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Attracting the Next Generation of Accountants: The Joint Impact of Sustainability Emphasis and Social Value Orientation on Accounting Career Perceptions 吸引下一代会计师:可持续发展重点和社会价值取向对会计职业观念的共同影响
3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-2022-107
Eric Horne, Serena Loftus, Sarah Shonka McCoy, Amanda M. Winn
SUMMARY A consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic is that workers increasingly want work that aligns with their values. Given that Gen Z, the next generation of accountants, is characterized by a focus on ESG issues, we use an experiment to test whether emphasizing sustainability assurance roles attracts individuals to the profession and which types of individuals are most attracted. We find individuals are more interested in becoming accountants when sustainability assurance positions are emphasized, relative to financial positions. We further find individuals with a prosocial (but not proself) social value orientation drive this result due to the greater intrinsic appeal of sustainability jobs to these individuals. We also find some evidence that prosocial individuals exhibit lower professional skepticism than proself individuals, highlighting a potential negative consequence of attracting prosocial individuals to the profession. Our findings illuminate how the accounting profession can attract prosocial individuals and one implication of doing so.
2019冠状病毒病大流行的一个后果是,工人越来越希望工作符合他们的价值观。鉴于下一代会计师Z世代的特点是关注ESG问题,我们通过实验来测试强调可持续性保证角色是否会吸引个人加入该职业,以及哪种类型的个人最受吸引。我们发现,相对于财务职位,当可持续发展保证职位被强调时,个人对成为会计师更感兴趣。我们进一步发现,具有亲社会(而非自我)社会价值取向的个体推动了这一结果,因为可持续性工作对这些个体具有更大的内在吸引力。我们还发现一些证据表明,亲社会个体比专业个体表现出更低的职业怀疑主义,这突出了吸引亲社会个体进入职业的潜在负面后果。我们的研究结果阐明了会计职业如何吸引亲社会的个人,以及这样做的一个含义。
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Informativeness of Key Audit Matters: Evidence from China 关键审计事项的信息性:来自中国的证据
3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-2020-099
Beng Wee Goh, Jimmy Lee, Dan Li, Muzhi Wang
This study examines whether the key audit matters (KAMs) disclosed in expanded audit reports as a part of recent regulatory reforms are informative for investors in an emerging economy setting. Using the recent adoption of expanded audit reports for firms listed exclusively in Mainland China, we find robust evidence that the abnormal trading volume and earnings response coefficients are higher and that stock price synchronicity is lower during the postadoption than preadoption period. In additional tests, we find evidence that KAMs are more informative for non-state-owned enterprises, smaller firms, and firms with a smaller analyst following. Finally, we find that investors respond to the characteristics of KAM disclosures, providing corroborative evidence of the informativeness of these disclosures. Overall, our study provides systematic evidence that KAMs are incrementally informative for investors in an emerging economy. Data Availability: The data are available from the public sources cited in the text. JEL Classifications: M41; M42; M48.
摘要本研究考察了作为近期监管改革的一部分,在扩大审计报告中披露的关键审计事项(KAMs)是否对新兴经济体背景下的投资者具有信息价值。通过对中国大陆上市公司采用扩张型审计报告的实证研究,我们发现,采用扩张型审计报告后的异常交易量和盈余反应系数高于采用扩张型审计报告前的异常交易量和盈余反应系数,股价同同性低于采用扩张型审计报告前的异常交易量和盈余反应系数。在额外的测试中,我们发现证据表明KAMs对于非国有企业、较小的公司和具有较小分析师跟随的公司更具信息性。最后,我们发现投资者对KAM披露的特征有反应,这为这些披露的信息性提供了佐证。总的来说,我们的研究提供了系统的证据,证明KAMs对新兴经济体的投资者具有增量信息。数据可用性:数据可从文本中引用的公共来源获得。JEL分类:M41;M42;M48。
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The Value of Auditor Verification Amid Economic Uncertainty: International Evidence from Small Businesses 经济不确定性下审计师核查的价值:来自小型企业的国际证据
3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-2022-104
Xi Ai, Chenxi Lin, Nathan J. Newton
SUMMARY We examine the value of auditor verification to small businesses when they face economic uncertainty. The COVID-19 pandemic was a significant, exogenous economic shock that immediately heightened the need for external funding for many companies. Using a sample of small, private companies from 21 countries, we examine how the receipt of an audit prior to the pandemic affects the primary type of financing companies obtain during the pandemic. We find that companies with audited financial statements available are more inclined to secure primary funding from bank loans rather than from equity contributions from existing owners or new investors. However, an audit is not associated with primary funding from government sources. We also document that businesses benefit most from an audit when information asymmetry and economic disruption are relatively high and when the supply of government liquidity support is relatively low. Data Availability: Data are available from the public sources cited in the text. JEL Classifications: M21; M42.
