审计重要性标准习惯性表述的分析与改进

长期以来,在我国的审计实务中,习惯使用重要性水平作为重要性的标准,并将重要性水平的量化标准等同于允许财务报告错报金额.这种表述与审计重要性概念中的重要性含义存在逻辑上的不一致.本文对这种不一致进行分析并提出了改进建议.     

重要性水平在会计报告审计中的应用

重要性水平在会计报表审计中扮演着十分重要的角色。注册会计师在对会计报表审计时，从审计计划的制定到审计报告的出具均需要使用重要性水平这一概念。但如何正确理解重要性的概念，如何确定合理的重要性水平，却是在会计报表审计实务中面临的现实问题。本拟从实用的角度介绍重要性的概念、报表层次、账户或交易层次的重要性水平的确定及重要性水平在审计报告中的应用。     

析重要必天国家审计中的应用

重要性是现代审计理论与实务中的一个关键概念,我国新修订的《国家审计基本准则》也引入了该概念,本探讨审计重要性概念并揭示了审计重要性与会计重要性一致的原因,在我国国家审计中如何根据不同的审计类型确定重要性水平,如何在审计中运用重要性概念;当前运用重要性概念存在的主要问题以及可能引发的问题。     

浅析审计重要性水平判断

审计重要性的中心问题是确定重要性水平。由于要考虑的不确定变量太多,确定唯一固定的重要性水平缺乏理论基础。实务中,需要注册会计师基于影响审计重要性的因素进行职业判断,并通过公布重要性水平来缩小不同群体的判断差异。     

重要性水平的标准及与审计证据 审计风险 审计程序的关系

重要性是现代审计学的一个概念，在审计实务中掌握和运用这一概念，对于降低审计风险、节约审计资源、提高审计效率，具有十分重要的意义。所谓“重要性”是指被审计单位会计报表中错报或漏报的严重程度，这一程度在特定环境下可能影响会计报表使用者的判断或决策。对于重要性水平的判断，是注册会计师的一种专业判断，不同的注册会计师对同一会计报表的重要性的判断可能存在差异，正确运用重要性概念．对于审计实务工作而言具有十分重要的意义。     

谈谈重要性与审计风险的关系

目前，很多审计教材中都指出重要性与审计风险之间存在反向关系。然而，重要性原则作为审计理论与实务中的一个重要原则涉及到多种重要性水平。对重要性、重要性原则及多种重要性水平不加区分，笼统认为重要性与审计风险存在反向关系，似乎有些欠妥，且易在学习和工作中产生误解。本文试对有关重要性要领进行界定，进而分析其与审计风险的关系。一、有关重要性概念的界定1.重要性。我国《独立审计准则第10号—审计重要性》第二条将重要性定义为：“被审计单位会计报表中错报或漏报的严重程度，这一程度在特定的环境下可能影响会计报表使用者…     

内部控制审计中重要性的诠释

重要性一直是财务报表审计理论和实务中关注的关键内容。内部控制审计这项新业务的实施,引发了理论界和实务界对重要性理念的再次关注。文章围绕内部控制审计指引中有关重要性的法规,借鉴美国PCAOB对重要性理念在内部控制审计中的解释,就在我国内部控制审计中正确理解和运用重要性理念提出有关建议。     

如何确定审计重要性

随着审计不断发展,审计重要性逐步引起人们重视。重要性水平的应用贯穿于整个审计过程始终,对于科学地制定审计计划、确定抽查的样本规模和提出审计评价意见都有重要影响。如何恰当理解和应用重要性水平对于提高审计效率、防范审计风险至关重要。在审计过程中,能否做到合理地确定审计的重要性水平,直接关系到审计是否能够得以顺利地实施。     

重要性水平在世界银行贷款审计中的运用研究

重要性是现代审计理论和实务中的一个非常重要的概念，它贯穿于审计的全过程，是决定审计风险、检查范围和审计程序的直接依据之一。正确确定审计项目中的重要性水平，科学进行审计测试，是确保审计项目质量的重要环节。本文拟对在审计世界银行(以下简称世行)贷款项目时，如何运用重要性水平进行基本的分析和研究。     

审计的重要性确定和风险性评估

不久前，国家审计署为了规范审计行为，提高审计质量，明确审计责任，相继发布了第5、6号令，其中审计机关审计重要性确定与审计风险评估问题，成为审计人员在实务操作中的新课题。为此，我们根据3月份审计署在苏州举办审计项目质量控制办法培训班的精神，结合我省实际，就审计机关审汁重要性水平和风险性水平的计算和运用问题，谈些看法。     

从美国判例入手探讨重要性遵循机制问题

美国法院在一些判例中诠释了重要性概念。这使我们得以探究重要性的遵循机制，并促使我们关注我国新的会计、审计准则体系的实施问题。     

Exploring Material‐Discursive Practices

Our intent in this commentary is to support the turn to materiality in organizational research, and contribute to it by considering some differences in our approach from that proposed by Hardy and Thomas. Drawing on agential realism – which theorizes the entanglement of matter and meaning – we explore the relation between discourse and materiality in terms of the ideas of materialization and performativity as enacted in a study of hotel valuation in the hospitality industry. We offer our comments in the spirit of constructive engagement and hope that our discussion along with others in this Point‐Counterpoint will generate further explorations.     

