This e-book of the Managerial Auditing Journal looks closely at the place risk management takes in the broad theme of corporate governance and management performance. Examining closely the role risk management from a number of different global perspectives and highlighting the opportunity for...

Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Guest editorial -- The associations between audit firm attributes and audit quality-specific indicators -- The determinants of audit report lag: a meta-analysis -- The potential for greater use of meta-analysis in archival auditing research -- The application...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse company-specific factors associated with adoption of risk-based auditing. It seeks to explore the role of internal auditing in enterprise risk management (ERM). Design/methodology/approach – Findings are drawn from a questionnaire survey,...

Purpose – Concern has been raised over the dubious utility of internal control (IC) reports that contain vague disclosures of unclear meaning or that contain sweeping, albeit, and confusing statements. The purpose of this paper is to examine, from a Malaysian perspective, the internal audit...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the weaker focus on risk management and internal control within the Belgian corporate governance guidelines is associated with less developed risk management and internal control systems within Belgian companies, when compared to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the link between management accounting and risk management. The paper measures the extent to which management accounting practices help in managing risks and the extent of the integration between these two important managerial functions....

Purpose – This paper leverages the concept of business information intensity (BII) with the aim of developing a model to assess control deficiency risk (CDR) in organizations. BII measures the extent of use of IT by an organization in its products and value chain. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how a risk management committee (RMC), as a newly evolving sub-committee of the board of directors, functions as a key governance support mechanism in the oversight an organisation's risk management strategies, policies and processes. However,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the availability of risk disclosures in the annual reports of Malaysian companies by focusing on the non-financial section of the reports. In addition, the paper aims to empirically test the sampled companies' characteristics and to compare the...

Purpose –This purpose of this paper is to investigate how to implement a combined assurance program. Design/methodology/approach –This paper uses qualitative data obtained through semi-structured interviews with six multinationals at different stages of combined assurance implementation...