The firm initially selected 307 audit engagements for internal quality control
reviews using a stratified sampling approach that resulted in oversampling
of engagements with higher perceived ABR (the exact selection criteria
remain private to the firm). For example, approximately one-third of the
original sample (113 out of 307 engagements) consists of first-year audits
where Arthur Andersen LLP had been the predecessor auditor.We delete 4
engagements for which the audits subject to review were not yet completed,
15 engagements because of missing data, 71 financial-services industry engagements,
and 44 engagements in the health care and government sectors,
and thus, are left with 173 usable engagements. These engagements
are from the high-technology, manufacturing, and merchandising sectors
studied in OSS.12 Of these 173 engagements, 5 have total assets in excess of
$6 billion, and thus, are considerably larger than the engagements studied
by OSS (their largest auditee has assets of about $5.5 billion) while 3 engagements
report zero usage of staff and other specialist hours.13 Since we
base large parts of our analysis on benchmarks derived from the OSS study,
and since labor mix comparisons are an important part of our analysis, we
The firm initially selected 307 audit engagements for internal quality control
reviews using a stratified sampling approach that resulted in oversampling
of engagements with higher perceived ABR (the exact selection criteria
remain private to the firm). For example, approximately one-third of the
original sample (113 out of 307 engagements) consists of first-year audits
where Arthur Andersen LLP had been the predecessor auditor.We delete 4
engagements for which the audits subject to review were not yet completed,
15 engagements because of missing data, 71 financial-services industry engagements,
and 44 engagements in the health care and government sectors,
and thus, are left with 173 usable engagements. These engagements
are from the high-technology, manufacturing, and merchandising sectors
studied in OSS.12 Of these 173 engagements, 5 have total assets in excess of
$6 billion, and thus, are considerably larger than the engagements studied
by OSS (their largest auditee has assets of about $5.5 billion) while 3 engagements
report zero usage of staff and other specialist hours.13 Since we
base large parts of our analysis on benchmarks derived from the OSS study,
and since labor mix comparisons are an important part of our analysis, we
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The firm initially selected 307 audit engagements for internal quality control
reviews using a stratified sampling approach that resulted in oversampling
of engagements with higher perceived ABR (the exact selection criteria
remain private to the firm). For example, approximately one-third of the
original sample (113 out of 307 engagements) consists of first-year audits
where Arthur Andersen LLP had been the predecessor auditor.We delete 4
engagements for which the audits subject to review were not yet completed,
15 engagements because of missing data, 71 financial-services industry engagements,
and 44 engagements in the health care and government sectors,
and thus, are left with 173 usable engagements. These engagements
are from the high-technology, manufacturing, and merchandising sectors
studied in OSS.12 Of these 173 engagements, 5 have total assets in excess of
$6 billion, and thus, are considerably larger than the engagements studied
by OSS (their largest auditee has assets of about $5.5 billion) while 3 engagements
report zero usage of staff and other specialist hours.13 Since we
base large parts of our analysis on benchmarks derived from the OSS study,
and since labor mix comparisons are an important part of our analysis, we
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