. Winters ()
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Kyle D. Allen: Boise State University
Drew B. Winters: Texas Tech University

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2021, vol. 56, issue 3, No 9, 1057-1086

Abstract: Abstract Audits provide monitoring for investors. The collapse of markets across the financial crisis made assets more difficult to value, which increased risk for auditors. The money markets were at the center of the financial crisis increasing audit engagement risk on money market funds, which at the time of the crisis were highly opaque. Measuring the response to increased engagement risk with audit fees, this study finds that auditors increase their fees for the riskiest class of funds. However, no evidence was found that audit fees increased as funds increased their holdings in the riskiest class of securities.

Keywords: Audit risk; Financial crisis; Money market funds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G24 G29 M42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s11156-020-00918-5

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