Reputational Implications for Partners After a Major Audit Failure: Evidence from China

We analyze whether audit partners suffered damage to their professional reputations with the demise of Zhongtianqin (ZTQ), formerly the largest audit firm in China, after an audit failure enabled a major client, Yinguangxia (YGX), to fraudulently exaggerate its earnings in a high-profile scandal res...

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Authors: He, Xianjie (Author) ; Pittman, Jeffrey A. (Author) ; Rui, Oliver Meng (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2016
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 138, Issue: 4, Pages: 703-722
Further subjects:B Audit Quality
B Partners’ reputation
B G32
B G34
B audit failure
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