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How Does an Audit or a Forensic Perspective Influence Auditors’ Fraud-Risk Assessment and Subsequent Risk Response? 审计或法务视角如何影响审计人员的舞弊风险评估和随后的风险应对?
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-12-21 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-19-125
Lawrence Chui, M. Curtis, Byron J Pike
This study examines whether priming auditors with a forensic perspective improves their fraud-risk assessments and subsequent audit-plan responses. We contribute to the literature by investigating a potential improvement in fraud detection that encourages auditors to take a forensic specialist’s perspective, while retaining the audit tenets of efficiently identifying and responding to risk. We prime auditors with a forensic perspective and compare their fraud performance to unprimed auditors in both low- and high-risk contexts, finding primed auditors assess fraud-risk significantly higher in all fraud-risk environments. In a high-risk environment, primed auditors propose a more appropriate audit-plan response. Relevant to fraud detection, these audit-plan modifications were consistent with those determined by a panel of audit and forensic experts. They exhibit a sensitivity in the low-risk environment, whereby their risk response is similar with that of the unprimed auditors. Finally, we find perspective-taking affects risk response through its influence on risk assessment.
本研究考察了法医学视角下的审计人员是否能提高他们的欺诈风险评估和随后的审计计划反应。我们通过调查欺诈检测的潜在改进,鼓励审计师采取法医专家的观点,同时保留有效识别和应对风险的审计原则,从而为文献做出贡献。我们从法医学的角度对审计人员进行了培训,并将他们在低风险和高风险环境下的欺诈表现与未培训的审计人员进行了比较,发现在所有欺诈风险环境中,培训的审计人员对欺诈风险的评估都要高得多。在高风险环境中,有经验的审计师会提出更合适的审计计划响应。与欺诈检测有关,这些审计计划修改与审计和法医专家小组确定的一致。他们在低风险环境中表现出敏感性,因此他们的风险反应与未入门的审计师相似。最后,我们发现换位思考通过对风险评估的影响来影响风险反应。
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引用次数: 3
Early Earnings Releases and the Role of Accounting Quality 盈余提前发布与会计质量的作用
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-12-09 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-17-127
S. Seavey, James D. Whitworth, Michael J Imhof
More than half of U.S. public companies announce earnings before audit completion. We examine how accounting quality, as a measure of the ex-ante reliability of earnings, affects the decision to release earnings early. Using four proxies for accounting quality, we show that firms with higher accounting quality are more likely to release earnings before a completed audit, and that the association is stronger when market demand for timely earnings is high. We provide evidence that accounting quality remains important in the timing of earnings release even after controlling for other factors which affect earnings reliability, such as managerial ability, auditor tenure, and financial reporting problems in a prior period. Overall we emphasize the role of accounting quality in the complex process of when to release earnings relative to audit completion, and suggest that the importance of the audit in the earnings release decision varies based on firm-specific accounting quality.
超过一半的美国上市公司在审计结束前就公布收益。我们研究会计质量,作为盈余事前可靠性的衡量,如何影响提前发布盈余的决定。通过使用会计质量的四个代理,我们发现会计质量较高的公司更有可能在审计完成之前发布盈余,并且当市场对及时盈余的需求较高时,这种关联更强。我们提供的证据表明,即使在控制了影响盈余可靠性的其他因素(如管理能力、审计师任期和前期财务报告问题)之后,会计质量在盈余发布时间方面仍然很重要。总体而言,我们强调会计质量在盈余发布时间相对于审计完成的复杂过程中的作用,并建议审计在盈余发布决策中的重要性因公司具体的会计质量而异。
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引用次数: 1
Confirmation Bias and Auditor Risk Assessments: Archival Evidence 确认偏误与审计师风险评估:档案证据
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-2020-035
Cory A. Cassell, Stuart M. Dearden, David Rosser, Jonathan E. Shipman
Judgment and decision making research suggests that auditors’ judgments are negatively affected by the use of heuristics. However, there is little research investigating whether such biases survive the quality control processes that regulators and audit firms implement to mitigate them. We investigate this by identifying a setting where one such bias – confirmation bias – is likely to manifest. Consistent with confirmation bias influencing observable audit outcomes, we find that auditors with previous experience auditing a client with a history of low risk followed by an increase in risk do not adequately respond to the higher level of risk. This effect is mitigated when the risk increase is likely large enough to violate auditors’ reasonableness constraint and when the client is highly visible or has strong external monitors. Our study complements prior experimental research by providing archival evidence that auditors’ use of heuristics has a significant effect on auditor judgments.
