{"title":"The Role of Competitive Bidding in the Market for Initial Attest Engagements","authors":"J. Bedard, Michael L. Ettredge, Karla M. Zehms","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.197868","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the effects of competitive bidding on clients' and service providers' decisions. We examine the determinants of clients' decisions to choose private negotiations (i.e., only one bidder) versus competitive bidding (i.e., multiple bidders) and the effect of that choice on the bidding firm's engagement planning and bid pricing decisions. The data used to conduct this examination include actual evaluations of prospective clients for whom the participating firm's personnel decided to issue an engagement bid during 1997 and 1998. Our findings reveal various cost-benefit tradeoffs involved in clients' decisions to choose private negotiations versus competitive bidding. Results also show that competitive bidding is associated with an increase in planned engagement effort, an increase in the use of quality-enhancing personnel allocations, and reduced fee rates.","PeriodicalId":180033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Accounting Abstracts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Accounting Abstracts","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.197868","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper investigates the effects of competitive bidding on clients' and service providers' decisions. We examine the determinants of clients' decisions to choose private negotiations (i.e., only one bidder) versus competitive bidding (i.e., multiple bidders) and the effect of that choice on the bidding firm's engagement planning and bid pricing decisions. The data used to conduct this examination include actual evaluations of prospective clients for whom the participating firm's personnel decided to issue an engagement bid during 1997 and 1998. Our findings reveal various cost-benefit tradeoffs involved in clients' decisions to choose private negotiations versus competitive bidding. Results also show that competitive bidding is associated with an increase in planned engagement effort, an increase in the use of quality-enhancing personnel allocations, and reduced fee rates.