Attitude toward business environment of auditing,corporate governance and balance between auditing and marketing

The aim of this study was to evaluate the attitude of Iranian auditors toward balance between auditing and marketing with respect to two important components of audit process such as business environment of auditing and corporate governance. The analysis is based on survey data from 257 respondents. To achieve the research aims, we specified four hypotheses based on social theories. The results of this study show that the auditors having positive attitude toward marketing and those who consider it as significant are able, to a large extent, balance spent time for inherent auditing tasks and marketing activities. In addition, the results show that an increase by a unit for the attitude toward business environment results in 0.489 unit increase in attitude toward balance of time spent on marketing and auditing activities, of which 0.396 is direct impact and 0.093 is indirect impact.     

我国注册会计师行业发展主要问题及成因研究——基于审计报告提供者和需求者的问卷调查分析

本文采用问卷调查研究方法,对审计报告提供者的会计师事务所和审计报告的主要需求者被审计单位、机构投资者与个人投资者进行了问卷调研,研究发现,约七成调查对象认为我国审计质量在不断提高,但审计报告提供者和需求者之间对现有审计质量的认知存在较大差异。我国注册会计师行业发展也面临相应的问题,具体表现为审计质量与社会公众的审计期望差距较大、注册会计师同业和供需之间市场竞争环境存在矛盾、注册会计师行业数字化建设落后以及注册会计师行业人才供给不足。     

新《会计法》实施情况的问卷调查分析

本文对新《会计法》实施后的社会影响、实行效果以及公众对会计法律问题的态度进行了调查分析 ,调查结果显示 :新《会计法》已有一定社会影响 ,对会计人员的宣传普及工作也基本到位 ;公众对新《会计法》的规定普遍赞成 ,对其实际效果态度较为谨慎 ;新《会计法》的实施取得了一定成效 ,但会计法律制度仍需进一步落实与完善。针对调查所反映的问题 ,本文最后提出了一些思考与政策建议。     

Public Audit: A Comment and a Clarification of CIPFA's Views

This article aims to clarify CIPFA's views on the arrangements for 'public audit', as reflected in its submissions to the Nolan Committee and the subsequent Cabinet Office/Treasury Review of external audit in the public services. In particular, it attempts to correct perceived misapprehensions about CIPFA's attitude to the role of the private audit firms in public sector audit.     

试论社保资金审计的现状及对策

本文认为目前我国社保资金审计存在着对社保资金审计的意义认识不清,审计社保资金依据尚不健全,审计内容把握不准等问题。加强社保资金审计要正确认识社保资金审计的作用,准确定位审计的目标;努力规范审计内容,不断改进审计方式方法,以争取最佳社保资金审计的效果。     

资本市场开放、企业社会责任与审计费用

外部审计作为资本市场看门人,对防范化解资本市场开放外生冲击,维护内地金融市场稳定性具有重要作用.本文基于"沪深港通"制度背景,引入瓦莱斯实证式审计理论结构,探讨了资本市场开放对审计费用的影响,以及企业社会责任的调节效应.基于2010-2020年A股上市公司数据分析发现:资本市场开放后审计费用增加显著,投资者的财务信息需...     

审计理论体系逻辑起点新探

自20世纪90年代以来,西方的新制度经济学及产权理论、交易费用理论传入我国,与我国的制度演变相结合,引起了我国经济学的革命,也掀起了作为经济学的分支学科——会计学的革命。我们也有必要从新的视角对整个审计理论体系进行审视,这种审视的系统性、深刻性,要求首先对赖以演绎出整个审计理论体系的逻辑起点进行新的审视。逻辑起点具有先导性,是推动学科研究进一步发展成熟的基础;逻辑起点还同时具有终极性,这既意味着它是审计理论中最为基本的范畴,同时也是审计理论体系的出发点和目的。文章全面剖析了审计动因的产权因素,从产权经济学角度审视审计理论体系,确立审计理论体系的逻辑起点——产权动因论。     