摘要:我们研究了当小企业面临经济不确定性时,审计师验证的价值。2019冠状病毒病大流行是一场重大的外生经济冲击,立即加剧了许多公司对外部资金的需求。我们以来自21个国家的小型私营公司为样本,研究大流行前收到审计报告如何影响公司在大流行期间获得的主要融资类型。我们发现,拥有经审计财务报表的公司更倾向于从银行贷款中获得主要资金,而不是从现有所有者或新投资者的股权出资中获得资金。但是,审计与来自政府来源的主要资金无关。我们还发现,当信息不对称和经济混乱程度相对较高、政府流动性支持供应相对较低时,企业从审计中获益最多。数据可用性:数据可从文本中引用的公共来源获得。JEL分类:M21;M42。
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Cataloging the Marketplace of Assurance Services 对保证服务市场进行编目
3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-2022-196
Tim D. Bauer, J. Efrim Boritz, Krista Fiolleau, Bradley Pomeroy, Adam Vitalis, Pei Wang
SUMMARY We identify 33 areas where assurance services other than financial statement audits are currently offered or are emerging and conduct an extensive web search to document the contextual features of the services in each area. Using a framework for the expansion of assurance services, we analyze these features by asking: (1) Does the subject matter relate to financial information or controls? (2) Are criteria available to evaluate the subject matter? The answers allow us to categorize each area based on whether it represents an expansion opportunity to a traditional, but hypothetical, CPA firm. We then compare our expectations against observed areas where real-world firms have a presence. Finally, we report on two roundtables with senior assurance leaders to validate our findings and enhance our understanding of what is needed for each area to become, or continue to be, well-positioned for expansion by CPA firms.
我们确定了目前提供或正在出现除财务报表审计以外的鉴证服务的33个领域,并进行了广泛的网络搜索,以记录每个领域服务的背景特征。使用扩展保证服务的框架,我们通过以下问题来分析这些特征:(1)主题事项是否与财务信息或控制相关?(2)是否有评估主题的标准?这些问题的答案使我们能够对每个领域进行分类,根据它是否代表着传统的(但假设的)注册会计师事务所的扩张机会。然后,我们将我们的预期与现实世界中公司存在的观察领域进行比较。最后,我们报告了与高级鉴证负责人的两次圆桌会议,以验证我们的发现,并加深我们对每个领域需要什么才能成为或继续成为会计师事务所扩张的有利条件的理解。
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Covers and Front Matter 封面及封面
3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI: 10.2308/0278-0380-42.4.i
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Technology and Evidence in Non-Big 4 Assurance Engagements: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic 非四大审计业务中的技术和证据:来自COVID-19大流行的见解
3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-2022-068
Elizabeth C. Altiero, Lisa Baudot, Mouna Hazgui
SUMMARY We interviewed 30 assurance professionals in the United States regarding how and to what extent non-Big 4 firms incorporated technologies into assurance engagements during the COVID-19 pandemic. Informed by technology acceptance models, our findings show that the pandemic played an accelerator role, prompting an open attitude toward experimenting with technologies in assurance engagements. This experimentation increased perceptions of the usefulness of technology in engagement efficiency, given easier and faster evidence gathering. However, the readiness and security of clients’ systems remain barriers in evidence gathering. Assurance professionals perceive technology as useful in producing better quality evidence evaluation, with usage stymied by challenges related to source data integrity, naive use of tools, and distrust of outputs limiting the extent of change in evidence evaluation. Our study indicates more modest technology gains in evidence evaluation than in evidence gathering during the pandemic due to barriers with higher stakes, often tied to assurance conclusions.
