“…; Chung and Kallapur ), going‐concern opinions (DeFond, Raghunandan, and Subramanyam ; Geiger and Rama ; and Callaghan, Parkash, and Singhal ), restatements (Kinney, Palmrose, and Scholz ; Raghunandan, Read, and Whisenant ), and earnings conservatism (Ruddock, Taylor, and Taylor ). Overall, the consensus derived from prior research suggests that the level of NAS fees does not, in general, have an adverse impact on audit quality (DeFond and Francis ; Francis ; Schneider, Church, and Ely ; Bloomfield and Shackman ; Lim and Tan ; Habib ).…”