审计及其道德风险的经济学评述

本文跳出审计实务和技术的束缚,力图从政治经济学的角度重新阐释审计的社会涵义,指出审计已经逐渐成为现代社会的一项基本原则。在此立论下,着力从经济、社会、文化层面评述了审计道德、审计道德风险及其治理等相关问题。     

The Dempster‐Shafer Theory: An Introduction and Fraud Risk Assessment Illustration

This article introduces the Dempster‐Shafer theory (DS theory) of belief functions for managing uncertainties, specifically in the auditing and information systems domains. The use of DS theory is illustrated by deriving a fraud risk assessment formula for a simplified version of a model developed by Srivastava et al. (2007). In this formulation, fraud risk is the normalised product of four risks: risk that management has incentives to commit fraud; risk that management has opportunities to commit fraud; risk that management has an attitude to rationalise committing fraud; and risk that an auditor's special procedures will fail to detect fraud. The article demonstrates how to use such a model to plan for a financial audit where management fraud risk is assessed to be high. In addition, it discusses whether audit planning is better served by an integrated audit/fraud risk assessment as now suggested in SAS 107 (AICPA 2006a, see also ASA 200 in AUASB 2007) or by the approach illustrated here where a parallel, but separate, assessment is made of audit risk and fraud risk.     

转移支付审计中应正确处理的几个关系

本文立足于近年的审计实践,根据十一五规划和十七大确定的财税改革目标,提出应处理好转移支付审计与公共财政改革、社会经济发展、加强依法行政的关系,以综合绩效审计为着力点和落脚点,监督与服务并重,公平与效率兼顾,促进规划、计划与资金管理的结合,促进转移支付政策效益和整体效益的提高。     

国家治理与国家审计:基于国家建构理论的分析

基于福山的国家构建理论,本文从本源上对国家治理与国家审计的关系及其互动机制进行了详细剖析,认为国家治理与国家审计的互动主要是透过组织的设计与管理、政治制度的设计、合法化的基础、文化与社会等四个决定制度供给的要素展开的。具体而言,组织的设计与管理、政治制度的设计、合法化的基础、文化与社会等要素的完善有助于国家审计的完善,同时国家审计通过对组织的设计与管理、政治制度的设计、合法化的基础、文化与社会等要素的反向作用改进国家治理。     

内蒙古大学生对荣辱观教育的基本态度——以呼和浩特地区部分大学生调查为例

大学生对社会主义荣辱观教育的基本态度如何?调查结果认为要充分认识大学生荣辱观教育的艰巨性,要营造大学生健康成长的良好社会环境,开展社会实践活动,解决学生实际困难。     

Social Relations and the Differential Local Impact of Global Standards: The Case of International Standards on Auditing

This article contributes to the literature exploring the contextual conditions that lead international standards to produce a differential impact with regard to inducing convergence in local practice. The article documents three types of responses by local audit firms to the implementation of International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) in Russia, namely: (1) those that claim to follow the national auditing standards modelled on ISAs and mandated by audit law; (2) those that voluntarily provide ISA audits in accordance with original ISAs; and (3) those that provide pseudo audits (‘black audits’) and ignore auditing standards. The study investigates a link between these different responses and the degree of the indigenous firms' social embeddedness in relation to the international audit firms that first introduced ISAs to Russia. The article argues that the higher the embeddedness levels the more likely the audit firms will genuinely commit to following the standards. It also shows that social embeddedness is influenced by a number of conditions, including geographical proximity between the indigenous and international audit firms, as well as commonalities in their professional characteristics, such as aspiration to intraprofessional status and target clientele. The study's findings demonstrate that the local impact of international standards is dependent not just on the characteristics of the local institutional environments in which the adopters operate but also on the social structures and relationships within which they are embedded.     

Accounting for African migrants in Naples, Italy

The increasing interest in international migration and the African dimensions of that migration in Europe has received considerable attention by scholars recently. Accounting has been largely absent from contributing to that research. In this article, I address how the limits of a managerialist social accounting of African migrants in Naples, Italy might offer useful insight into the social and economic dimensions of irregular African migrants working in the city's underground economy. To do this, I employed the methods of anthropology and ethnographic study. In a case study of a social audit introduced by a public transit company to control petty crime, I examine how that audit produced an excess knowledge about African migrants that extended beyond it procedural purpose. Beyond the limits of its structure it revealed significant knowledge about the informal economies of remittances sent to Africa.     

