The Impact of the Audit Quality of Internal Control on the Executive Compensation—Research on the A-Share Real Estate Listed Companies

This paper comes to examine the impact of corporate governance in Palestine on the efficiency of internal audit from the reality of the listed corporations in the Palestine Exchange; [PEX]. The population of this paper consists of all the 25 listed Palestinian companies in the Palestine Exchange that have internal auditor. It also includes another 5 companies that rely on the internal audit by external companies. Hence, the number of the reviewed companies by this study is 30 companies (Palestine Exchange Market). Thereupon, 30 questionaires were distributed and retrived. However, this manuscript states a summary of the most important results. These results are explained as is shown in the following: (1) the findings of the study state that there is an effect of applying the variables of corporate governance altogether on the quality of the internal audit of the listed public companies in the Palestine Exchange. These rules are (disclosure and transparency, accountability, responsibility, justice, and independency). (2) The results of the study indicate that there is a significant effect of applying the corporate governance variables individually on the quality of the internal audit of the listed public companies in the Palestine Exchange. Thus, the effect of these variables appears contrasted respectively as the following: disclosure and transparency, justice and accountability, independency and responsibility. (3) The corporate governance represents combining the right practices and procedures which operate within the standards and rules that governed by the obligatory standards. These standards aim at ensuring that there aren’t any contradictions between the strategic goals of the company and the fuctional procedures of the administration in achieving these goals. (4) The internal audit adds value to the company through the functions that enhance its performance within corporate governance. This includes providing information to all levels of the management, evaluating the system of the internal control and the risk management, in addition to sticking the company with the principles of corporate governance. The findings of the study come up with the following recommendations: (1) the study assures the importance of applying the corporate governance principles because of their clear effect on the internal audit quality. It also recommends working efficiently on the professional development of the auditors and improving their performance through training programs, as well, encouraging them to keep up with the latest developments in the field of the auditing and other related fields. (2) It strongly recommends working on enhancing and activating the role of the board of directors and the audit committee; as well as granting them the independency. Hence, they will be able to carry out the tasks assigned to them. Consequently, they will avoid the effects that the company may be exposed to as a result of the internal weakness of the practical aspects of the principles of corporate governance; in addition to the negative impacts of this issue on the quality of the internal audit.

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Financial Excesses and Executive Compensation Stickiness

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202021403030 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 214 ◽

pp. 03030

Author(s):

Gan Shengdao ◽

Liang Yang ◽

Huang Jintao

Keyword(s):

Property Rights ◽

Executive Compensation ◽

Listed Companies ◽

Local State ◽

Central State ◽

The Impact ◽

Positive Effect ◽

A Share

This research selects China A-share listed companies from 2007-2018 as the research sample, and empirically tests the impact of financial excesses and property rights on the executive compensation stickiness. This study finds that financial excesses have a significant regulating effect on executive compensation stickiness, and the degree of stickiness regulation for enterprises with different property rights is quite different. Financial excesses inhibit executive compensation stickiness in local-state-owned enterprises and non-state-owned enterprises, but have a positive effect when it happens in central-state-owned enterprises

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Individual auditor characteristics and audit quality: evidence from nonprofits in the US

Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial Management ◽

10.1108/jpbafm-10-2019-0157 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 551-575

Author(s):

Nancy Chun Feng

Keyword(s):

