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How Simple Changes to Language and Tick Marks Can Curtail the Ghost Ticking of Audit Procedures 如何简单地改变语言和打勾可以减少审计程序的打勾
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-03-13 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3720928
Jessica L. Buchanan, M. D. Piercey
Prior research shows that ghost ticking, or documenting audit work not actually performed, is a persistent threat to audit quality. We examine whether requiring self-references in audit workpapers (i.e., "I" performed the test) can effectively curtail ghost ticking, compared to other workpaper language that can be used in practice. We also design and test an alternative to tick marks (symbol-based notation commonly used in workpapers to describe the results of audit procedures), in which auditors select the same description of the procedure performed, but from a pre-populated drop-down list. Consistent with our hypotheses, we find that using both self-references and descriptions (as opposed to tick marks) jointly reduces ghost ticking, compared to when only one (or neither) of these are used. Overall, we demonstrate how two simple and easily implementable changes to language and tick marks can significantly curtail ghost ticking and therefore reduce its threat to audit quality.
先前的研究表明,幽灵滴答声,或没有实际执行的审计工作记录,是对审计质量的持续威胁。我们研究了在审计工作文件中要求自我引用(即,“我”执行了测试)是否可以有效地减少幽灵滴答,与其他可以在实践中使用的工作文件语言相比。我们还设计并测试了一种替代打勾标记的方法(通常在工作文件中用于描述审计过程结果的基于符号的表示法),在这种方法中,审计员可以从预填充的下拉列表中选择所执行过程的相同描述。与我们的假设一致,我们发现,与只使用其中一种(或两者都不使用)相比,同时使用自我引用和描述(而不是打勾标记)可以减少幽灵滴答声。总之,我们展示了对语言和打勾标记进行的两个简单且易于实现的更改如何能够显著减少“鬼打勾”,从而降低其对审计质量的威胁。
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引用次数: 2
Adherence to the Internal Audit Core Principles and Threats to Internal Audit Function Effectiveness 坚持内部审计核心原则及其对内部审计职能有效性的威胁
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-02-23 DOI: 10.2308/AJPT-19-072
Christopher G. Calvin
I investigate the impact that adherence to the Institute of Internal Auditors' Core Principles has on the likelihood that an internal auditor's effectiveness is threatened through pressure to modify valid audit findings. I use responses from the Institute of Internal Auditors' 2015 Common Body of Knowledge Practitioner Survey to show that higher adherence to the Core Principles by both internal audit staff and CAEs is associated with a lower likelihood of being pressured to modify audit findings. I also explore which of the ten Core Principles are dominant in explaining these associations to inform the future development of the internal audit profession. Finally, I investigate the sources of pressure to modify audit findings and explore the effect the Core Principles have in mitigating pressure from each source. My findings are relevant to the Institute of Internal Auditors, internal audit practitioners, and academics interested in internal audit or corporate governance.
我调查了遵守内部审计师协会核心原则对内部审计师的有效性受到修改有效审计发现的压力威胁的可能性的影响。我使用了内部审计师协会2015年共同知识体系从业者调查的回应,以表明内部审计人员和cae对核心原则的遵守程度越高,受到修改审计结果压力的可能性就越低。我还探讨了十项核心原则中哪一项在解释这些关联方面占主导地位,从而为内部审计职业的未来发展提供信息。最后,我调查了修改审计结果的压力来源,并探讨了核心原则在减轻每个来源的压力方面的作用。我的发现与内部审计师协会、内部审计从业人员以及对内部审计或公司治理感兴趣的学者有关。
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引用次数: 2
Auditor Responses to and Prevention of Non-Income-Increasing Misreporting: Evidence from Audit Fees and Restatements 审计师对非增收性错报的回应和预防:来自审计费用和重述的证据
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-02-19 DOI: 10.2308/AJPT-18-115
Jeffrey A. Pittman, Yuping Zhao
We document that non-income-increasing (NII) misreporting is important to investors and then investigate whether auditors respond to and prevent different types of NII misstatements. We categorize NII misstatements into those whose correction adversely (i.e., unfavorably) affect financial reports and those whose correction positively (i.e., favorably) affect financial reports. We find that audit fees are positively associated with unfavorable NII misstatements, but not with favorable NII misstatements. We examine whether auditors prevent quarterly misstatements from resulting in annual report misstatements and find that auditors are less likely to prevent both favorable and unfavorable NII quarterly report misstatements from resulting in annual report misstatements, with the audit efficacy being lower for favorable NII misstatements. In sum, our research indicates that auditors do attempt to constrain NII misreporting with greater effort expended on unfavorable NII misstatements. Data Availability: Data used in this study are available from public sources. JEL Classifications: M49.