我们采访了美国的30位鉴证专业人士,了解在COVID-19大流行期间,非四大会计师事务所如何以及在多大程度上将技术纳入鉴证业务。根据技术接受模型,我们的研究结果表明,疫情发挥了加速作用,促使人们对在鉴证业务中试验技术持开放态度。这一实验提高了人们对技术在参与效率方面的有用性的认识,使证据收集变得更容易和更快。然而,客户系统的准备和安全性仍然是证据收集的障碍。鉴证专业人员认为,技术有助于产生更高质量的证据评估,但由于与源数据完整性相关的挑战、工具的幼稚使用以及对限制证据评估变化程度的输出的不信任,技术的使用受到了阻碍。我们的研究表明,在大流行期间,由于风险较高的障碍(通常与保证结论有关),证据评估方面的技术进步比证据收集方面的技术进步更为有限。
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The Impact of the Type of Cybersecurity Assurance Service and Cybersecurity Incidents on Investor Perceptions and Decisions 网络安全保障服务类型和网络安全事件对投资者认知和决策的影响
3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-19-022
Rebecca R. Perols
SUMMARY Regulators, investors, and boards of directors are increasingly demanding information about organizations’ cybersecurity risk management. I examine the effect of the AICPA’s voluntary cybersecurity examination service on investor perceptions and decisions. Similar to a previous AICPA IT-related assurance service called WebTrust that failed in the marketplace, cybersecurity examinations face competition from less comprehensive and less costly assurance services in a nonstandardized assurance market, and it is unclear whether investors will recognize the value provided by the more comprehensive assurance service. I find that investors are more willing to invest when management disclosures describe a cybersecurity examination compared with a less comprehensive assurance service but only if the assurance is in response to a cybersecurity incident. I also find that this effect is mediated by investor perceptions of assurance quality. I, however, do not find support for these same effects when the assurance is disclosed in the absence of an incident.
监管机构、投资者和董事会对企业网络安全风险管理的要求越来越高。我检查了美国注册会计师协会的自愿网络安全审查服务对投资者的看法和决策的影响。与之前美国注册会计师协会(AICPA)在市场上失败的一项名为WebTrust的与it相关的保证服务类似,在非标准化的保证市场上,网络安全考试面临着不太全面、成本更低的保证服务的竞争,目前尚不清楚投资者是否会认识到更全面的保证服务所提供的价值。我发现,与不太全面的保证服务相比,当管理层披露描述了网络安全检查时,投资者更愿意投资,但前提是保证是针对网络安全事件的。我还发现,这种影响是由投资者对担保质量的看法介导的。然而,如果在没有发生事故的情况下披露这种保证,我找不到同样的证据。
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Corporate Monitoring and Misreporting: The Role of Rules-Based and Principles-Based Accounting Standards 公司监督和误报:基于规则和基于原则的会计准则的作用
3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-2022-185
Li Fang, Jeffrey Pittman, Yinqi Zhang, Yuping Zhao
SUMMARY Prior research provides some evidence that strict corporate monitoring constrains financial misreporting. We examine whether the efficacy of various corporate monitoring mechanisms hinges on the nature of accounting standards—rules-based standards (RBS) versus principles-based standards (PBS)—in place. We generally document that the negative association between the likelihood of misstatements and tough monitoring by audit committees, boards, external auditors, and the SEC is more pronounced under RBS than under PBS. This evidence collectively suggests that most corporate gatekeepers fulfill their monitoring obligations primarily through ensuring better compliance with detailed standards when the applicable standards are more specific and leave less room for discretion. Although some prior studies document higher financial reporting quality under PBS, our results imply that it is important for regulators to also consider the potentially higher monitoring efficacy under RBS when setting accounting standards. Data Availability: Data are available from the public sources cited in the text. JEL Classifications: M40; M42.
先前的研究提供了一些证据,证明严格的公司监管限制了财务误报。我们研究了各种公司监督机制的有效性是否取决于会计准则的性质——基于规则的准则(RBS)和基于原则的准则(PBS)。我们一般认为,与PBS相比,苏格兰皇家银行的错报可能性与审计委员会、董事会、外部审计师和SEC的严格监督之间的负相关关系更为明显。这些证据共同表明,大多数公司的看门人主要通过确保更好地遵守详细的标准来履行其监督义务,而适用的标准更具体,并且留给裁量权的空间更小。尽管先前的一些研究表明PBS下的财务报告质量更高,但我们的研究结果表明,监管机构在制定会计准则时,也应考虑RBS下潜在的更高的监控效能。数据可用性:数据可从文本中引用的公共来源获得。JEL分类:M40;M42。
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Auditor Communication Provisions in Private Loan Agreements: Do They Matter? 私人贷款协议中的审计师沟通条款:重要吗?
