The paper advocates a ‘super-audit’ that assesses the company's future and what that says about the share price or another valuation. Most audit ‘failures’ relate to an assessment of the future whether that be going concern issues, impairments, long-term contracts, provisions, likely changes in the business environment and so forth. The paper suggests a focus on improving the auditor's skills in assessing the future and the leverage of such skills to look at market value added and the share price as a service to the investment community and those who rely on share prices being fair and reasonable. The super-audit report becomes akin to an investment analyst's research report and intended to be an influence on share prices. Many companies around the world currently receive little, or no, or low-quality research coverage. Inevitably many unanswered questions remain for the super-audit about appointment, remuneration, timings, legal liability, professional education and so forth. They are challenging but not insurmountable and make us think more deeply about the same challenges in relation to the conventional audit. The biggest challenge is how the auditor should progress the process of understanding the business and its future.
{"title":"The super-auditor, perpetual beta and pervasive performativity","authors":"David Hatherly","doi":"10.1111/ijau.12263","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijau.12263","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The paper advocates a ‘super-audit’ that assesses the company's future and what that says about the share price or another valuation. Most audit ‘failures’ relate to an assessment of the future whether that be going concern issues, impairments, long-term contracts, provisions, likely changes in the business environment and so forth. The paper suggests a focus on improving the auditor's skills in assessing the future and the leverage of such skills to look at market value added and the share price as a service to the investment community and those who rely on share prices being fair and reasonable. The super-audit report becomes akin to an investment analyst's research report and intended to be an influence on share prices. Many companies around the world currently receive little, or no, or low-quality research coverage. Inevitably many unanswered questions remain for the super-audit about appointment, remuneration, timings, legal liability, professional education and so forth. They are challenging but not insurmountable and make us think more deeply about the same challenges in relation to the conventional audit. The biggest challenge is how the auditor should progress the process of understanding the business and its future.</p>","PeriodicalId":47092,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Auditing","volume":"26 1","pages":"23-26"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42848987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rebuilding trust and the role of audit: The impact of the UK audit reform proposals on other standard-setters","authors":"Roger Simnett","doi":"10.1111/ijau.12271","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijau.12271","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47092,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Auditing","volume":"26 1","pages":"32-36"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46976301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The goal of various audit industry reforms is to better align the interests of the auditor with external stakeholders. These proposed reforms ignore the fundamental conflict of interest—‘the client’ hires, fires and determines the compensation for the auditor. This problem is fundamental in that ‘the client’ is normally the management or board of the firm who, on occasion, have reason to want to take advantage of the inherent imprecision in accounting for their benefit and subtlety pressure the auditor to achieve this. My evidence-based proposal takes advantage of the well-known aversion of managers and boards to government intervention. It incentivizes management and boards to demand rigorous audits by requiring regulatory bodies impose their choice of auditor on public companies that meet well-specified criteria that indicate poor-quality reporting (e.g., restatement of financial statements). This proposed reform retains the ‘on average’ benefits that extant research shows the current system of private sector auditing provides while stimulating greater managerial and director self-interest in high-quality financial reporting.
{"title":"Redressing the fundamental conflict of interest in public company audits","authors":"Steven E. Salterio","doi":"10.1111/ijau.12269","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijau.12269","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The goal of various audit industry reforms is to better align the interests of the auditor with external stakeholders. These proposed reforms ignore the fundamental conflict of interest—‘the client’ hires, fires and determines the compensation for the auditor. This problem is fundamental in that ‘the client’ is normally the management or board of the firm who, on occasion, have reason to want to take advantage of the inherent imprecision in accounting for their benefit and subtlety pressure the auditor to achieve this. My evidence-based proposal takes advantage of the well-known aversion of managers and boards to government intervention. It incentivizes management and boards to demand rigorous audits by requiring regulatory bodies impose their choice of auditor on public companies that meet well-specified criteria that indicate poor-quality reporting (e.g., restatement of financial statements). This proposed reform retains the ‘on average’ benefits that extant research shows the current system of private sector auditing provides while stimulating greater managerial and director self-interest in high-quality financial reporting.</p>","PeriodicalId":47092,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Auditing","volume":"26 1","pages":"48-53"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47088885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Audit down but not out","authors":"Claire Grayston","doi":"10.1111/ijau.12262","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijau.12262","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47092,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Auditing","volume":"26 1","pages":"8-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48020162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. A. Kamarudin, A. Islam, Wan Adibah Wan Ismail, M. Jahan
