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Ceo Equity Incentives And Audit Fees, Yongtae Kim, Haidan Li, Siqi Li
Ceo Equity Incentives And Audit Fees, Yongtae Kim, Haidan Li, Siqi Li
Accounting
This study examines whether CEO equity incentives have an impact on audit pricing. Prior studies investigate whether CEO equity incentives motivate executives to manage earnings for personal financial gains. Our focus is on whether auditors perceive CEO equity incentives to be associated with greater earnings manipulation risk and incorporate such risk in their pricing decisions. We find that CEO equity portfolio vega is positively related to audit fees after controlling for other determinants of audit fees, while equity portfolio delta is not significantly related to audit fees. This result holds after we account for potential endogeneity. The evidence suggests that …