Nonprofit Organizations ◽

Internal Control ◽

Audit Quality ◽

Quality Measures ◽

Content Type ◽

Audit Firm ◽

Audit Firms ◽

The Impact ◽

Auditor Characteristics

PurposeUsing a sample of US nonprofit organizations, where the identity of the auditor in charge of the audit is revealed, I investigate whether individual auditor characteristics (gender, engagement size and tenure) are associated with audit quality.Design/methodology/approachTo investigate how individual audit partner characteristics affect audit quality, I follow Petrovits et al. (2011) and Fitzgerald et al. (2018) who investigate client characteristics and partner tenure as determinants of ICDs in nonprofits. I add three characteristics of the auditor in charge – gender, engagement size and tenure – to their models. In additional analyses, I use subsamples partitioned by client risk and audit firm size, and find that individual auditor characteristics generally play a more significant role in the issuance of ICDs and QAOs for riskier clients than for less risky clients.FindingsMy results show that female auditors are more likely to report internal control deficiencies and issue qualified audit opinions (QAOs) to nonprofits. I also find that auditors with more Single Audit engagements within the same year are less likely to report ICDs. In addition, auditor tenure is negatively associated with the likelihood of issuing an ICD report, suggesting that auditors become complacent as the length of the auditor–client relationship lengthens or, alternatively, that they are better able to assist their clients in correcting ICDs and in maintaining stronger internal control environments as they gain client-specific knowledge over time. Additional analysis suggests tenure and engagement load results are sensitive to the sample specification employed.Research limitations/implicationsOne caveat of this study is that self-selection bias may be present when a client chooses an audit firm, the audit firm selects a client, and the audit firm assigns a partner to the engagement. Future study with more advanced econometric models is needed to mitigate self-selection bias. Another limitation is that my sample consists of nonprofit organizations and may not be generalizable to for-profit firms. Another caveat of this study is that the tenure variable is truncated compared to prior literature (e.g. Fitzgerald et al., 2018). Also given the rarity of audit quality measures in the nonprofit setting, internal control deficiencies and qualified opinions are used as proxies for audit quality because they reflect both the quality of audit work and the quality of organizations' internal control and financial reporting. Future studies with data including additional audit quality measures could shed more light on the topic.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature in several ways. First, this study offers a more comprehensive examination on the impact that a broader set of individual auditor characteristics on audit quality in the nonprofit setting, compared to Fitzgerald et al.'s (2018) study. Second, the findings should be of interest to policymakers who recently mandated engagement partner disclosures from US audit firms (PCAOB, 2015b). Finally, another distinctive feature of this study is that I examine the impact of individual auditor characteristics on audit quality in a setting where Big 4 audit firms are not dominant.

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Influence of the Quality of Accrual Financial Report Information with the Roles of Accounting Information System as an Intervening Factor

Jurnal Dinamika Akuntansi ◽

10.15294/jda.v8i2.9307 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 84

Author(s):

Dyah Purwanti ◽

Ghulbudin Isham Natser

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Human Resources ◽

Financial Reporting ◽

Internal Control ◽

Accounting Information ◽

Primary Data ◽

Accounting Information System ◽

The Government ◽

The Impact

<p>This study aims to find empirical evidence about the role of accounting information system (AIS) as intervening factors that affect the quality of financial reporting information of the government. This study uses a questionnaire that primary data collected from respondents, namely employees of the accounting department of the government units, especially a partner institution in the State Treasury Office (KPPN) 2 Jakarta. Data processing is performed by the method of partial least squares (PLS). The results of this study are the accounting information system has significantly the impact on the quality of government financial reporting information. While the capacity factor of human resources, control data input and application of Government Accounting Standards (SAP) have a significant direct effect on the AIS, is larger when compared to a direct influence on the quality of financial reporting information. Other factors, organizational commitment and internal control system has a significant influence either directly or indirectly on the quality of financial reporting information. The findings of the study are expected to provide input to the government the importance of improving the accounting information system, such as strengthening the capacity of human resources and accounting applications in realizing quality financial information.</p>

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A study of the impact of information disclosure quality on the efficiency of corporate investment—Based on civil engineering listed companies

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202019803032 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 198 ◽

pp. 03032

Author(s):

Liying Zhang

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Civil Engineering ◽

Listed Companies ◽

Investment Efficiency ◽

Disclosure Quality ◽

High Quality ◽

Life Cycle Stages ◽

Quality Disclosure ◽

The Impact

Most of the existing studies on the impact of disclosure quality of listed companies on the investment efficiency of enterprises are based on the static level, and the article investigates the evolution of disclosure quality on the investment efficiency of enterprises from the dynamic level by dividing the life cycle of enterprises. Taking the data of Shenzhen civil engineering companies from 2013-2017 as the research sample, it uses multiple regression analysis to empirically test the impact of disclosure quality of listed companies on the investment efficiency of enterprises at different life cycle stages. The results show that when no distinction is made between life cycle stages, high quality disclosure can significantly inhibit the inefficient investment behavior of firms; in the growth and maturity samples, high quality disclosure can significantly inhibit underinvestment and overinvestment; in the recessionary samples, high quality disclosure can significantly inhibit underinvestment and has no significant effect on overinvestment.

