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Offshoring of accounting processes has become a common business practice, pursued by firms to reduce costs and focus on … agenda on internal controls for offshored accounting processes. It further develops a linkage between internal controls of … offshored accounting processes and auditing of the organization. This paper has implications for academicians as well as …
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The U.S. Congress passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was a direct response to the accounting scandals of … restating financial statements. This paper provides an overview of corporate accounting malfeasance, the state of corporate … accounting malfeasance, reasons for its occurrence, comprehensive listings of the types of corporate accounting malfeasance …
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This paper aims to investigate whether Chinese internal control regulation improves reporting quality. After the enactment of US Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), China introduced a quasi-SOX practice (C-SOX). C-SOX stipulates that firms should disclose both management and audit reports on internal...
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misstated audited financial statements. To address this question, we analyze Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB …
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This study examines the effects of audit partner tenure and audit partner changes on internal control reporting quality for large U.S. not-for-profit (NFP) organizations. Regulators contend that audit partners lose their objectivity over successive audits, reducing audit quality. A large body of...
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effective internal control over financial reporting, and manifest the real and environmental impacts of accounting …
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consequences of mandatory IFRS adoption in Europe in terms of accounting conservatism. Indeed, a mandatory adoption setting may … control for firm-level reporting incentives when gauging the effects of a change in accounting standards. However, companies … still have some flexibility in their choice of auditor, and the later has a significant say on the accounting policy. We use …
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Conventional wisdom suggests that audit risk disclosure improves the quality of audited financial reports because the disclosure reduces information asymmetry between investors and companies. In contrast, we show that audit risk disclosure provides companies with another channel to influence...
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Auditing (accounting) researchers have published over 24,000 (75,000) academic articles (Google Scholar September 2016 …) using a variety of research methods since 1970. Yet accounting and auditing standard setters and regulators have frequently … decisions. For society to benefit from the large research investment in accounting and auditing, the knowledge gained from that …
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