代理成本、管理层持股与审计质量

所有权和经营权相分离的现代企业制度导致了股东和管理层之间严重的代理冲突。上市公司降低代理冲突的主要途径是激励与监督,其中,管理层持股和审计分别是内部激励和外部监督的重要方式。会计师事务所的规模和审计费用在一定程度上反映了审计质量。文章基于代理成本的角度,采用2005-2009年中国A股非金融类上市公司非平衡面板数据,运用Logistic二元逻辑回归模型和稳健最小二乘法研究了代理成本、管理层持股与审计质量之间的关系。研究发现:代理成本高的公司会寻求高质量的外部审计,倾向于聘请大规模的会计师事务所;管理层持股能起到完善公司内部治理机制的作用,减少代理冲突,从而降低公司对外部审计质量的需求。

Agency Costs,Management Ownership and Audit Quality

Modern enterprise system with the separation between ownership and control leads to the serious agency conflicts between shareholders and managers.To listed companies,the ways to reduce agency conflicts are motivation and supervision.Management ownership and auditing are the important ways of internal motivation and external supervision.And the size of accounting firms and audit cost give expression to audit quality to a certain extent.Based on the unbalanced panel data of A-share non-financial listed compa...