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Study: Naming Audit Partners Boosts Audit Quality, Fees

February 22, 2012

A new study finds that naming the audit partner in an external auditor's report generally leads to better audits, but also drives up audit fees. The conclusions, by two management professors, are based on an analysis of how audits changed after Britain enacted a "signing provision." They found increases in three different measures of audit quality. Details inside.
 

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