The Relationship between Audit Team Composition, Audit Fees, and Quality

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<jats:title>SUMMARY</jats:title> <jats:p>Using Japanese data, we investigate whether there is a positive association between audit team composition based on the number of senior auditors, assistant auditors, and other professional staff on the audit team and audit fees and a variety of commonly used measures of audit quality (likelihood of issuing a going concern opinion and a first-time going concern opinion for a sample of financially distressed companies, the absolute value of discretionary and working capital accruals). We find that the number of senior auditors, assistant auditors, and other professional staff on the audit team are positively associated with audit fees. We find that the number of senior auditors on the audit team has a positive association with audit quality. However, the number of assistant auditors and other professional staff on the audit team are not significantly associated with any of our audit quality measures.</jats:p> <jats:p>JEL Classifications: M41; M42.</jats:p> <jats:p>Data Availability: All data are publicly available from the sources indicated in the paper.</jats:p>

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