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Author : Ina Treptow
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Non-audit Fees of the External Auditor, Audit Committees and Earnings Quality written by Ina Treptow and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank M. Burke
Publisher : CCH
ISBN 13 : 9780808091646
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Audit Committees written by Frank M. Burke and published by CCH. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chaudhry Ghafran
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Audit Committees and Financial Reporting Quality written by Chaudhry Ghafran and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the impact of audit committee characteristics on financial reporting quality in the context of a large sample of UK companies over the period 2007-2010. The notion of financial reporting quality is assessed by looking at the audit quality and earnings quality of the firms. This study utilises the audit fee and non-audit fee ratio as its proxies for audit quality and accruals based earnings management models as its proxies for earnings quality. The findings from the multivariate analysis show that audit committee meetings and financial expertise exert a significant positive impact on audit fees. Investigating expertise further, this study finds no support for the notion that accounting expertise influences audit fees, however a significant positive influence on audit fees is recorded for the non-accounting financial expertise. However, the holding of additional directorships has a significant negative impact on audit fees. This study also finds that audit committee members' financial expertise has a negative and significant impact on non-audit fee ratio suggesting a strong support of members with financial expertise on issues relating to auditor independence. The study also documents that audit committee members serving longer on the boards do not prefer to purchase high amount of non-audit services from the incumbent auditor. This study also records a significant positive impact of the holding of additional directorships on the provision of non-audit fee ratio, thus signifying a profound support for the busyness hypothesis which argues that overstretched directors are not very good monitors of financial reporting quality. Furthermore, this study finds broadly consistent evidence that audit committees meeting three or more times per year and fully independent audit committees exert a significant positive impact on the quality of reported earnings. This study also finds some evidence (depending on the earnings model used) that the level of ownership of audit committee members also exerts a positive impact on the quality of reported earnings, highlighting the fact that audit committee members with an equity stake in their companies are considered more effective in their oversight of the financial reporting process. On the other hand, this study finds evidence that the busyness of audit committee members (busyness defined in terms of the holding of board seats in other companies) has a significant negative impact on the quality of reported earnings. The composite variables (i.e. ACE1, ACE2, ACE3 and ACE4) representing those companies that satisfy all aspects of current best practice in terms of audit committee composition and operation, has a positive impact on the quality of reported earnings. This study covers the period 2007 to 2010 and therefore offers a contemporary analysis of the influence of audit committee characteristics on financial reporting quality. The study is very comprehensive in its scope not only in the selection of audit committee characteristics and methods employed to quantify these characteristics, but also in the use of various proxies developed to capture the true essence of financial reporting quality. The choice of multiple measurement methods both for the dependent and independent variables facilitates a much richer investigation into the relationship between governance and financial reporting quality variables. Therefore this study makes a major contribution to our understanding of the association between the various audit committee characteristics and financial reporting quality in the wake of recently introduced regulatory recommendations. These findings will also have policy implications as regulators around the world continue to define and refine the desired characteristics and behaviour of audit committees. Therefore, the findings of this study will ensure future policy changes regarding audit committees are adequately informed.