我们记录了非收入增加(NII)错报对投资者很重要,然后调查审计师是否应对和防止不同类型的NII错报。我们将NII错报分为更正对财务报告产生不利(即不利)影响的错报和更正对财务报告产生积极(即有利)影响的错报。我们发现审计费用与不利的NII错报呈正相关,但与有利的NII错报无关。我们研究了审计师是否会阻止季度错报导致年度报告错报,发现审计师不太可能阻止有利和不利的NII季度报告错报导致年度报告错报,有利的NII错报的审计效率较低。总而言之,我们的研究表明,审计师确实试图通过在不利的NII错报上花费更大的精力来约束NII错报。数据可用性:本研究中使用的数据可从公共来源获得。JEL分类:M49。
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引用次数: 6
The Joint Effects of Partner Rotation and PCAOB Inspections on Audit Effort 合伙人轮换与PCAOB检查对审计工作的共同影响
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-02-19 DOI: 10.2308/AJPT-18-121
Amanda Winn
This study experimentally tests the joint effects of mandatory partner rotation and PCAOB inspections on audit effort. Using a sample comprised primarily of audit partners, I find that experienced auditors plan lower effort prior to mandatory partner rotation and higher effort when PCAOB inspection risk is high relative to low. Thus, the net effect of anticipating mandatory partner rotation and high PCAOB inspection risk is no change in effort. Partners also reallocate effort away from planning and testing activities prior to rotation, consistent with a disincentive to invest in outgoing clients, while both partner rotation and high PCAOB inspection risk cause partners to spend more effort on documentation. Supplemental evidence about the spillover effects of mandatory partner rotation and PCAOB inspection risk on non-targeted clients is inconsistent with shirking behavior. Results are of interest to legislators, regulators, and auditors during the ongoing debate about the effects of current regulations. Data Availability: Contact the author.
本研究通过实验检验了强制性合伙人轮换和PCAOB检查对审计工作的共同影响。使用主要由审计合伙人组成的样本,我发现有经验的审计师在强制合伙人轮换之前计划较低的工作量,而当PCAOB检查风险相对较低时计划较高的工作量。因此,预期强制性合伙人轮换和高PCAOB检查风险的净效应在努力上没有变化。在轮换之前,合伙人也会将工作从计划和测试活动中重新分配,这与对即将离任的客户进行投资的抑制是一致的,而合伙人轮换和高PCAOB检查风险都导致合伙人在文档上花费更多的精力。关于强制性合伙人轮换和PCAOB检查风险对非目标客户的溢出效应的补充证据与逃避行为不一致。在关于现行法规影响的持续辩论中,结果是立法者,监管者和审计师感兴趣的。数据可用性:联系作者。
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引用次数: 3
Auditor Evaluation of Manager's Competence After a Failure in Internal Control 内部控制失败后审计师对管理者胜任力的评价
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-02-19 DOI: 10.2308/AJPT-18-036
Eldar M. Maksymov
Audit guidance requires auditors to assess management's competence with respect to internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) based on the recommendations of COSO's integrated framework. The omission bias theory suggests that after internal control failures, auditors may assess managers' competence in a manner inconsistent with these requirements. Results from four experiments using 313 experienced audit and accounting professionals support this concern and a means of mitigating it. I find that auditors view the manager to be most competent when prior to the failure in the key control the manager did nothing to prevent the failure versus reinforced the key control. I do not find this effect when auditors had shared their concerns about the key control with the manager prior to the control's failure. My results also show that auditors incorporate their competence judgments about management into evaluations of the ICFR, as required by the audit guidance.