判断和决策研究表明,使用启发式会对审计师的判断产生负面影响。然而,很少有研究调查这些偏见是否在监管机构和审计公司实施的质量控制过程中幸存下来,以减轻它们。我们通过确定一个这样的偏见-确认偏见-可能表现的设置来调查这一点。与影响可观察审计结果的确认偏差一致,我们发现具有审计具有低风险历史的客户的经验的审计师在风险增加之后不能充分应对较高的风险水平。当风险增加可能大到足以违反审计师的合理性约束,当客户高度可见或有强大的外部监督时,这种影响就会减轻。我们的研究补充了先前的实验研究,提供了档案证据,证明审计师使用启发式对审计师的判断有显著影响。
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引用次数: 1
Disclosure of interim review reports: Do interim going concern conclusions have information content? 中期复核报告的披露:中期持续经营结论是否有信息内容?
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-19-041
Matthew Grosse, Tom Scott
This paper examines the information content of interim review assurance in the Australian mandatory disclosure setting. First, we find a strong negative market reaction to interim going concern conclusions (IGCC) contained in the review of interim financial statements. Second, we find no significant difference between the market reaction to IGCCs and annual going concern opinions (AGCO) received at the annual report audit. Finally, we show IGCCs are significant predictors of subsequent AGCOs, and provide incremental information from the previous annual report audit opinion. Overall, these results contribute to the literature on the benefits of mandatory interim assurance by showing that going concern conclusions contained in interim financial statements provide investors with new and relevant information.
本文考察了在澳大利亚强制披露背景下中期审查保证的信息内容。首先,我们发现市场对中期财务报表审查中包含的中期持续经营结论(IGCC)有强烈的负面反应。其次,我们发现市场对igcc的反应与在年度报告审计中收到的年度持续经营意见(AGCO)之间没有显著差异。最后,我们发现igcc是后续agco的重要预测因子,并提供了来自先前年度报告审计意见的增量信息。总体而言,这些结果通过表明中期财务报表中包含的持续经营结论为投资者提供了新的相关信息,从而为强制性中期保证的好处的文献做出了贡献。
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引用次数: 0
External Factors and the Pricing of Audit Services: A Systematic Review of the Archival Literature using a PESTLE Analysis 外部因素与审计服务定价:档案文献用杵状分析的系统回顾
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-11-18 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-2019-510
B. Eierle, Sven Hartlieb, D. Hay, L. Niemi, Hannu Ojala
Client- and auditor-related attributes are well-documented determinants of audit pricing but the number of empirical archival studies investigating the effects of external factors on audit pricing has grown rapidly in recent years. We extend the traditional framework used to classify audit fee research by adding a novel structure that focuses on political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental/ecological factors (a PESTLE analysis). We provide a systematic review of the literature on external factors and audit pricing, and we suggest opportunities for future research. Our review reveals that audit researchers focus on legal factors in terms of regulatory changes, and we find increased attention to political, economic, and social factors. However, despite increased public scrutiny, technological and environmental/ecological factors remain under-researched. Overall, our review demonstrates the importance of considering external factors to gain a more complete understanding of the audit pricing framework, especially in terms of global and regional variations.
与客户和审计师相关的属性是审计定价的充分证明的决定因素,但调查外部因素对审计定价影响的实证档案研究的数量近年来迅速增长。我们扩展了用于分类审计费用研究的传统框架,增加了一个新颖的结构,重点关注政治、经济、社会、技术、法律和环境/生态因素(PESTLE分析)。我们对外部因素和审计定价的文献进行了系统的回顾,并提出了未来研究的机会。我们的回顾显示,审计研究者关注的是监管变化方面的法律因素,我们发现对政治、经济和社会因素的关注有所增加。然而,尽管公众监督加强,技术和环境/生态因素仍未得到充分研究。总体而言,我们的回顾表明,考虑外部因素对于更全面地了解审计定价框架,特别是在全球和地区差异方面,是非常重要的。
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引用次数: 4
Using LIWC to Analyze Participants’ Psychological Processing in Accounting JDM Research 用LIWC分析会计JDM研究中被试的心理加工
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-11-09 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-2020-060
Sanaz Aghazadeh, Kris Hoang, B. Pomeroy
This paper provides methodological guidance for judgment and decision-making (JDM) researchers in accounting who are interested in using the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) text analysis program to analyze research participants’ written responses to open-ended questions. We discuss how LIWC’s measures of psychological constructs were developed and validated in psycholinguistic research. We then use data from an audit JDM study to illustrate the use of LIWC to guide researchers in identifying suitable measures, performing quality control procedures, and reporting the analysis. We also discuss research design considerations that will strengthen the inferences drawn from LIWC analysis. The paper concludes with examples where LIWC analysis has the potential to reveal participants’ deep, complex, effortful psychological processing and affective states from their written responses.