Author : Richard M. Frankel
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666794659
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (946 download)
Download or read book The Relation Between Auditors' Fees for Non-Audit Services and Earnings Quality (Classic Reprint) written by Richard M. Frankel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Relation Between Auditors' Fees for Non-Audit Services and Earnings Quality This paper provides empirical evidence on the relation between non-audit services and earnings quality. We test hypotheses concerning: (1) the association between a firm's purchase of non-audit services from its auditor and earnings management, and (2) the stock price reaction to the disclosure of non-audit fees. In the past decade there has been a dramatic increase in the proportion of fee revenue auditors derive from non-audit services, yet we know little about how non-audit services are related to earnings quality.1 Concern about the effect of non-audit services on the financial reporting process was a primary motivation for the Securities and Exchange Commission (sec) to issue revised auditor independence rules on November 15, 2000. The rules require firms to disclose the amount of all audit and non-audit fees paid to its auditor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Frankel Richard M
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019501573
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Relation Between Auditors' Fees for Non-audit Services and Earnings Quality written by Frankel Richard M and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study explores the relationship between auditors' fees for non-audit services and the quality of earnings reported by companies. Using data from a large sample of publicly traded firms, the authors show that there is a strong correlation between the two variables, and suggest that this could be a cause for concern for investors and regulators. The authors also provide recommendations for improving the transparency and reliability of financial reporting. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of accounting, auditing, and corporate governance. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard M. Frankel
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Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Relation Between Auditors' Fees for Non-audit Services and Earnings Quality written by Richard M. Frankel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the association between the provision of non-audit services and earnings quality. Because of concerns regarding the effect of non-audit services on financial reporting credibility, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued revised auditor independence rules requiring firms to disclose in their annual proxy statement the amount of fees paid to auditors for audit and non-audit services. Using data collected from proxy statements filed between February 5, 2001 and June 15, 2001, we present evidence that firms purchasing more non-audit services from their auditor are more likely to just meet or beat analysts' forecasts and to report larger absolute discretionary accruals. However, the purchase of non-audit services is not associated with meeting other earnings benchmarks. We also find that the unexpected component of the non-audit to total fee ratio is negatively associated with stock returns on the filing date. These results are consistent with arguments that the provision of non-audit services strengthens an auditor's economic bond with the client and that investors price this effect. Keywords: Auditor independence; Auditor fees; Earnings management; Discretionary accruals. JEL Classification: G12, M41, M43, M49, L84.
Author : Johanna Miettinen
Publisher : University of Vaasa
ISBN 13 : 9524762447
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Effect of Audit Quality on the Relationship Between Audit Committee Effectiveness and Financial Reporting Quality written by Johanna Miettinen and published by University of Vaasa. This book was released on 2008 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiivistelmä: Tilintarkastuksen laadun vaikutus tarkastusvaliokunnan tehokkuuden ja taloudellisen tiedon laadun väliseen suhteeseen.
Author : Mark E. Peecher
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Whose Side are You on Anyway? Using Audit Fees to Identify Vigilant Vs. Compliant Directors Among Outside Directors Who Serve on Multiple Audit Committees written by Mark E. Peecher and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several reforms of the Sarbanes Oxley Act were designed to strengthen the vigilance exercised by audit committee members in their oversight of independent financial-statement audits of U.S. public companies. After SOX, a shift occurred in the audit committee labor market such that more individuals sought multiple board appointments. While most governance research assumes that outside directors with multiple board memberships have reputations for being vigilant monitors of management's financial reporting, we contend that compliant directors also exist who have reputations for being lax monitors of management. We categorize outside directors as vigilant or compliant based on whether they negotiate higher or lower audit fees with external auditors, and we focus on the sizable subset of directors who serve on multiple audit committees. As predicted, additional audit committee memberships are associated with higher levels of income-increasing earnings management, but only for compliant directors. Further, CFOs' equity incentives to overstate earnings amplifies this positive association between additional audit committee memberships and income-increasing earnings management, but again only for compliant directors. Remarkably, the presence of vigilant directors is associated with lower earnings management, despite higher CFO equity incentives to overstate earnings as well as incremental busyness that comes with serving on multiple audit committees.
Author : Lawrence Abbott
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Effect of Audit Committee Characteristics and Non-Audit Fees on Audit Fees written by Lawrence Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the association between audit committee characteristics and audit fees, using data gathered under the recent SEC fee disclosure rules. We hypothesize that audit fees will be higher in the presence of an active and independent audit committee. Our base our hypothesis upon two premises. First, we argue that independent and active audit committees demand a higher level of audit quality due to concerns about monetary or reputational losses arising from financial misstatements. This higher audit quality demand may manifest itself in a higher amount of audit coverage, which, in turn should result in a concomitantly higher audit fee. Second, independent and active audit committees may give rise to greater auditor fee bargaining power. We examine a sample of 262 non-regulated, Big 5-audited firms that filed both 10-K and proxy forms with the SEC in the period from 2/5/2001 to 3/23/2001. Audit committees comprised solely of independent directors that meet at least four times annually are significantly, positively associated with audit fees. This evidence is consistent with audit committee members taking actions within their span of control to ensure a higher level ofaudit coverage, as well as facilitating auditor independence. Finally, we also examine the impact of non-audit fees on audit fees. We document a significantly positive association between audit fees and non-audit fees, consistent with prior research from the early 1980's.
