Auditor Task-Specific Expertise

Auditor Task-Specific Expertise
Author: Jaehan Ahn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN:

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PCAOB inspections repeatedly indicate deficiencies in audits of FV estimates, resulting in efforts by regulators to improve the related guidance and auditing standards (PCAOB 2017a). Nevertheless, regulators cannot fully resolve the complexity and inherent subjectivity in auditing fair value estimates, and thus, other solutions may be needed. We predict that auditor task-specific FV expertise, gained from work experience during the audit of FV measurements, can contribute to higher audit quality. Utilizing FV-related restatements and comment letters, we find that expertise in auditing Level 3 FV estimates at the office-level is associated with greater FV audit quality. Level 2 FV expertise or national-level FV expertise are not associated with higher FV audit quality. Following the receipt of a comment letter, we further find that auditor FV expertise is associated with lower comment letter remediation costs and higher FV disclosure quality. Finally, we find that the value relevance of Level 3 FV disclosures increases with the extent of auditor FV expertise. Collectively, our results highlight that auditor fair value expertise contributes to the credibility and usefulness of FV disclosures.

Does Task-Specific Knowledge Improve Audit Quality

Does Task-Specific Knowledge Improve Audit Quality
Author: Nathan C. Goldman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN:

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Two forms of expertise can influence audit quality: industry and task-specific expertise. Anecdotal evidence suggests that tax knowledge is task-specific, rather than industry-specific and audit offices with increased exposure to complex tax issues develop this task-specific expertise. Using outcomes related to audits of the income tax accounts, we examine whether tax task-specific knowledge (TSK) affects the audit quality of the income tax accounts and find that tax TSK increases the audit quality of the income tax accounts. We also find evidence of an improved response to misstatements among audit offices with tax TSK, demonstrated by a decreased likelihood of future tax misstatements following the disclosure of a tax restatement. Finally, we observe the effect of tax TSK among audit offices with lower levels of auditor-provided tax services (APTS). This result suggests that audit offices without the benefit of knowledge spillover from APTS rely more on the tax TSK.

Industry Specific and Task Specific Auditing Expertise

Industry Specific and Task Specific Auditing Expertise
Author: Giulio Greco
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

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There is growing interest among academics and auditing regulators on the role of auditing on the quality of accounting estimates including goodwill impairment. Prior research shows that managers exercise discretion when recording goodwill impairment by either delaying the decision to record the impairment, and/or understating the amount of impairment leading to overstatement of earnings. This study examines how auditor industry expertise, measured as within-industry market share, and task specific expertise, measured as the extent of auditor's prior experience with goodwill impairment, mitigates managerial discretion. We find no evidence of an association between industry expertise and goodwill impairment. We find that task specific expertise reduces managerial discretion related to the impairment. Specifically, prior experience with goodwill impairment is positively associated with both the likelihood of recording impairment loss as well as the amount of impairment. Our findings have implications for ongoing discussions about auditor characteristics affecting the quality of accounting estimates.

Auditing Teams

Auditing Teams
Author: Mara Cameran
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2017-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134825609

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The recent audit failures which have rocked financial markets worldwide have accentuated the need for a better understanding of the link between risk, control and audit quality; as well as emphasising the need to open the "black box" of the ways auditing firms actually function. Reflecting these imperatives, Auditing Teams unravels the organizational and management issues in audit firms that are key to achieving effectiveness in service provision. Specifically, this key research reflects upon the relevance and dynamics of auditing teams and their impact on auditing quality, and specifically responding to the recent claim from regulators which highlights auditing team characteristics as the source of wide variations in quality. By leveraging different perspectives – auditing, management accounting, organization and psychology – to investigate auditing teams and basing on evidence collected from the professional world, this book will provide a unique insight into the role of auditing teams on audit quality. It will be of great interest to scholars and advanced students in auditing, as well as to practitioners and regulators in the field.

The Future of Audit

The Future of Audit
Author: Keith A. Houghton
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 773
Release: 2010-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 192166651X

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At a time when increased independence requirements for auditors, legal backing for auditing standards, and increased audit documentation requirements have occurred, this book examines key issues in the market for audit services in Australia. It investigates issues including: the understandability of audit and the state of the audit expectations gap; auditors' business acumen and industry expertise; the auditors' use of materiality; whether or not the increasingly prescriptive nature of auditing is creating a distraction from the 'real' audit task and stifling auditors' judgement; whether or not CLERP 9 reforms involving audit partner rotation and restrictions on non-audit service provision are efficient and effective and reactions to the increasing scrutiny of auditors and audit firms by regulators. With its thorough coverage of contemporary issues, this book intersperses the authors' summaries, interpretations and recommendations with the perceptions, expressed in their own words in order to faithfully convey their candid assessments, of users of audit reports, purchasers and suppliers of the audit product, auditing standard setters and regulators of the audit market.

