The influence of auditor characteristics on audit quality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Pais ◽  
Flavia Machado
Keyword(s):  
Audit Quality ◽  
Auditor Characteristics

Earnings Management, Audit Committee effectiveness and The Role of Auditor Characteristics

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-9
Author(s):  
Rizky Eriandani ◽  
Melly Karina Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Agency Theory ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
External Auditors ◽  
Auditor Characteristics

This research aims to provide empirical evidence regarding the effect of auditor characteristics on the relationship between audit committee effectiveness and earnings management. Mechanisms of good corporate governance can limit and control the opportunistic actions of management. The higher level of effectiveness of the audit committee will reduce the tendency of companies to practice earnings management. In addition to the Audit Committee as an internal party that oversees the credibility of financial statements, it is also necessary to supervise external parties, namely external auditors. So that with an effective audit committee and the function of the external auditor it is expected to reduce earnings management. Agency theory is used as a theoretical framework to provide a robust theoretical framework for investigating manager behavior in various companies. In this perspective, agency theory provides a clear understanding of the effectiveness of audit committees and the characteristics of auditors, and recognizes this as the most crucial oversight mechanism that reduces agency costs, manages conflicts of interest, and mitigates earnings management. The contribution of this research to the existing literature both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically, it will add governance theory about the interaction between the audit committee and external auditors in ensuring the quality of financial reporting. Empirically, the results of research on corporate governance and reporting quality reveal that the majority of them have been conducted in countries with advanced capital markets. In contrast, studies conducted in countries with developing capital markets are still scarce. Keywords: Audit Committee, Earnings Management, Auditor, Audit Quality

Market Reaction to Auditor Ratification Vote Tally

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul N. Tanyi ◽  
Kristin C. Roland
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Market Reaction ◽  
Client Relationship ◽  
High Level ◽  
Auditor Characteristics ◽  
Jel Classifications

SYNOPSIS This paper provides empirical evidence that the proportion of shareholder votes against the ratification of the auditor is informative to investors' perception of the auditor-client relationship. We find that lower shareholder approval of the auditor is associated with a negative market reaction to the 8-K announcement of the auditor ratification vote. Additionally, we find that the market reaction is more negative when a high level of auditor dissatisfaction is likely a surprise to investors, such as when audit and auditor characteristics suggest that the auditor provides high audit quality. We provide confirming evidence that withheld votes are associated with a higher likelihood of a future auditor dismissal and that the market reaction to the dismissal is more positive for firms with lower shareholder approval of the auditor. JEL Classifications: G34; G30; M40.

scholarly journals Auditor gender, experience and reporting in nonprofit organizations

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 550-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Mie Reheul ◽  
Tom Van Caneghem ◽  
Machteld Van den Bogaerd ◽  
Sandra Verbruggen
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Audit Market ◽  
Audit Firms ◽  
Audit Opinions ◽  
Auditor Characteristics

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between individual auditor characteristics (gender, experience and sector expertise) and audit opinions in Belgian non-profit organizations (NPOs). The purpose is to identify auditor characteristics that imply a better assurance of financial statement (FS) quality. FS quality is essential to enhance financial accountability toward the resource providers of NPOs and the public at large. Design/methodology/approach Multinomial regressions are conducted on a data set of Belgian NPOs. Propensity score matching is used to control for potential self-selection bias. Findings Auditors with sector expertise are found to provide better assurance than their non-sector-expert counterparts. The former are more likely to disclose FS errors and uncertainties in their audit report. Originality/value This study contributes to the auditing literature by focusing on an understudied audit market, namely, the non-profit audit market. The number of non-profit studies that investigate determinant of audit quality is very scarce, and none of them explores the determinants of audit opinions. Moreover, these studies ignore individual auditor characteristics as determinants of audit quality. The findings of this study provide meaningful information for several actors in the NP field and for audit firms.

Pengaruh Karakteristik Auditor terhadap Kualitas Audit

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-68
Author(s):  
Lintang Kurniawati ◽  
Nur Kholis ◽  
Hestin Mutmainah
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
The Public ◽  
Auditor Characteristics ◽  
Public Accountant

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of auditor characteristics (competence, independence and accountability) on audit quality. Respondents from this study were auditors of the public accountant office in Surakarta consisting of 45 respondents, the research method used in this study was purposive sampling and tested using multiple linear regression. The results of this study indicate that competence and accountability influence audit quality, this shows that the more competent an auditor and auditor who has good accountability will affect the quality of the audited, while Independence does not affect audit quality.