本文为有兴趣使用语言探究字数统计(LIWC)文本分析程序来分析研究参与者对开放式问题的书面回答的会计判断与决策(JDM)研究人员提供了方法学指导。我们讨论了LIWC的心理构式测量是如何在心理语言学研究中发展和验证的。然后,我们使用来自审计JDM研究的数据来说明使用LIWC来指导研究人员确定合适的措施,执行质量控制程序并报告分析。我们还讨论了研究设计方面的考虑,这将加强从LIWC分析中得出的推论。论文最后列举了一些例子,其中LIWC分析有可能从参与者的书面回答中揭示他们深刻、复杂、努力的心理过程和情感状态。
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引用次数: 0
Does the Length of the Cooling-off Period Affect Audit Quality? 冷静期的长短会影响审计质量吗?
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-19-091
Rebecca Mattocks, Ting‐Chiao Huang, Robyn A. Moroney, Ashna Prasad
This paper examines the association between the length of the cooling-off period and audit quality: (1) when partners rotate back and (2) during the cooling-off period, ahead of an extension to the minimum cooling-off period requirement in Australia. Using multiple measures of audit quality, we find some evidence of a positive association between the cooling-off period length and audit quality when partners rotate back, yet evidence of a negative association between the two, during the cooling-off period. We also find that auditor and client characteristics-such as partner busyness, client knowledge, geographic proximity, and client importance-play important roles in determining the cooling-off period length and whether a partner rotates back onto a client. Overall, we provide timely evidence that extending the cooling-off period only marginally enhances audit quality when a partner rotates back onto a client, and evidence of an unintended consequence of this policy during the cooling-off period.
本文考察了冷静期长度与审计质量之间的关系:(1)当合伙人轮换回来时,(2)在冷静期期间,在澳大利亚延长最低冷静期要求之前。使用审计质量的多种措施,我们发现一些证据表明,当合伙人轮换回来时,冷静期长度和审计质量之间存在正相关,但在冷静期两者之间存在负相关的证据。我们还发现,审计师和客户的特征——如合伙人的忙碌程度、客户的知识、地理位置和客户的重要性——在决定冷静期的长度以及合伙人是否会轮流回到客户身上发挥着重要作用。总体而言,我们及时提供了证据,证明当合伙人轮转回客户时,延长冷静期只会略微提高审计质量,并证明该政策在冷静期会产生意想不到的后果。
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引用次数: 2
Financial Statement Disaggregation and Auditor Effort 财务报表分解与审计师的工作
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-09-30 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-19-019
M. Beck, M. Glendening, Chris E. Hogan
We examine the consequences of firms' disaggregation choices for auditor effort and audited financial statements. We document a significant positive association between disaggregation and audit fees, our proxy for auditor effort. Using separate measures of disaggregation of smaller line items versus larger, obviously material, line items, we provide evidence that one of the avenues through which disaggregation may increase auditor effort is through changes in auditors' assessments of materiality for smaller line items, especially when financial statement scrutiny is high. We also find disaggregation (and the audit fees associated with disaggregation) constrain the ability of managers to manipulate earnings in the audited financial statements compared to the unaudited financial statements, suggesting the fee response to disaggregation is due to auditor effort. Lastly, we provide evidence that our results are not fully explained by client litigation risk or other client attributes driving disaggregation choices.
