Financial Data Analysis-The Impact of External Auditor Types on Cost Stickiness: Evidence from China
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- 10.2991/978-94-6463-102-9_99How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Big four international’; Cost stickiness; Data analysis
- Abstract
External audit is an important part of corporate governance. It can effectively restrain the behavior of management, so as to restrain the occurrence of corporate cost stickiness. The software tool of this article is SAS, our analysis tool is regression analysis method. We use the data drawn from GSMAR database and the time range is 2011 to 2019. prove that companies in China have cost stickiness or not. Also, the empirical test shows that the companies select ‘Big four international’ audits will reduce the cost stickiness. The result show that the cost stickiness of companies select the ‘Big four international’ is significantly reduced. This proves that the audit quality of the ‘Big four international’ is relatively high to some extent. This study deepens the impact of external audit on cost stickiness. ‘Big four international’ audit has a positive impact on cost stickiness. It is helpful for our companies to reduce the cost stickiness.
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TY - CONF AU - Tingting Li AU - Zhenning Zhang PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/29 TI - Financial Data Analysis-The Impact of External Auditor Types on Cost Stickiness: Evidence from China BT - Proceedings of the 2022 2nd International Conference on Business Administration and Data Science (BADS 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 959 EP - 965 SN - 2589-4900 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-102-9_99 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-102-9_99 ID - Li2022 ER -