Big 4 Office Size and Audit Quality

2009 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. 1521-1552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jere R. Francis ◽  
Michael D. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Management Behavior ◽  
Going Concern ◽  
Big 4 ◽  
Client Risk ◽  
Office Size ◽  
Audit Reports ◽  
Auditor Characteristics

ABSTRACT: Larger offices of Big 4 auditors are predicted to have higher quality audits for SEC registrants due to greater in-house experience in administering such audits. We test this prediction by examining a sample of 6,568 U.S. firm-year observations for the period 2003–2005 and audited by 285 unique Big 4 offices. Results are consistent with larger offices providing higher quality audits. Specifically, larger offices are more likely to issue going-concern audit reports, and clients in larger offices evidence less aggressive earnings management behavior. These findings are robust to extensive controls for client risk factors and to controls for other auditor characteristics. While the evidence suggests audit quality is higher on average in larger Big 4 offices, we make no claims that audit quality is unacceptably low in smaller offices.

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

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.

The relationship between political connections, auditor characteristics and auditor narcissism

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jalil Khaksar ◽  
Mahdi Salehi ◽  
Mahmoud Lari DashtBayaz
Keyword(s):  
Audit Quality ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Industry Specialization ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Auditor Characteristics

Purpose This study aims to assess the relationship between political connections, auditor characteristics (audit quality and industry specialization) and auditors’ intrinsic characteristics (narcissism) in listed firms on the Tehran Stock Exchange. In other words, this paper attempts to answer the question “whether political connections, audit quality and industry specialization contribute to the growth of narcissism and overconfidence of auditors of listed firms on the Tehran Stock Exchange or not.” Design/methodology/approach A multivariate regression model is used for hypothesis testing. The study’s hypotheses were also examined using a sample of 768-year firm listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during 2013–2018 and by using the multiple regression pattern. Findings The obtained results indicate a negative and significant association between political relations, narcissism and overconfidence. The auditor’s overconfidence will go down by increasing political relations. Moreover, the results show a positive and significant relationship between audit quality, industry specialization and narcissism. On the other hand, to the best of authors’ knowledge, this study measured, for the first time, the severity of political connections by using the exploratory factor analysis of eight variables (long-term liabilities, firm size, financial leverage, export, human resources, major governmental shareholders, board members affiliated to the government and institutional ownership). Originality/value The authors figured out that few studies carried out, so far, in the emergent markets on political connections and their impacts on narcissism and overconfidence of auditors, so this paper aims to assess the effect of such a phenomenon in the emergent markets and contributes to the development of knowledge and science in this field.

Antecedents and Consequences of Independence Risk: Framework for Analysis

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla M. Johnstone ◽  
Terry D. Warfield ◽  
Michael H. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Combined Effects ◽  
Governance Mechanisms ◽  
Regulatory Oversight ◽  
Corporate Governance Mechanisms ◽  
Risk Framework ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Auditor Characteristics

This paper presents a framework that explains how certain incentives affecting independence risk interact with situational factors to affect actual or perceived audit quality. We articulate the combined effects of direct incentives, indirect incentives, and judgment-based decisions involving difficult accounting issues, materiality, and audit conduct. We then identify a variety of factors that may mitigate independence risk, including corporate governance mechanisms, regulatory oversight, auditing firm policies, auditing firm culture, and individual auditor characteristics. Finally, we discuss the effects of independence risk on various stakeholders, and propose actions that should be taken by the auditing profession, auditing firms, regulators, and researchers.

FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI KUALITAS AUDIT

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Heru Heryanto ◽  
Nur Laela ◽  
Riana R Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
T Test ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Analysis Technique

This study aims to determine the significance of the influence of competence, independence, professionalism, auditor experience, accountability, and auditor's knowledge of audit quality. This study uses a questionnaire with a population and sample, namely all auditors who work at the Public Accounting Office (KAP) in the Special Region of Yogyakarta and Surakarta. Sampling techniques using Convenience Sampling with a sample of 61 respondents. The data used in this study is a questionnaire using a Likert scale 1 to 5. The data analysis technique used in this study is multiple linear regression using the SPSSprogram for Windows. The analysis tool in this study using validity and reliability, the classical assumption (normality test, multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity test and autocorrelation test) while the data were analyzed using multiple linear regression test, t test, F test and the coefficient of determination (R2).Based on the results of the t-test analysis performed, it shows that there is a positive influence of competence, independence, professionalism, auditor experience, accountability, and auditor's knowledge of audit quality and simultaneously competency, independence, professionalism, auditor experience, accountability, and auditor knowledge variables affect quality audit

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