The influence of judges' attitudes on liability assessments related to failed audits exhibiting significant audit team over-time or significant use of off-shore auditors

This study provides evidence on how audit firms' decisions to use offshore (outsourced) auditors or to assign on-site (local) auditors extensive overtime affect judges' evaluation of auditor legal liability I conduct a behavioral experiment in which actual judges responded to a hypothetical audit lawsuit. The results suggest auditors may be penalized during the litigation process depending on the extent of overtime or off-shoring and judges' attitude toward the public accounting profession. Judges with a positive attitude toward public accounting assessed more liability for an audit firm that used offshore (outsourced) auditors than for the use of extensive overtime for on-site auditors or a control condition. However, judges with a negative attitude toward the auditing profession assessed higher liability for auditors except when on-site auditors bore significant overtime in the final weeks of the audit.     

打破影响审计独立性的“黑箱模式”

伴随着雷曼"回购105"事件的发生,审计质量又一次成为社会各界关注的焦点,而如何保持社会审计的灵魂—审计独立性,也引发了一场激烈的讨论。本文通过对审计三方关系的论述,尤其是对第一、第二方关系的讨论,综合分析3种主流的关于保持审计独立性的方案,进而对我国社会审计独立性的缺失提出一些思考。     

Shady car dealings and taxing work practices: An ethnography of a tax audit process

The empirical focus of this article is a ten-month ethnography of a tax audit process led by the Danish Tax and Customs Administration. The tax audit concerns a number of shady car dealings from which taxable income is not reported. This article focuses on the process whereby the tax administration succeeds in making some of these car dealings visible. This article draws inspiration from interpretative tax studies that consider taxation as an organisational, institutional, social and cultural phenomenon. Complementing those studies’ approaches, the present study draws both on Latour’s concept of the oligopticon and on Foucault’s notion of the panopticon. The analysis shows that tax inspectors produce oligoptic and panoptic visions when they account for taxpayers’ economic activities and that tax inspectors’ visions are received differently by the represented taxpayers. Some taxpayers fall out of sight, whereas others are highly visible and are interrogated in detail. Using the concepts of the oligopticon and the panopticon to analyse the tax audit process is significant for interpretative tax and accounting studies, because this theoretical approach represents an original method of conceptualising taxation in practice and the work implied in tax administration. Furthermore, due to its detailed ethnography of the tax audit process, this study makes a significant methodological contribution.     

国家治理框架下的中国国家审计理论体系构建研究

国家审计是国家治理必不可少的组成部分,对国民经济社会健康运行发挥"免疫系统"功能。国家审计理论是通过对国家审计实践中客观的、合乎逻辑的规律加以概括、抽象而形成的完整的知识体系,用以指导国家审计实践,并在审计实践中加以修正和完善。文章在回顾与评述现有审计理论体系研究的基础上,以国家治理为框架,系统分析构筑了包括国家审计基础理论、国家审计应用理论和国家审计发展理论为内容的国家审计理论体系,以在理论上归纳中国国家审计实践发展经验,并提供未来国家审计理论的研究方向,以期更好地为指导国家审计实践开展服务。     

Client corruption culture and audit quality: the conditioning effect of the competitive position of the incumbent auditor

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting - Prior research suggests that corporate corruption culture captures an audit client’s general attitude towards opportunistic behavior. In this...     

The association between individual audit partners’ risk preferences and the composition of their client portfolios

We explore whether audit partners’ attitude towards risk, as measured by their personal criminal convictions, are reflected in the composition of their client portfolios. Analyzing a unique dataset of Swedish audit partners’ criminal convictions, we find that the clients of audit partners with criminal convictions are characterized by greater financial, governance, and reporting risk than those of audit partners without criminal convictions. Also, clients of audit partners with criminal convictions pay larger audit fees, on average, than those of auditors without criminal convictions.