In December 2001, the China Securities Regulatory Commission promulgated “Standards Concerning the
Contents and Formats of Information Disclosure by Companies Offering Securities to the Public No. 2-Contents
and Formats of Annual Reports (Revised in 2001)” and “Question and Answer Document Concerning
the Standards of Information Disclosure by Companies Offering Securities to the Public No. 6-Payments to
Accounting Firms and Disclosure.” These documents state that listed companies are required to disclose their
audit fees in their annual reports from 2001 onwards. The new regulations prompted a number of Chinese
scholars to carry out empirical studies of audit fees using data from Chinese listed companies. Most of these
studies adopt the model developed by Simunic (1980) and use financial variables (Liu and Hu, 2006). Wang
(2002) was one of the first in China to investigate audit fees empirically. He reports the scale of the auditee and
audit firm, audit complexity and audit risk, the industry in which the auditee operates and whether the auditee
receives a qualified opinion to have an effect on audit fees. Wu (2003) cites auditee scale, whether an auditee
has been audited by one of the Big 5, audit opinion, ratio of accounts receivable to total assets and the ratio of
inventory to total assets as the main factors influencing audit fees. Han and Zhou (2003) find the auditee’s
total assets, audit opinion, number of consolidated subsidiaries and debt ratio to be significantly related to
audit fees.
In December 2001, the China Securities Regulatory Commission promulgated “Standards Concerning the
Contents and Formats of Information Disclosure by Companies Offering Securities to the Public No. 2-Contents
and Formats of Annual Reports (Revised in 2001)” and “Question and Answer Document Concerning
the Standards of Information Disclosure by Companies Offering Securities to the Public No. 6-Payments to
Accounting Firms and Disclosure.” These documents state that listed companies are required to disclose their
audit fees in their annual reports from 2001 onwards. The new regulations prompted a number of Chinese
scholars to carry out empirical studies of audit fees using data from Chinese listed companies. Most of these
studies adopt the model developed by Simunic (1980) and use financial variables (Liu and Hu, 2006). Wang
(2002) was one of the first in China to investigate audit fees empirically. He reports the scale of the auditee and
audit firm, audit complexity and audit risk, the industry in which the auditee operates and whether the auditee
receives a qualified opinion to have an effect on audit fees. Wu (2003) cites auditee scale, whether an auditee
has been audited by one of the Big 5, audit opinion, ratio of accounts receivable to total assets and the ratio of
inventory to total assets as the main factors influencing audit fees. Han and Zhou (2003) find the auditee’s
total assets, audit opinion, number of consolidated subsidiaries and debt ratio to be significantly related to
audit fees.
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