Environmental policy and audit pricing

IF 2.2 3区管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE

Journal of Business Finance & Accounting Pub Date : 2024-03-29 DOI:10.1111/jbfa.12799

Monika K. Rabarison, Ibrahim Siraj, Bin Wang

引用次数: 0

Abstract

This paper examines the effect of environmental policy stringency (EPS) on audit pricing. By exploiting the exogenous variation in environmental policies across 26 countries, we find that firms in countries with more stringent environmental policies incur lower audit fees. The inverse association is more pronounced in common law countries, in countries with a higher level of public enforcement of regulations and in countries with more investor protection. The lower audit fees are also more prominent for firms that are followed by more analysts and firms that have a greater institutional ownership. Furthermore, we find that firms in countries with strong regulations are better and more innovative at managing environmental risk, which implies that better environmental performance of the firms following stronger regulations could lower business risks and thus decrease audit fees. Overall, our findings suggest that compliant firms benefit from EPS.

查看原文本刊更多论文

环境政策和审计定价

本文研究了环境政策严格性（EPS）对审计定价的影响。通过利用 26 个国家环境政策的外生差异，我们发现环境政策更严格的国家的公司审计费用更低。在英美法系国家、公共法规执行水平较高的国家以及投资者保护较强的国家，这种反向关联更为明显。对于受到更多分析师关注的公司和拥有更多机构所有权的公司来说，审计费用较低的情况也更为突出。此外，我们还发现，监管力度大的国家的公司在管理环境风险方面做得更好、更有创新性，这意味着监管力度大的公司在环境方面的表现更好，可以降低经营风险，从而降低审计费用。总之，我们的研究结果表明，合规企业能从 EPS 中获益。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of Business Finance & Accounting BUSINESS, FINANCE-

CiteScore

4.40

自引率

17.20%

发文量

期刊介绍： Journal of Business Finance and Accounting exists to publish high quality research papers in accounting, corporate finance, corporate governance and their interfaces. The interfaces are relevant in many areas such as financial reporting and communication, valuation, financial performance measurement and managerial reward and control structures. A feature of JBFA is that it recognises that informational problems are pervasive in financial markets and business organisations, and that accounting plays an important role in resolving such problems. JBFA welcomes both theoretical and empirical contributions. Nonetheless, theoretical papers should yield novel testable implications, and empirical papers should be theoretically well-motivated. The Editors view accounting and finance as being closely related to economics and, as a consequence, papers submitted will often have theoretical motivations that are grounded in economics. JBFA, however, also seeks papers that complement economics-based theorising with theoretical developments originating in other social science disciplines or traditions. While many papers in JBFA use econometric or related empirical methods, the Editors also welcome contributions that use other empirical research methods. Although the scope of JBFA is broad, it is not a suitable outlet for highly abstract mathematical papers, or empirical papers with inadequate theoretical motivation. Also, papers that study asset pricing, or the operations of financial markets, should have direct implications for one or more of preparers, regulators, users of financial statements, and corporate financial decision makers, or at least should have implications for the development of future research relevant to such users.