再论重要性、审计风险与审计证据的关系

审计风险与重要性互为存在的条件,对两者的判断可以充分体现在审计测试中,最终通过审计证据反映审计工作结果,因此,理解审计风险与重要性之间的关系,并在此基础上加以正确评估,对于审计人员开展工作是至关重要的。本文从审计风险、重要性的概念入手,在探讨审计风险、重要性与审计证据属性及分类的基础上.着重阐述三者之间的关系,以期对审计工作起到一定的指导作用。     

Fostering Stakeholder Engagement: The Role of Materiality Disclosure in Integrated Reporting

This paper studies the determinants of materiality disclosure among International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) Pilot Program companies implementing the IIRC Framework. In other words, it studies which variables influence the way in which such companies provides information about their materiality determination process. In order to test our hypotheses we performed a number of statistical analyses on a unique hand‐collected dataset including IIRC and non‐IIRC Pilot Program companies for the 2012 and 2013 fiscal years. Our results indicate that industry and some firm‐level characteristics (board size and diversity) do play a significant role in the determination of materiality disclosure, whereas the legal environment in which companies operate does not. Also, we found that IIRC Pilot Program companies disclosed more information about materiality than their competitors that did not join the program. This paper provides interesting insights for policy makers (in particular, the IIRC) and extends previous academic literature on integrated reporting. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

论重要性原则在会计核算中的运用

重要性原则是会计核算必须遵循的一条基本原则,在会计核算的很多方面都体现着重要性原则的精神。重要性原则在会计核算中的具体运用主要表现在会计账户的设置、会计处理方法的选择和会计信息的披露等3个方面。     

Materiality in integrated and sustainability reporting: A paradigm shift?

This paper investigates the implementation of integrated reporting (IR) by Generali, one of the most important listed companies in Italy. The research questions we aim at answering are the following: Is the IR approach to materiality inherently different from the sustainability reporting (SR) approach? Does IR lead to the identification of different material topics than does SR? On the one hand, institutional theory suggests that IR and SR material topics are going to be significantly different because IR is mainly driven by a market logic, whereas SR is inspired by a stakeholder logic. On the other hand, organizational change theory predicts there will be some resistance to change by the organization, therefore leading to IR and SR topics being similar. In order to answer our research questions, we implement two empirical analyses. First, we propose and develop an innovative methodological approach on the basis of content analysis, which allows measuring the materiality of different issues under the IR approach. Second, we rely on evidence obtained through interviews, which suggests that IR and SR approaches to materiality are inherently different.     

Discourse in a Material World

We challenge recent assertions that discourse studies cannot de facto address materiality. We demonstrate how a Foucauldian theorization of discourse provides a way to analyse the co‐constitutive nature of discursive and material processes, as well as explore the power relations implicated in these relationships. To illustrate our argument, we identify exemplary studies that have effectively combined a study of discourse and different aspects of materiality – bodies, objects, spaces, and practices. In doing so, we show how discourse scholars are able to study both materiality and power relations.     

Unpacking the Dialectic: Alternative Views on the Discourse–Materiality Relationship

This paper extends the issues raised in this forum by highlighting assumptions and characteristics of the discourse–materiality relationship that appears in five explanatory frameworks, including the Foucauldian approach and the materiality–performativity perspective presented in the previous two papers. It argues for preserving the dialectical relationship between the two by holding the tensions between them in continual interplay. Using a dialectic lens, it overviews how each of the frameworks treats the point of entry, nature of the relationship, and management of these tensions.     

Financial materiality in the informativeness of sustainability reporting

This study examines whether financial materiality in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure benefits the stock market by increasing the amount of accessible and relevant firm-specific information. Based on the value relevance of information and the principle of financial materiality, we demonstrate that disclosing material ESG information increases stock price informativeness. We conduct an automated content analysis of 150,000 electronic documents filed by firms listed on the S&P/TSX Composite Index from 1999 to the end of 2014. Our findings show that ESG disclosure is indeed value relevant for investors and that financial materiality in ESG disclosure leads to more informative stock prices. In addition, the effect of ESG disclosure on stock price informativeness differs across the ESG components, being more sensitive to the social component. This study contributes to the literature on sustainability reporting, and in particular to the ongoing discussion about whether the financial materiality of ESG issues matters. This study also deepens the understanding of agency theory predictions about the economic effects of ESG disclosure.     

Performative Achievement of Routine Recognizability: An Analysis of Order Taking Routines at Sushi Bars

The concept of performativity, a central theme in routine dynamics research, suggests that a routine does not first exist as a recognizable phenomenon, and then actions are taken subsequently. On the contrary, actions themselves need to achieve the recognizability of the routine. This paper revisits recognizability in light of routine interdependence and materiality. Focusing on order taking routines at sushi bars, the analysis reveals that participants constantly achieve the beginning of a routine performance by drawing on performances of other routines and materiality, both of which are seemingly unrelated to the focal routine. Prior to routine initiation, much material and embodied work is conducted in order to make the routine recognizable. Once initiated, the routine performance makes subtle use of materiality, allowing participants to engage in a seemingly unrelated routine while they remain subordinately attentive to the focal routine. While a routine appears to exist on its own once it is recognized, the achievement of this recognition relies largely on factors that are not part of the routine.