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Impact of Applying Governance Standards in Evaluating the Quality of Internal Audit in Yemeni Private Universities

The Arab Journal For Quality Assurance In Higher Education ◽

10.20428/ajqahe.13.46.4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (46) ◽

pp. 81-103

Author(s):

Ahmed Ali Qassem Mohssen

Keyword(s):

Audit Quality ◽

Private Universities ◽

Relative Weight ◽

Internal Audit ◽

Slight Variation ◽

Internal Auditing ◽

Audit Process ◽

Transparency And Disclosure ◽

The Impact

The study aimed to measure the impact of applying governance standards in evaluating the quality of internal audit in Yemeni private universities. To achieve this, the researcher followed the descriptive and analytical approach and employed a questionnaire to collect data from a sample that included (68) participants. After conducting relative analysis, governance was at an average level of (64.9%). There was also a slight variation in the level of implementation, as the dimension of transparency and disclosure was the most frequent dimension, followed by accountability and independence. Further, there was a medium level of adherence to internal auditing standards at a relative weight (65%). The level of commitment to the audit dimensions was as follows: managing the internal audit activities (67%), communicating the results (66%), assessing the risk and control management (64%), and planning and implementing the audit process (62%). and The study also found that the combined governance standards (transparency and disclosure, accountability, independence) increase the quality of the internal audit in Yemeni private universities and the highest dimensions of governance standards affecting the quality of internal auditing are the dimension of independence (80.3%), accountability (71.7%), and disclosure and transparency (63.7%). In light of this, the study recommended adopting governance standards as an integrated approach to achieve quality performance in private Yemeni universities; spreading the culture of governance in private universities among their leaders and staff by holding training courses, seminars, and conferences in order to be accepted and absorbed. In addition, governance should be included in some related academic courses in the disciplines of administrative and accounting sciences. Keywords: governance standards, internal audit quality assessment, private Yemeni universities.

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The Impact of Management Alumni Affiliation and Persuasion Tactics on Auditors' Internal Control Judgments

The Accounting Review ◽

10.2308/accr-51816 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 93 (2) ◽

pp. 97-115 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Sudip Bhattacharjee ◽

J. Owen Brown

Keyword(s):

Internal Control ◽

Social Identity Theory ◽

Audit Quality ◽

Revolving Door ◽

Auditor Judgment ◽

Professional Skepticism ◽

Sarbanes Oxley ◽

External Auditor ◽

One Year ◽

The Impact

ABSTRACT Concerns over “revolving door” practices of companies hiring directly from their external auditor led to a Sarbanes-Oxley Act provision mandating a one-year cooling-off period before such hires can occur. Yet little is known as to whether these alumni affiliations, still prevalent today, actually impair audit quality. Drawing on Social Identity Theory, we conduct an experiment to examine whether auditors experience heightened identification with an alumni-affiliated client manager and, if so, how this perceived relationship affects their professional skepticism in response to a management persuasion attempt. As predicted, absent the use of a management persuasion tactic, auditors identify more with an alumni-affiliated manager than a non-alumnus with equal professional experience, and this perceived social bond enhances the manager's influence. However, the use of a common persuasion tactic, while effective at influencing auditor judgment when used by an unaffiliated manager, “backfires” when used by an alumni-affiliated manager, leading to diminished persuasion and increased professional skepticism. Evidence suggests that auditors are better able to identify the inappropriateness of the persuasion attempt when the tactic is used by an alumni-affiliated manager.

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The impact of tax on listed companies in China A-share market

2011 International Conference on Business Management and Electronic Information ◽

10.1109/icbmei.2011.5920507 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Xiao Xianyu

Keyword(s):

Listed Companies ◽

The Impact ◽

A Share

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Integration of Internal Control and Financial Statement Audits: Are Two Audits Better than One?

The Accounting Review ◽

10.2308/accr-52197 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 94 (2) ◽

pp. 53-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Lori Shefchik Bhaskar ◽

Joseph H. Schroeder ◽

Marcy L. Shepardson

Keyword(s):

Financial Reporting ◽

Internal Control ◽

Audit Quality ◽

Internal Controls ◽

Data Availability ◽

Financial Statement ◽

Auditor Judgment ◽

Public Company ◽

Better Than

ABSTRACT The quality of financial statement (FS) audits integrated with audits of internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) depends upon the quality of ICFR information used in, and its integration into, FS audits. Recent research and PCAOB inspections find auditors underreport existing ICFR weaknesses and perform insufficient testing to address identified risks, suggesting integrated audits—in which substantial ICFR testing is required—may result in lower FS audit quality than FS-only audits. We compare a 2007–2013 sample of small U.S. public company firm-years receiving integrated audits (accelerated filers) to firm-years receiving FS-only audits (non-accelerated filers) and find integrated audits are associated with higher likelihood of material misstatements and discretionary accruals, consistent with lower FS audit quality. We also find evidence of (1) auditor judgment-based integration issues, and (2) low-quality ICFR audits harming FS audit quality. Overall, results suggest an important potential consequence of integrated audits is lower FS audit quality. Data Availability: Data are publicly available from the sources identified in the text.

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