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The main objective of this study was to analyze the pattern of accounting events that signals error in audited financial statements and resulted in restatement in Brazil during the periods of 2000-2009. The study which is characterized as interpretative, borrows a leaf from the contexts studied...
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Audit researchers have a longstanding interest in understanding whether issuing a going concern report to financially stressed clients protects auditors from litigation. An endogeneity issue arises, in that litigation risk affects the going concern decision and the going concern decision impacts...
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This paper summarizes the Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 106 – Audit Evidence. It extends the importance on why the financial statements should be fairly stated and in conformity, in all material respects, with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Also, extends why audit...
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Initial public offering (IPO) companies are exempt from Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, leaving investors to assess the quality of an IPO company's internal controls, which affect the quality of management-provided financial information, without an opinion on internal controls...
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Objective –The emergence of the ASEAN Single Window has triggered the need for higher audit quality in ASEAN countries, including Indonesia. A recent study conducted in Indonesia reveals that the reputation of auditing firms, as rated by clients and users, and auditor's competence, as rated by...
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audit committee characteristics, specifically size, meetings, independence and expertise has an influence on audit report … independence, audit committee size, firm size and profitability all have an influence on audit report lag. Meanwhile, audit … committee independence, audit committee expertise, and leverage have no influence on audit report lag …
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This study examines the effect of audit committee connectedness through director networks on financial reporting quality, specifically the misstatement of annual financial statements. Using network analysis, we examine multiple dimensions of connectedness and find that, after controlling for...
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Limited data availability on the internal audit function (IAF) has constrained research on the topic. This study uses unique, manually collected data from LinkedIn on internal audit personnel that overcomes certain limitations of previous survey-based data. Using this longitudinal data, we test...
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Audit firms need to provide high quality audits but they also need to please their clients. We argue that these conflicting incentives become manifest when comparing the incentive effects of equity ownership on engagement quality (EQ) reviewers and audit engagement partners. We predict that EQ...
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The study examined the effect of creative accounting on audit risk and audit failure amongst practicing auditors in the South-eastern geopolitical zone of Nigeria. The study employed survey research design using Chi-square to analyze data from questionnaires issued to 115 respondents among 4...
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