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The purpose of this paper is to review the empirical research literature dealing with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and auditing. The authors identify four main topics related to the effect of IFRS adoption on audit fees, audit market and audit report lag and the influence of auditor choice on IFRS compliance.

For each reviewed stream of research, the authors present its theoretical underpinning and summarize its main results.

Based on 26 empirical studies, the review reveals four main findings. First, IFRS adoption is associated with increased audit fees. Second, IFRS adoption has had an effect on audit market through auditor choice, audit switching and audit market concentration. Third, IFRS adoption has increased audit report lag. Finally, the authors document that audit quality, as proxied by auditor type, may play an important role in enforcing the compliance with IFRS.

For regulators the review highlights that IFRS adoption is associated with several effects dealing with audit cost (audit fees), audit efficiency (audit report lag) and may benefit audit firms with international affiliation compared to local ones and this may inform regulators in settings that plan to adopt IFRS in the future.

This literature review represents a historical record and an introduction for researchers who aim to investigate this topic in the future since the authors provide specific guidance for future research avenues for these reviewed strands of research and other unexplored topics related to auditing and IFRS.

This paper aims to review studies dealing with gender issues in accounting literature over the period of 1994-2016.

This study combines electronic and manual searches to identify relevant studies using keywords such as “gender” or “female” and “earnings quality” or “social and environmental disclosure” or “auditing” or “tax aggressiveness”. In total, 64 published studies were identified.

Three main streams of gender accounting literature related to financial reporting (earnings quality, accounting conservatism, voluntary disclosure), auditing (audit fees, audit opinion, audit report lag) and other miscellaneous topics were identified. Gender accounting literature uses empirical analysis, experimental approaches and interviews. Reviewed studies deal with top management gender (CEO, CFO), board of directors, audit committee and auditor gender. A synthesis of empirical findings shows that female representation on the board, audit committee, CFO or CEO leads to more conservative reporting, higher level of social and environmental disclosure, less tax aggressiveness and higher audit fees. Furthermore, auditor gender influences audit quality through lower abnormal accruals and shorter audit report lag, higher likelihood of issuing an adverse audit opinion and higher audit fees. Qualitative studies dealing with miscellaneous topics in gender accounting literature generally focus on the status of women in accounting and auditing professions, gender issues in accounting academic setting and disclosure about women in annual reports.

This review informs policymakers about the effect of female representation on accounting and auditing practices given the political debate largely shaped by anti-discriminatory arguments concerning the under-representation of women in management and audit professions.

This study goes beyond a classic narrative review by presenting criticisms to gender accounting literature and suggesting future research avenues.

This paper aims to investigate the moderating effect of cultural dimensions (masculinity, individualism and long-term orientation) on the association between profitability and corporate social and environmental disclosure (CSED).

The authors apply the meta-analysis technique developed by Hunter et al. (1982) and Hunter and Schmidt (2000) for a sample of 48 published studies over the period of the past 20 years.

The authors find that masculinity, individualism and long-term orientation moderate the association between profitability and CSED. Given the weight of US studies on the overall sample, the authors conduct a sensitivity analysis to examine how this factor may affect the findings. After excluding these studies, only long-term orientation and individualism remain strong moderators of the association between profitability and CSED.

This study provides further evidence on the impact of institutional frameworks on CSED. It has, also, policy implications for managers of multinational corporations.

The purpose of this article is to make a clear-cut distinction between tax evasion and neighbouring notions, present the theoretical justifications for the determinants of tax evasion, discuss some methodological issues related to the measurement of tax evasion and, finally, review the main results related to this topic and provide suggestions for future research. Tax evasion empirical research has been the subject of numerous studies during the past decade in developed and emerging economies.

This paper focuses specifically on cross-country empirical studies.

This paper shows that evidence is still limited, several approaches to measure tax evasion remain unexplored, results are mixed and four categories of variables have been identified in tax evasion literature, including demographic, cultural and behavioural, legal and institutional, and economic variables.

This literature review represents a historical record and an introduction for researchers who aim to examine this topic in the future.

The success of self-assessment tax system is voluntary compliance with the tax laws. When tax evasion is seen as unacceptable, taxpayers will tend to evade tax less. Hence, the understanding of taxpayers’ attitude on tax morality towards a tax system has to be enhanced to minimize tax evasion cases. The purposes of this study are to examine the relationship between tax fairness, tax knowledge, enforcement level and social exchange towards taxpayers’ attitude of tax morality under the self-assessment system in Malaysia and also to identify the relationship between taxpayers’ attitude of tax morality and taxpayers’ perceptions on tax evasion.

Data were collected from 400 taxpayers through a questionnaire and analysed.

From the analysis, it has been found out that tax knowledge is the most important tax system characteristic that affects taxpayers’ attitude of tax morality. In addition, taxpayers’ attitude of tax morality is significant to taxpayers’ perceptions on tax evasion in Malaysia.

The findings of this study would be useful for the government to further improve the present tax system to increase voluntary tax compliance.