• Are Audit Partners’ Compensation and Audit Quality related to their consulting revenues? 

      Che, Limei; Langli, John Christian; Svanstrøm, Tobias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Recent accounting scandals have triggered renewed interest in the debate concerning whether audit firms should be banned from providing consulting services. Compared to the voluminous studies on consulting services to audit ...
    • Auditors’ Self-Assessment of Engagement Quality and the Role of Stakeholder Priority 

      Che, Limei; Myllymäki, Emma-Riikka; Svanstrøm, Tobias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This study investigates auditors’ assessment of the quality of their own audit engagements, utilising survey data gathered from a Big Four audit firm in Sweden. We first examine to what extent auditors’ self-reported audit ...
    • Do Audit Teams Affect Audit Production and Quality? Evidence from Audit Teams’ Industry Knowledge 

      Cahan, Steven F.; Che, Limei; Knechel, W. Robert; Svanstrøm, Tobias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We examine how the extent and distribution of industry knowledge within an audit team affectaudit outcomes. While prior research examining the role of auditors’industry knowledge focusesmainly on auditfirms, audit offices, ...
    • Do Audit Teams Affect Audit Production and Quality? Evidence from Audit Teams’ Industry Knowledge 

      Cahan, Steven F.; Che, Limei; Knechel, W. Robert; Svanstrøm, Tobias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We examine how the extent and distribution of industry knowledge within an audit team affect audit outcomes. While prior research examining the role of auditors' industry knowledge focuses mainly on audit firms, audit ...
    • Governance structure and firm performance in private family firms 

      Che, Limei; Langli, John Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Although a large proportion of firms are family owned and most family firms are private, our understanding of private family firms is limited. Using confidential information on family relationship between board members, ...
    • Har fravalg av revisor ført til dårligere finansieringsvilkår? 

      Langli, John Christian; Che, Limei (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      En rekke aksjeselskaper (ASer) valgte bort revisor i 2011. Dersom fravalget av revisor påvirket bankenes eller kreditorenes risikovurdering, er det rimelig å forvente at selskapene som valgte bort revisor vil få høyere ...
    • How Big-4 Firms Improve Audit Quality 

      Langli, John Christian; Hope, Ole-Kristian; Che, Limei (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper studies whether and how Big-4 firms provide higher-quality audits than non-Big-4 firms. Specifically, we first examine a Big-4 effect and then explore three sources of the Big-4 effect. To test the Big-4 effect, ...
    • Investors' performance and trading behavior on the Norwegian stock market 

      Che, Limei (Series of Dissertations;5/2011, Doctoral thesis, 2011)
      This dissertation examines investors’ performance and trading behavior on the Norwegian stock market, using a unique and extensive data set of monthly holdings of all the investors. The first paper studies how Norwegian ...
    • Team Composition and Labor Allocation in Audit Teams: A Descriptive Note 

      Che, Limei; Svanstrøm, Tobias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe, illustrate and provide a deeper understanding of team composition and labor allocation in audit teams by quantifying the exact value of resources at different levels of ...