The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact on pay-performance sensitivity of a commitment by regulatory bodies to monitor the auditing of managers' financial reporting. Executive incentive pay is often analysed in isolation of the regulatory environment of auditing and financial...

An auditor has the responsibility for the prevention, detection and reporting of fraud. Illegal acts and errors are the most controversial issues in auditing, and have been the most frequently debated areas amongst auditors, politicians, media, regulators and the public. Prior research has...

External auditors for NHS trusts give an independent opinion on the trust'sfinancial statements. They also review aspects of the arrangements that trusts have put inplace to ensure the proper conduct of their financial affairs, and to manage their performanceand use of resources. Special...

Purpose –This paper aims to examine the recent evolution of the regulation of statutory auditing since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the USA by comparing the regulatory structures for auditing in the USA, France and Canada. Design/methodology/approach –Using publicly...

Implementation of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Auditing Standards No. 2 on internal control and No. 3 on documentation has delayed audit completion. However, due to market demand for timely disclosures, most firms maintain the same preliminary earnings release date even though the...

In the ongoing discussions on audit regulation, the key issues of auditor independence and a high level of audit market concentration have become apparent. However, there is the concern that regulations intended to improve auditor independence (i.e., restrictions regarding the joint supply of...

Assurance services are services provided by auditors to reduce information asymmetry in agent/principal situation or in other situations when one party of transaction is able to gain less information then the other. Those services are regulated by International Standards on Auditing issued by...

Most of the bankruptcy prediction models developed so far have in common that they are based on quantitative data or more precisely financial ratios. However, useful information can be lost when disregarding soft information. In this work, we develop an automated content analysis technique to...

Angesichts der aktuellen US-amerikanischen Bilanzskandale erscheint die Bilanzierung nach US-GAAP den europäischen Regeln unterlegen. Nach Meinung von Dr. Joachim Schindler und Dr. Anne Schurbohm, KPMG, sind die Bilanzierungsstandards der US-GAAP nicht für eine weltweite Anwendung geeignet....

The article considers essence and contents of accounting policy. Its provides information with respect to main aspects of formation and application of accounting policy in Ukraine. It studies the structure of regulations on accounting policy that were developed in a company. It specifies...