我们考察了公司拆分选择对审计师努力和审计财务报表的影响。我们记录了分类和审计费用(审计师努力的代理)之间的显著正相关关系。通过对较小的行项目与较大的、明显重要的行项目分别进行分类,我们提供的证据表明,分类可能增加审计师工作量的途径之一是改变审计师对较小行项目重要性的评估,特别是在财务报表审查高度严格的情况下。我们还发现,与未经审计的财务报表相比,分解(以及与分解相关的审计费用)限制了管理人员在经审计的财务报表中操纵收益的能力,这表明对分解的费用反应是由于审计师的努力。最后,我们提供的证据表明,我们的结果并不能完全由客户的诉讼风险或其他客户属性驱动分解选择来解释。
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引用次数: 3
Managing the Offshoring of Audit Work: Spanning the Boundaries Between Onshore and Offshore Auditors 管理离岸审计工作:跨越在岸和离岸审计师之间的界限
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-08-30 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-18-055
M. Canning, Brendan O’Dwyer, R. Boomsma
The offshoring of external audit work to so-called low-cost countries has become increasingly prevalent among the Big 4 professional services firms. Despite this, we have limited in-depth, contextually rich knowledge of how this form of offshoring influences audit practitioners and the audit process. Using a qualitative research approach, we unveil how and why offshoring emerges as an organizational matter which changes the way audit work is organized and perceived in a Big 4 firm context. We use the concept of boundary spanning to better understand the management and coordination of audit work across the multiple and overlapping boundaries that characterize audit offshoring arrangements. First, we demonstrate how changes in the design of offshoring processes influence the interactions between onshore and offshore auditors, thereby significantly impacting on audit work. Second, we uncover how individual "boundary spanners" frequently struggle to ensure the efficient and effective operation of offshoring, especially in their management of relations between onshore and offshore auditors. Third, we show how the institutionalization of boundary spanning functions in organizational structures and processes can have the unintended consequence of widening the boundaries between onshore and offshore auditors. Finally, we offer evidence of the effect of offshoring on the learning process of both onshore and offshore auditors.
在四大专业服务公司中,将外部审计工作外包到所谓的低成本国家已变得越来越普遍。尽管如此,我们对这种形式的离岸外包如何影响审计从业人员和审计过程的深入和丰富的背景知识有限。采用定性研究方法,我们揭示了离岸外包如何以及为什么作为一个组织问题出现,它改变了四大会计师事务所的审计工作组织和感知方式。我们使用边界跨越的概念来更好地理解跨多个和重叠边界的审计工作的管理和协调,这些边界是审计离岸安排的特征。首先,我们将展示离岸流程设计的变化如何影响在岸和离岸审计师之间的相互作用,从而对审计工作产生重大影响。其次,我们揭示了个人“边界跨越者”如何经常努力确保离岸外包的高效和有效运作,特别是在管理在岸和离岸审计师之间的关系方面。第三,我们展示了组织结构和流程中边界跨越功能的制度化如何产生扩大在岸和离岸审计师之间边界的意外后果。最后,我们提供了离岸外包对在岸和离岸审计师学习过程的影响的证据。
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引用次数: 1
Do Chief Audit Executives Matter? Evidence from Turnover Events 首席审计执行官重要吗?来自离职事件的证据
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-08-19 DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-2020-112
Gerald J. Lobo, Meng Lyu, Bing Wang, Joseph H. Zhang
We investigate the chief audit executive’s (CAE) internal audit supervisory role by examining the change in internal audit monitoring effectiveness following the turnover of CAEs. Using a sample of firms listed on the small and medium enterprise board of China’s stock exchange, we find that CAE turnover is accompanied by a reduction in financial reporting/internal control quality and that the reduction is more pronounced for firms whose successor CAEs have lower financial expertise than their predecessors. Further analysis shows that the negative association with financial reporting/internal control quality is stronger when the turnover is for personal reasons than when it is for internal transfer of the CAE. These findings are robust to a battery of sensitivity checks, including placebo tests and matching diagnostics. Our results highlight the importance of the CAE for a firm’s internal audit functions.
我们通过检查首席审计执行官(CAE)更替后内部审计监督有效性的变化来调查CAE的内部审计监督作用。以中国证券交易所中小企业板上市公司为样本,我们发现CAE的更替伴随着财务报告/内部控制质量的下降,并且对于继任CAE财务专业知识低于其前任的公司,这种下降更为明显。进一步分析表明,由于个人原因离职与财务报告/内部控制质量的负相关比由于CAE内部调动离职的负相关更强。这些发现在一系列的敏感性检查中是可靠的,包括安慰剂测试和匹配诊断。我们的研究结果强调了CAE对公司内部审计职能的重要性。
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