uditors are professional who have technical competence in accounting and independence in performing audit works and reporting their opinions to the public. They are expected to reduce agency cost between shareholders (principle) and management (agent). When auditors receive audit fees from their audit clients as their compensation, a question may arise whether they compromise their independence and work for management instead of shareholders. Besides, audit fee comes from the negotiation between auditors and their audit clients and there is no specific rule from the regulatory body for quoting the audit fee. Thus, the concern that audit fee or economic dependence with clients will impair auditor’s independence becomes an issue. Auditors who receive high audit fee may allow client’s management to manipulate firms’ earnings