Auditing Teams

Auditing Teams
Author: Mara Cameran
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2017-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134825536

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The recent audit failures which have rocked financial markets worldwide have accentuated the need for a better understanding of the link between risk, control and audit quality; as well as emphasising the need to open the "black box" of the ways auditing firms actually function. Reflecting these imperatives, Auditing Teams unravels the organizational and management issues in audit firms that are key to achieving effectiveness in service provision. Specifically, this key research reflects upon the relevance and dynamics of auditing teams and their impact on auditing quality, and specifically responding to the recent claim from regulators which highlights auditing team characteristics as the source of wide variations in quality. By leveraging different perspectives – auditing, management accounting, organization and psychology – to investigate auditing teams and basing on evidence collected from the professional world, this book will provide a unique insight into the role of auditing teams on audit quality. It will be of great interest to scholars and advanced students in auditing, as well as to practitioners and regulators in the field.

Auditing Transformation

Auditing Transformation
Author: Jan Marton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2023-08-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 100092694X

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This book identifies drivers of transformation of auditing, including regulation, digitalisation, sustainability, and individual auditor characteristics, and discusses how the drivers affect auditing. It provides a holistic perspective, discussing these current and highly relevant themes in depth and ‘one by one’ and also stresses the importance of the temporal dimension, i.e., offering a historical and a present-day perspective. The book covers several different theoretical perspectives when analysing and discussing how the various drivers affect auditors, the audit process, accounting firms, stakeholders and so on. Sweden is used as a setting to study the effects of these drivers of transition. The Swedish experience is generalisable to other European countries, with a Germanic origin currently influenced by Anglo-American ideas of auditing. In addition, Sweden provides a research setting with unique access to empirical data. The monograph is unique in its broad coverage of drivers of transformation, combined with its clear focus on financial auditing. It is informed by a wide range of research approaches, from qualitative interview studies to recently developed machine learning methods. Readers, therefore, benefit from a comprehensive understanding of current changes in the audit industry. This will be a useful reference work for students of accounting and auditing, as well as for audit practitioners, including both auditors and regulators, and for researchers.

Auditor Multinational Expertise and Audit Quality

Auditor Multinational Expertise and Audit Quality
Author: Joshua L. Gunn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN:

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Over the past several decades, the scope of public companies' operations has become increasingly global. This has led to concern over the ability of audit firms to conduct high-quality audits across geographically dispersed foreign operations. We contribute to the growing body of research in this area by investigating the association between audit quality and local audit offices' expertise in conducting multinational audit engagements. We use two complementary measures to proxy for an audit office's multinational expertise: (i) local multinational market leadership, and (ii) country-specific experience. Using a sample of multinational client firms headquartered in the United States, we consistently find that audit quality is stronger when the auditor possesses expertise conducting global group audits, possesses particular expertise in the country where a client has a significant subsidiary, or possesses both types of expertise on an engagement. Several sample partitions reinforce our main results. The results are robust to propensity score matching as well as a placebo test using clients of the audit office that generate no foreign sales. Our evidence suggests that the challenge of conducting multinational audits is more easily met by auditors with expertise on these types of engagements.

Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research

Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research
Author: Vicky Arnold
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2008-07-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1846639603

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Includes an article that compares the strengths and weaknesses of using a single type of research method to investigate accounting phenomenon and explains why using multiple methods provides a richer understanding of particular issues. This book includes articles, which are useful in facilitating behavioral research.

The Influence of Information Order Effects and Trait Professional Skepticism on Auditors’ Belief Revisions

The Influence of Information Order Effects and Trait Professional Skepticism on Auditors’ Belief Revisions
Author: Kristina Yankova
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-02-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3658088710

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Kristina Yankova addresses the question of what role professional skepticism plays in the context of cognitive biases (the so-called information order effects) in auditor judgment. Professional skepticism is a fundamental concept in auditing. Despite its immense importance to audit practice and the voluminous literature on this issue, professional skepticism is a topic which still involves more questions than answers. The work provides important theoretical and empirical insights into the behavioral implications of professional skepticism in auditing.