Impact of managerial overconfidence on abnormal audit fee: From the perspective of balance mechanism of shareholders

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 15; no. 9; p. e0238450
• Main Authors: He, Xing-Xing, Xie, De-Cong, Hu, Ze-Min, Bao, Xing-Li, Li, Lin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 10.09.2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Accounting; Auditing; Auditors; Audits; Biology and Life Sciences; Business schools; Computer and Information Sciences; Corporate governance; Correlation; Decision making; Gender; Managers; Overconfidence (Psychology); Position measurement; Professional fees; Psychological aspects; Psychological research; Social Sciences; Stockholders; Theory; China
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238450

Overconfidence, as a psychological feature that is difficult to measure, means that managers are overconfident in their management ability, investment judgment ability and knowledge richness, thus overestimating their ability and making irrational behavior. Based on the sample of Chinese listed firms from 2014 to 2018, we measure managerial overconfidence in terms of age, gender, education, position and salary, and analyzed the relationship between overconfidence, abnormal audit fees, and the balance mechanism of shareholders. The research results show that there is a significant positive correlation between managerial overconfidence and abnormal audit fees, and the balance mechanism of shareholders can significantly inhibit the positive correlation between managerial overconfidence and abnormal audit fees. The research results of this paper are conducive to the supervision department to further improve the relevant supervision measures, improve the audit quality, and provide theoretical support for the more specific requirements of audit fee information disclosure.