Although internal auditing (IA) services have been traditionally performed in-house, organizations are increasingly outsourcing such services. Using a Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) perspective, this study examined the influence of several organizational-level variables on the decision to...

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of audit firm rotation on the audit quality (audit opinion and audit firm reputation), on a sample of all Tunisian listed firms. To move towards this objective, we used a logistic regression model on panel data over a period of 16 years (1995-2010)....

The aim of this paper is to determine the effects of stock prices following the announcement of audited financial reports of Slovenian and Croatian public interest entities. Our research is to study the importance of variables and their significance regarding the audit in explaining the...

This paper aims to apply the anatomy of bank financial condition in modelling bank going concern status. The anatomic factors are market presence, macro-economic condition, deposit fragility, prudence, earnings quality, market power and capital confidence (Njoku and Inanga, 2010). Discriminant...

This study examines whether auditor independence will be affected by the magnitude of audit and non-audit services fees provided to audit clients and political connections. We predict that auditor independence will be undermined when audit firms provide non-audit services to the audit clients as...

This study investigates audit effectiveness (or the lack thereof) of audit opinions issued by auditors preceding company bankruptcies. Data from all 26 bankrupt UK financial institutions were used to determine if auditors appropriately issued opinions other than unqualified, as signs of...

This paper addresses two problematic issues arising from the importation of terms into financial accounting: (1) the nature of economic reality; and (2) the role of assumptions. These two issues have stirred a lot of controversy relating to financial accounting measurements and affect...

This paper aims to deface bank going concern public secrecy. Emanating from the refusal of bank supervisory auditors to share knowledge about bank financial condition publicly and the dependence of bank statutory auditors on ineffective bank going concern opinion model, bank going concern public...

In order to demonstrate that there is a direct link between compliance with accounting principles and auditor’s opinion, which, of course, is „filtered” through professional judgement, the study starts from information provided by a representative medium-sized audit company located in the...

Professional judgement represents the key to a succesful audit engagement. In order for the auditors to use their professional judgment correctly, they must know the rules and standards, both those related to accounting and audit.ISA 200 emphasizes the importance of exercising professional...