审计指南要求审计员根据COSO综合框架的建议,评估管理层在财务报告内部控制方面的能力。遗漏偏差理论认为,在内部控制失效后,审计师可能会以与这些要求不一致的方式评估管理者的能力。使用313名经验丰富的审计和会计专业人员进行的四项实验的结果支持这种担忧,并提供了一种减轻这种担忧的方法。我发现,在关键控制失败之前,经理没有采取任何措施来防止失败,而不是加强关键控制,审核员认为经理是最有能力的。当审核员在关键控制失效之前与经理分享他们对关键控制的担忧时,我没有发现这种影响。我的研究结果还表明,审计师按照审计指南的要求,将他们对管理能力的判断纳入对ICFR的评价中。
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引用次数: 1
Investor Sentiment and Audit Opinion Shopping 投资者情绪与审计意见购买
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-01-22 DOI: 10.2308/AJPT-2019-523
Keval Amin, Dan Eshleman, Peng Guo
The purpose of this study is to examine whether investor sentiment influences clients' propensity to engage in audit opinion shopping. Using the opinion shopping framework of Lennox (2000), we document that internal control opinion shopping is more prevalent when investor sentiment is high. This effect is concentrated among firms with low institutional ownership. We also find that clients are more likely to undertake downward switches (i.e., Big 4 to non-Big 4 auditor) when sentiment is high. Additional tests reveal that clients who engage in opinion shopping during high sentiment periods have a higher risk of material restatements and higher audit fees. As well, the market-penalty associated with opinion shopping is reduced when sentiment is high. Overall, the results suggest that firms' opinion shopping behavior during high sentiment periods is more prevalent and opportunistic. Data Availability: Data are available from public sources cited in the text.
本研究旨在探讨投资者情绪是否会影响客户购买审计意见的倾向。利用Lennox(2000)的意见购买框架,我们发现当投资者情绪高涨时,内部控制意见购买更为普遍。这种影响主要集中在机构所有权较低的公司。我们还发现,当市场情绪高涨时,客户更有可能进行向下转换(即从四大会计师事务所转向非四大会计师事务所)。额外的测试表明,在情绪高涨时期进行意见购物的客户有更高的重大重述风险和更高的审计费用。此外,当情绪高涨时,与意见购物相关的市场惩罚也会减少。总体而言,结果表明,在情绪高涨时期,企业的意见购买行为更为普遍和机会主义。数据可用性:数据可从文本中引用的公共来源获得。
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引用次数: 3
Diversity of Signing Auditors and Audit Quality 签约审核员的多样性与审核质量
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-01-22 DOI: 10.2308/AJPT-19-068
Chang He, C. Li, G. Monroe, Yi Si
Using data for listed firms in China, where two auditors sign the audit report, we examine whether the diversity of signing auditors’ characteristics affects audit quality. We find a positive association between diversity and audit quality, consistent with the notion that diversity facilitates team performance. Further analyses show there is a stronger association between cognitive, rather than demographic, diversity of signing auditors and audit quality. Our results are robust to the inclusion of client firm and engagement auditor fixed effects. Cross-sectional results indicate stronger effects of the cognitive diversity of signing auditors on audit quality in complex, opaque, less important clients or firms without industry specialist auditors. Findings from our study suggest that audit firms should allocate staff to audit teams in a manner that results in cognitively diverse audit teams because such teams are more likely to deliver high quality audits.
本文以中国上市公司为例,采用两名审计师签署审计报告的方式,考察签署审计师特征的多样性是否会影响审计质量。我们发现多样性与审计质量之间存在正相关关系,这与多样性促进团队绩效的概念是一致的。进一步的分析表明,签约审核员的认知(而非人口)多样性与审计质量之间存在更强的关联。我们的结果对纳入客户事务所和审计业务审计师的固定影响是稳健的。横断面结果表明,在复杂、不透明、不太重要的客户或没有行业专业审计师的公司中,签约审计师的认知多样性对审计质量的影响更大。我们的研究结果表明,审计公司应该以一种导致审计团队认知多样化的方式分配员工,因为这样的团队更有可能提供高质量的审计。
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引用次数: 5
The Impact of the PCAOB Triennial Inspection Process on Inspection Year and Non-Inspection Year Audits PCAOB三年期检查程序对检查年度和非检查年度审计的影响
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-01-20 DOI: 10.2308/AJPT-18-150
Lawrence J. Abbott, William L. Buslepp
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspects auditors with fewer than 100 publicly held clients, once every three years (i.e., triennial inspection). In doing so, the PCAOB may inspect any audit engagement within the three-year window, including audits completed only months earlier (“inspection year” audits) and audits with at least a one-year, if not two-year lag (“non-inspection year” audits). We theorize the triennial inspection process affects audit quality levels, whereby auditors impose higher (lower) audit quality during inspection years (non-inspection years). We find clients of triennially inspected auditors have significantly lower levels of accruals during inspection years. Further, this change can be attributed to additional audit effort expended during inspection years. Finally, we find some evidence this is a learned behavior developed after the initial round of inspections. Our evidence suggests auditors opportunistically increase (decrease) audit quality during inspection (non-inspection) years in response to the triennial inspection process. Data Availability: All data are from publicly available sources. JEL Classifications: M42.
