Audit claims

Objectives: The present study aims to investigate the impact of political communication on the risk of lawsuits against auditors, considering the role of audit quality. Design/methodology/approach: This research is applied and, from a methodological standpoint, is causal correlation. The statistical population of the study consisted of all firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. Using systematic sampling, 131 firms were selected as the study sample and studied over a 7-year period from 2016 to 2022. Results: The results of testing the research hypotheses showed a relationship between political communication and the risk of lawsuits against auditors in the first hypothesis. The second hypothesis demonstrated the effect of the interaction of audit quality and political communication on lawsuits against auditors. Innovation: This ongoing research provides evidence that political communication reduces the risk of lawsuits against auditors and improves the quality of auditing.