Author : William R. Baber
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Investor Perceptions of the Earnings Quality Consequences of Hiring an Affiliated Auditor written by William R. Baber and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) proscribes so-called “affiliated hires” of financial executives. More specifically, SOX requires that firms wait at least one year before hiring an individual recently employed as a member of the firm's external audit team. The intent of the regulation is to reduce the perceived loss of auditor independence due to affiliated hiring. SOX provisions also require that firms establish fully independent audit committees and disclose the identity of directors with financial expertise. Using a sample of firms that employ new financial executives during the period leading up to SOX, we find that earnings response coefficients (ERCs) computed using quarterly data decline following hires of individuals recently employed by the firm's external auditor, but ERCs do not decline following hires of comparably qualified financial executives not recently employed by the external auditor. We also find that ERC declines following affiliated hires are statistically significant for firms with audit committee compositions inconsistent with SOX regulation, but not for firms with audit committees consistent with SOX regulation subsequently imposed. Further investigation using measures of earnings quality employed in prior studies suggests that the documented differences in ERC changes are attributable to perceived, rather than real, changes in earnings quality following affiliated hires.
Author : David Hay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136210342
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Auditing written by David Hay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auditing has been a subject of some controversy, and there have been repeated attempts at reforming its practice globally. This comprehensive companion surveys the state of the discipline, including emerging and cutting-edge trends. It covers the most important and controversial issues, including auditing ethics, auditor independence, social and environmental accounting as well as the future of the field. This handbook is vital reading for legislators, regulators, professionals, commentators, students and researchers involved with auditing and accounting. The collection will also prove an ideal starting place for researchers from other fields looking to break into this vital subject.
Author : Marshall A. Geiger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000392031
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Auditor Going Concern Reporting written by Marshall A. Geiger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auditor reporting on going-concern-related uncertainties remains one of the most challenging issues faced by external auditors. Business owners, market participants and audit regulators want an early warning of impending business failure. However, companies typically do not welcome audit opinions indicating uncertainty regarding their future viability. Thus, the auditor’s decision to issue a "going concern opinion" (GCO) is a complex and multi-layered one, facing a great deal of tension. Given such a rich context, academic researchers have examined many facets related to an auditor’s decision to issue a GCO. This monograph reviews and synthesizes 182 recent GCO studies that have appeared since the last significant review published in 2013 through the end of 2019. The authors categorize studies into the three broad areas of GCO: (1) determinants, (2) accuracy and (3) consequences. As an integral part of their synthesis, they summarize the details of each study in several user-friendly tables. After discussing and synthesizing the research, they present a discussion of opportunities for future research, including issues created or exacerbated as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic. This monograph will be of assistance to researchers interested in exploring this area of auditor responsibility. It will also be of interest to auditing firms and individual practitioners wanting to learn what academic research has examined and found regarding this challenging aspect of audit practice. Auditing standard-setters and regulators will find it of interest as the authors review numerous studies examining issues related to audit policy and regulation, and their effects on GCO decisions. The examination of GCO research is extremely timely given the financial and business disruption caused by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. This unprecedented global event has caused companies, auditors and professional bodies to revisit and reassess their approach to going concern, and to think even more deeply about this fundamental business imperative.
Author : Ismail Adelopo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317177436
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Auditor Independence written by Ismail Adelopo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Auditor Independence, Ismail Adelopo argues that the importance of auditors' independence cannot be over-emphasised. Not only do auditors provide certification of the truth and fairness of the information prepared by managers, they also have a duty to express opinions on the degree of compliance with laws and regulations guiding a firm's operations. Theirs is a socially important responsibility. In all that has been proposed to mitigate the governance crisis and restore confidence in the market system, relatively little attention has been paid to auditor independence. Examining the historical role of auditing in corporate governance and the regulatory context, this book sets the function within a theoretical framework and then provides empirical analysis of the problem issues such as the relationship between audit committees and external auditors and the probity of providing non-auditing services to audit clients. The focus on matters that are damaging to market confidence and threatening to the reputation of the auditing profession, means the conclusions and recommendations in this book are important for key stakeholders, including policy makers, regulators, those running companies, and their investors and customers. This is also a book for those responsible for training in the auditing profession and for others with a research or academic interest in the matters addressed.