上市公司会计监督委员会(PCAOB)每三年对拥有少于100家上市客户的审计师进行一次检查(即三年一次检查)。在此过程中,PCAOB可以检查三年窗口内的任何审计业务,包括几个月前完成的审计(“检查年”审计)和至少滞后一年(如果不是两年)的审计(“非检查年”审计)。我们的理论是,三年一次的检查过程会影响审计质量水平,因此审核员在检查年(非检查年)实施更高(更低)的审计质量。我们发现,每三年检查一次的审计师的客户在检查年度的应计项目水平明显较低。此外,这种变化可归因于在检查年度期间花费的额外审计工作。最后,我们发现一些证据表明,这是在第一轮检查后形成的习得行为。我们的证据表明,审核员在检查(非检查)期间机会性地提高(降低)审计质量,以应对三年一次的检查过程。数据可用性:所有数据都来自公开可用的来源。JEL分类:M42。
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引用次数: 1
Internal Auditing Outsourcing, Nonaudit Services, and Audit Fees 内部审计、外包、非审计服务和审计费用
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-01-12 DOI: 10.2308/AJPT-17-044
Effiezal Aswadi Abdul Wahab, Willie. E. Gist, F. Gul, Mazlina Norzila Mat Zain
This study examines the relationship between outsourced internal audits, nonaudit services, and audit fees. We use Malaysian data to show that client firms that outsource their internal auditing function (IAF) are associated with lower external audit fees than those with in-house IAF. Moreover, this negative relationship is significantly stronger for firms that purchase greater amounts of nonaudit services (NAS) from the auditor. The results suggest that an auditor who provides NAS to a client and thus earns additional overall revenue is willing to accept lower audit fees provided a high audit quality can be achieved through reliance on outsourced IAF. JEL Classifications: M42.
本研究探讨外包内部审计、非审计服务和审计费用之间的关系。我们使用马来西亚的数据来显示,外包内部审计功能(IAF)的客户公司与内部IAF的客户公司相比,外部审计费用更低。此外,对于从审计师那里购买更多非审计服务(NAS)的公司来说,这种负相关关系明显更强。结果表明,向客户提供NAS并因此获得额外总收入的审计师愿意接受较低的审计费用,前提是可以通过依赖外包IAF来实现高审计质量。JEL分类:M42。
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引用次数: 3
Audit Partners' Co-Working Experience and Audit Outcomes 审计合伙人的共同工作经验和审计结果
IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Pub Date : 2021-01-12 DOI: 10.2308/AJPT-18-163
Ting‐Chiao Huang, Chen Chen, S. Kaplan, Yi‐Hung Lin
We examine whether increases in co-working experience between the lead and concurring audit partners affect engagement audit quality and audit efficiency. We define co-working experience as the lead and concurring audit partners having worked together in these roles on previous audit engagements for clients other than the focal client. A priori, increases in co-working experience could increase or decrease audit quality, but are expected to increase audit efficiency. Using data from Taiwan, where the identities of lead and concurring audit partners are known, we find that co-working experience is positively associated with audit quality and audit efficiency. Further, the effects of co-working experience on audit quality and audit efficiency are more pronounced when co-working experience is more intensive, the two partners are more accessible to each other, the audit firm is less experienced with the client or less knowledgeable about the client's industry, or client audit risks are higher. Data Availability: Data are available from the sources cited in the text. JEL Classifications: M4; M42.
我们研究了领导审计合伙人和并行审计合伙人之间共同工作经验的增加是否会影响审计业务的审计质量和审计效率。我们将“共同工作经验”定义为领导和合作的审计合伙人,他们曾在重点客户以外的其他客户的审计业务中以这些角色共同工作。首先,共同工作经验的增加可能会提高或降低审计质量,但预计会提高审计效率。利用台湾的数据,我们发现共同工作经验与审计质量和审计效率呈正相关。此外,当共同工作经验更密集、合伙人之间更容易接触、审计事务所对客户的经验更少或对客户所在行业的了解更少、或客户审计风险更高时,共同工作经验对审计质量和审计效率的影响更为显著。数据可用性:数据可从文中引用的来源获得。JEL分类:M4;M42。
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