国内外会计师事务所非审计业务比较研究

从发展历程看,国外会计师事务所无一不经历了从传统审计业务到全方位专业服务的转变.相比之下我国会计师事务所非审计业务起步较晚,发展也比较滞后.本文首先从国外非审计业务发展的现状和特点入手,与我国的发展现状进行对比,进而提出了我国非审计业务存在的问题及相应对策.     

我国会计师事务所非审计业务基本问题及对策研究

经济全球化环境下,传统审计业务市场已处于基本饱和状态,会计师事务所开展非审计业务已成为不可阻挡的趋势。然而国内的大多数事务所却并没有意识到非审计业务的重要性,鉴于此,本文先使用STP理论进行市场细分及定位,明确非审计业务发展方向,再针对非审计业务发展过程中遇到的问题,并提出相应的建议,推动国内非审计业务市场向国际靠拢。     

构建会计师事务所拓展非审计业务领域运作模式探讨

注册会计师行业大力拓展非审计业务领域的成效,有赖于会计师事务所积极构建由拓展非审计业务来源切入点、打造非审计业务专长团队、开发与完善非审计业务执业规程、调动执业人员拓展非审计业务积极性以及确立打造非审计业务经营战略等五大要素有机结合的非审计业务拓展运作模式.     

会计师事务所年度审计业务预算工时和分类成本实证研究——基于广东省中小会计师事务所的调查数据分析

一、引言一直以来,如何合理确定注册会计师行业审计服务收费,寻求行业合理收费水平和行业执业质量之间的平衡点,为国内外理论界和实务界普遍关注焦点。目前国内外大部分学者认为,过低的审计收费会损害审计质量。Copley(1994)等的实证研究显示,审计费用与审计产品的质量正相关,即会计公司和注册会计师提供的审计     

会计师事务所审计质量的影响因素分析

在新经济发展形势下,审计质量逐渐成为衡量一家会计师事务所整体竞争力的核心指标。会计师事务所应在日常经营管理活动中找寻影响审计质量的主要因素,多措并举提供高质量的审计服务,提高审计工作质量,更好地保护市场主体的合法权益。如何有效提高会计师事务所的审计质量,降低审计风险,成为当前会计审计行业的热门话题。     

我国会计师事务所市场拓展的思路

结合我国会计师事务所发展历程和现状,分析了我国会计师事务所拓展市场的必要性,并提出了关于我国会计师事务所市场拓展的思路。     

我国会计师事务所审计收费研究——以瑞华会计师事务所为例

我国经济的发展带动了社会各行业的发展,审计服务行业是我国发展壮大的行业之一。会计师事务所的增多、审计从业人员数量的急剧增加、行业竞争的加剧等暴露出各种审计问题。本文以瑞华会计师事务所为例,探究我国会计师事务所在审计收费方面存在的问题,并提出相关建议。     

注册会计师发展非审计业务探讨

本文在对比考察国内外注册会计师发展非审计业务的实践和遇到的问题后得出以下结论:会计师事务所超出审计范围从事会计服务和管理咨询服务等非审计业务,属于注册会计师职能的拓展;注册会计师有能力和优势从事非审计业务服务;非审计业务是一把双刃剑,它需要在政府的监管下规范发展。这些研究有利于进一步规范非审计业务的发展,促进注册会计师深度服务于中国经济发展。     

非审计服务对我国注册会计师审计独立性的影响研究

审计独立性是审计执业的基石,现代审计的灵魂,是审计人员的基本理念.随着注册会计师行业服务市场的发展变化,非审计服务所得收入在会计师事务所利润中的比重越来越大.而美国安然与安达信等事件的发生,引起了学术界对非审计业务的争论,争论的焦点集中在非审计服务是否损害审计独立性的问题上.本文通过对非审计服务与审计独立性关系的分析基础上,提出维护我国注册会计师审计独立性的对策     

Auditor–Provided Consultancy Services and their Associations with Audit Fees and Audit Opinions