Author : Khairul Anuar Kamaruddin
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Role of the Audit Committee in Moderating the Negative Effect of Non-audit Services on Earnings Quality written by Khairul Anuar Kamaruddin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lisa Milici Gaynor
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Effects of Joint Provision and Disclosure of Non-Audit Services on Audit Committee Members' Decisions and Investors' Preferences written by Lisa Milici Gaynor and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent corporate governance reforms that require audit committees to pre-approve audit and non-audit services increase audit committees' accountability to third parties for actual auditor independence and audit quality. Other SEC reforms mandate the disclosure of fees for auditor-provided services and are aimed at influencing investors' perceptions of auditor independence. These fee disclosures also reveal audit committees' pre-approval decisions, enhancing public accountability. Thus, audit committees may be less willing to hire auditors for non-audit services to avoid fee disclosures even when joint provision improves audit quality. One hundred experienced corporate directors, responding as audit committee members or investors, participated in an experiment in which we manipulated the effect of the auditor's provision of non-audit services on audit quality and the fee disclosure requirement. We find that audit committee members are more likely to recommend joint provision if audit quality improves, consistent with investors' preferences. However, unlike investors, committee members are more reluctant to recommend joint provision when public disclosures are required, even at the expense of audit quality. These findings offer evidence about an indirect effect of recent reforms.
Author : Jeffrey Coulton
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Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Audit Fees, Non-Audit Services and Auditor-Client Economic Bonding written by Jeffrey Coulton and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We investigate whether auditor independence is compromised by either the mix of audit and non audit services (NAS), or simply unusually large NAS or audit fees. The results help reconcile apparently conflicting evidence in prior studies linking NAS and indicators of earnings management, as well as providing new insights on the relation between the incentive structures faced by auditors and variation in audit quality. Using the unexpected accrual component of earnings as a proxy for the effect of impaired auditor independence, we initially find that client firms purchasing an unexpectedly large NAS fee mix (i.e., relative to audit fees) display some evidence of aggressive accounting. However, when we explicitly allow for the possibly endogenous nature of unexpected accruals and unexpected NAS, this result no longer holds. In contrast, similar evidence of a positive relation between the magnitude of unexpectedly large audit fees and positive unexpected accruals still occurs (albeit more weakly) after explicitly allowing for possible endogeneity. A significant positive association between unexpected total fees (audit plus NAS) and the magnitude of positive unexpected accruals is even more robust. However, further tests shows that these quot;resultquot; are confined to clients of Non-Big 6 auditors. We therefore conclude that for large audit firms, the incentive to protect larger than expected fees is outweighed by the importance of their reputation for providing high quality audits relative to smaller audit firms. The results also highlight how sensitive conclusions about possible quot;NAS effectsquot; are to the choice of proxy for economic bond as well as the precise experimental design.
Author : Lawrence Abbott
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book An Investigation of the Impact of Audit Committee Characteristics on the Relative Magnitude of Non-Audit Service Purchases written by Lawrence Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the association between audit committee characteristics and the relative magnitude of non-audit service (NAS) and audit service fees, using data gathered under the recent SEC fee disclosure rules. Issues related to non-audit service fees have been of concern to practitioners, regulators and academics for a number of years. Evidence suggests that audit committees which possess certain characteristics are important participants in the process of managing the client/auditor relationship. We hypothesize that audit committee members who are independent and active financial monitors have incentives to limit NAS fees (relative to audit fees) paid to incumbent auditors, in an effort to enhance auditor independence in either appearance or fact. We examine a sample of 310 firms which filed both 10-K and proxy forms with the SEC in the period from 2/5/2001 to 3/23/2001. Audit committees comprised solely of independent directors that meet at least four times annually are significantly, negatively associated with the ratio of NAS and audit fees. This evidence is consistent with audit committee members perceiving a high level of NAS fees in a negative light and taking actions to decrease this occurrence.
