Internal Audit, Board of Directors and Financial Reporting Quality

Non - audit services and financial reporting quality :

We provide evidence on the long standing concern on auditor conflicts of interest from providing non-audit services (NAS) to audit clients by using rarely explored NAS fee data from 1978-80. Using this earlier setting, we find cross-sectional evidence of improved earnings quality when auditors provide NAS, especially those related to information services. This is consistent with better audit qu...

Ethical Guidelines for Internal Audit Reporting Lines

The present study identifies ethical ways of auditing reporting, which define the relationship between internal audit and the various authorities of the organization. Defining these lines as determinants of impartiality and independence of internal audit is of great importance. In this research, the structural equation model has been used to test the proposed model. The information required for...

Provide an optimal audit model to reduce fraudulent financial reporting

Fraud in financial reporting and accounting has grown significantly in recent years due to the financial crises created in companies, so that fraud has become a political and economic issue and today the legislature, the accounting profession and the causes The creation of fraud in it as well as the ways to deal with fraudulent behavior in financial statements have received special attention. T...

The Quality of Financial Reporting and Its Relationship to Audit Quality via an Expanded Risk Model

This paper proposes a framework for audited financial reporting that is intended to address major perceived limitations in current quality reporting principles. The paper thus addresses the potential decoupling problem between financial statement audits and what is being audited identified by Power (1997). Using an extended risk model, the framework not only identifies principles of quality fin...

Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors:

the impact of continuing business risk and political relations on the relationship between financial reporting quality and audit quality in companies listed in tehran stock exchenge .

                                                                       In relation-based economic systems, political communication is an essential source of value for companies with relations. Recent research has shown that political communication affects on the financial condition of economic enterprise and also the incentives of managers regarding financial reporting. On the other hand, with...