3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-2021-059
Lin Cheng, Jacob Jaggi, Paul N. Michas, Jeffrey Schatzberg
SUMMARY We examine auditor communication provisions (ACPs) in private loan agreements, which are private contracting mechanisms establishing communication between lenders and their borrowers’ auditors. We provide evidence that lenders value auditor communications and often specify different types of ACPs that facilitate lender monitoring. With predictable variation across the different ACP types, ACPs are associated with larger loans, longer maturities, larger loan syndicates, more financial covenants, and greater slack in financial covenants. In examining audit effort implications for borrowers, we find that ACPs are associated with higher audit fees and longer audit report lags. This is consistent with auditors responding to the litigation risk ACPs impose. In samples where the risk of third-party litigation is greater, the association between ACPs and audit effort proxies is heightened, suggesting the increased litigation risk brought about by ACPs interacts with other audit client-specific risk factors. Data Availability: Data are available from the public sources cited in the text. JEL Classifications: M42; D82; G21; G30; K40.
我们研究了私人贷款协议中的审计师沟通条款(acp),这是建立贷款人和借款人审计师之间沟通的私人合同机制。我们提供的证据表明,贷款人重视审计师的沟通,并经常指定不同类型的acp,以促进贷款人的监督。由于不同ACP类型之间存在可预测的差异,ACP与更大的贷款、更长的期限、更大的贷款银团、更多的金融契约以及更宽松的金融契约相关。在审查审计工作对借款人的影响时,我们发现acp与较高的审计费用和较长的审计报告滞后有关。这与审计人员对acp施加的诉讼风险的回应是一致的。在第三方诉讼风险较大的样本中,acp与审计工作代理之间的关联增强,表明acp带来的诉讼风险增加与其他审计客户特定的风险因素相互作用。数据可用性:数据可从文本中引用的公共来源获得。JEL分类:M42;D82;G21;G30;K40。
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Does Goodwill-Related Critical Audit Matters Disclosure Influence Firms’ Financial Reporting Decisions? Evidence from Goodwill Impairment 与商誉相关的关键审计事项披露是否影响公司的财务报告决策?商誉减值证据
3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-2022-129
Nusrat Jahan, M. Sydul Karim
SUMMARY We investigate whether the new critical audit matters (CAMs) disclosure requirement for auditors under the PCAOB Standard AS 3101 affects audited firms’ financial reporting decisions in the context of goodwill impairment recognition. We argue that an auditor's intense engagement with management and the audit committee in the CAMs determination and evaluation process improves management's information sets. Specifically, we report that the propensity to recognize goodwill impairment loss increases for firms with goodwill-related CAM disclosure relative to those without. This result is more pronounced when the likelihood of expected impairment is higher, suggesting that CAMs reporting lowers managers’ discretion in delaying impairment loss recognition. Additionally, we find that goodwill-related CAM disclosure increases the length and use of uncertain words in goodwill-related footnote disclosure by management but has no significant impact on audit costs. Overall, these findings suggest that adopting CAMs requirements can reduce management's discretion in financial reporting decisions. Data Availability: Data are available from the public sources cited in the text. JEL Classifications: M41; M42.
摘要:我们调查了PCAOB准则as3101对审计师的新关键审计事项(CAMs)披露要求是否会影响被审计公司在商誉减值确认背景下的财务报告决策。我们认为,在CAMs的确定和评估过程中,审计师与管理层和审计委员会的密切接触改善了管理层的信息集。具体而言,我们报告说,与没有披露商誉相关CAM的公司相比,披露商誉相关CAM的公司确认商誉减值损失的倾向增加。当预期减值的可能性较高时,这一结果更为明显,这表明CAMs报告降低了管理人员延迟减值损失确认的自由裁量权。此外,我们发现与商誉相关的CAM披露增加了管理层在商誉相关脚注披露中不确定词的长度和使用,但对审计成本没有显著影响。总体而言,这些发现表明,采用CAMs要求可以减少管理层在财务报告决策中的自由裁量权。数据可用性:数据可从文本中引用的公共来源获得。JEL分类:M41;M42。
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