{"title":"The effect of mandatory audit firm rotation and the auditing and reporting standards on the auditor competition and audit fees relationship: Evidence from emerging markets","authors":"K. A. Kamarudin, A. Islam, Wan Adibah Wan Ismail, M. Jahan","doi":"10.1111/ijau.12276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijau.12276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47092,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Auditing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47601577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Šárka Štěpánková, Noel Harding, Diane M. Mayorga, K. Trotman
{"title":"Using more effective instructional verbs to elevate auditors' professional scepticism","authors":"Šárka Štěpánková, Noel Harding, Diane M. Mayorga, K. Trotman","doi":"10.1111/ijau.12275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijau.12275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47092,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Auditing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47219278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Professional skepticism through audit praxis: An Aristotelian perspective","authors":"Nonna Martinov-Bennie, M. Dyball, D. Tweedie","doi":"10.1111/ijau.12258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijau.12258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47092,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Auditing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43019289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper investigates the impact of four key transnational factors (i.e., cultural, educational, legal and political factors) on the diffusion and early adoption of International Standards on Auditing (ISAs). Using data for 162 countries over 1995–2014 (i.e., 3240 observations) and drawing on distinctive insights from diffusion theory, we found that common law countries tend to adopt ISAs faster than civil law countries. Our findings also show that vigorous legal enforcement and shareholder protection regimes promote the early adoption of ISAs, whereas robust judicial efficiency systems constrain the early adoption of ISAs. In addition, our results show that higher literacy rates and educational attainment simulate the earlier diffusion of ISAs. We also find that higher levels of individualism and uncertainty avoidance, but low levels of power distance cultural values, boost the early adoption of ISAs. Finally, our results report that countries with strong political stability and control of corruption tend to adopt ISAs faster than those with solid government effectiveness.
{"title":"Diffusion theory, transnational antecedents and International Standards on Auditing adoption around the world","authors":"Ibrahim K. Elmghaamez, Mohamed H. Elmagrhi","doi":"10.1111/ijau.12273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijau.12273","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the impact of four key transnational factors (i.e., cultural, educational, legal and political factors) on the diffusion and early adoption of International Standards on Auditing (ISAs). Using data for 162 countries over 1995–2014 (i.e., 3240 observations) and drawing on distinctive insights from diffusion theory, we found that common law countries tend to adopt ISAs faster than civil law countries. Our findings also show that vigorous legal enforcement and shareholder protection regimes promote the early adoption of ISAs, whereas robust judicial efficiency systems constrain the early adoption of ISAs. In addition, our results show that higher literacy rates and educational attainment simulate the earlier diffusion of ISAs. We also find that higher levels of individualism and uncertainty avoidance, but low levels of power distance cultural values, boost the early adoption of ISAs. Finally, our results report that countries with strong political stability and control of corruption tend to adopt ISAs faster than those with solid government effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":47092,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Auditing","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139375392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1057/9781137360014.0030
R. Murphy
{"title":"The future of auditing","authors":"R. Murphy","doi":"10.1057/9781137360014.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137360014.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47092,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Auditing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48954099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article provides evidence of the relations between disclosures in the management report of conditions that could challenge the continuance of operations, auditors' going concern reporting and the likelihood of bankruptcy for privately held firms in an environment characterized by low litigation risk. We conduct a matched case – control study using data for 125 firms filing for liquidation bankruptcy and 125 non-bankrupt firms. The results show that disclosures in the management report and auditors' going concern modifications are positively associated with the likelihood of bankruptcy and that their predictive ability is incremental to the control factors. Despite the lower litigation pressure facing private Swedish firms, the informational value of going concern disclosures is comparable with those in litigious environments.
{"title":"Do going concern disclosures in the management report and audit report signal bankruptcy risk? Evidence from privately held firms","authors":"Irina V. Alexeyeva, S. Sundgren","doi":"10.1111/ijau.12257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijau.12257","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides evidence of the relations between disclosures in the management report of conditions that could challenge the continuance of operations, auditors' going concern reporting and the likelihood of bankruptcy for privately held firms in an environment characterized by low litigation risk. We conduct a matched case – control study using data for 125 firms filing for liquidation bankruptcy and 125 non-bankrupt firms. The results show that disclosures in the management report and auditors' going concern modifications are positively associated with the likelihood of bankruptcy and that their predictive ability is incremental to the control factors. Despite the lower litigation pressure facing private Swedish firms, the informational value of going concern disclosures is comparable with those in litigious environments.","PeriodicalId":47092,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Auditing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47302051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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