This study examines the relationships between non–audit services fees (consultancy fees) paid to auditors and (1) audit fees, and (2) the occurrence of qualified audit opinions. The positive association between consultancy fees and audit fees is shown to be due to certain company specific events that generate a demand for consultancy services as well as requiring additional audit effort. Identified company specific events are mergers and acquisitions, new share issues, new accounting and information systems, new CEOs, and corporate restructurings. When these events are absent, there is no statistically significant relationship between audit fees and consultancy fees after controlling for company size. Companies that have relatively high consultancy fees are more likely to receive a clean audit opinion. This may be due to the non–audit work clearing up problem areas at the client company or it may be due to high consultancy fees impairing auditor independence. With the available data it is not possible to distinguish between these two reasons.     

Auditor Fees, Market Microstructure, and Firm Transparency

Abstract:  Auditors, as corporate insiders, have access to private information regarding the firm's financial and business opacity that is unavailable to outside investors. We test whether auditors price their knowledge of firm opacity in their audit fees by examining two competing hypotheses. The first states that higher audit fees may reflect the greater risk that the auditor faces in auditing an opaque firm. Under this hypothesis, market based measures of opacity will be positively correlated with higher fees. The second hypothesis states that firms buy reputational capital from their auditor by paying high fees in an attempt to improve the market's perception of the firm's transparency. In this case, higher audit fees are negatively correlated with market based measures of opacity. Our results are consistent with the first hypothesis, that auditors price opacity risk into their fees.     

国际金融危机、审计费用溢价与审计质量

以2003-2017年我国A股上市公司为样本,考量当企业受到金融危机冲击时,审计费用与审计质量之间关系的变化。研究结果表明,金融危机期间存在审计费用溢价现象,然而更多的收费却伴随着审计质量的下降。研究结论对于在市场危机环境下进行审计风险管控和审计市场的规范具有一定的借鉴意义。     

The Provision of Non-audit Services and the Pricing of Audit Fees

There have been a number of studies examining audit fees and this research has covered various nations. Recent legislation in Norway requires a company to disclose information on the audit fee and the fees for non-audit services paid to its auditor. Using this data, models of audit fee structure are developed. As with other studies, the size of the company is a major determinant of the audit fee. Payments for non-audit services are positively and significantly associated with audit fees; this relationship is difficult to explain although it parallels some research in the United States. Overall, the models explain about 75 per cent of the variability in audit fees.     

审计费用的事前确定、异常审计费用与审计质量

实务中,我国部分上市公司年报审计费用采取事前确定方式,也就是在审计工作开展之前的董事会上确定。事前确定审计费用的动机何在,会产生什么样的审计后果?已有国内外文献尚缺乏这方面的研究。本文以2008～2017年全部A股上市公司为样本,通过实证考察审计费用事前确定方式对异常审计费用以及审计质量的影响发现:基于低价揽客或折价维持客户的经济动因,事前确定的审计费用显著偏低。进一步研究表明,在事前确定审计费用方式下,客户的审计质量更低。本文研究丰富和拓展了审计费用及审计质量决定因素的相关文献,同时也为监管机构规范审计费用确定方式提供了经验证据。     

Future Events—A Conceptual Study of their Significance for Recognition and Measurement A Review Article

A number of research papers present evidence of fee premiums paid to specialist auditors. In this paper, we explore for listed and unlisted New Zealand firms not only the question of whether such premiums exist, but perhaps more importantly why they exist. We find evidence of fee premiums for auditor specialisation defined at the city level but not at the national level. We extend testing to examine the issue of self-selection of auditors by clients; we examine several different industry classification schemes and a number of different specialisation measures; and we consider the issue of portfolio specialists. We find from these additional tests that self-selection does not account for the existence of specialisation premiums; various alternative classification schemes all result in premiums at the city level; and portfolio specialists also earn fee premiums when portfolio specialisation is measured at the city level. We find that these specialist premiums apply most consistently to larger client firms and to low-risk firms. We consider various explanations and conclude that this result is consistent with non-specialist auditors providing discounts to attract desirable clients. Desirable clients – those that are large or low risk – are not able to negotiate fees as successfully with auditors who have differentiated themselves via industry specialisation.