zahra fathee; Mahdi Bahar Moghaddam; omid pourheidari
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Auditors use professional judgment throughout the audit process. If the auditor's philosophical thinking has the comprehensiveness, reflection, and flexibility, it will lead to more professional judgment. Also, due to the increasing attention paid by audit firms to timing budgets as a measure of efficiency, ...
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Auditors use professional judgment throughout the audit process. If the auditor's philosophical thinking has the comprehensiveness, reflection, and flexibility, it will lead to more professional judgment. Also, due to the increasing attention paid by audit firms to timing budgets as a measure of efficiency, their difficulties in measuring audit quality have exacerbated the potential conflict between control costs and access to high quality audits. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of auditor's philosophical mentality on the auditor's professional judgment as well as the effect of time budget pressure on auditor's professional judgment and the effect of time budget pressure on the relationship between auditor's philosophical mentality and auditor's professional judgment. The research method was descriptive-survey and data were collected from a questionnaire distributed among auditors of auditing organization and auditing institutes member of CAA including all audit partners, managers and supervisors. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the three dimensions of philosophical mentality and professional judgment in the auditing firms of the member of the Iranian Society of Certified Public Accountants. Due to increased budgetary pressure, non-professional behavior is also more likely to occur. Thus, the mentality of completing the work due to budgetary pressures precludes auditors from applying the optimal philosophical mindset, and this may cause the auditor to judge superficially.
Mahdi Bahar Moghadam; Mahnaz Salari
Volume 9, Issue 33 , April 2011, , Pages 59-80
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In this study the relationship between accounting depreciation and economic depreciation has been studied. If the equality of accounting depreciation and economic depreciation is demonstrated, it is expected to be a negative and statistically significant relationship between accounting depreciation ...
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In this study the relationship between accounting depreciation and economic depreciation has been studied. If the equality of accounting depreciation and economic depreciation is demonstrated, it is expected to be a negative and statistically significant relationship between accounting depreciation and current cash flows. But if there is conservatism in reporting depreciation, the relationship between accounting depreciation and future cash flows is expected to be negative. The reason is that before the economic depreciation of assets occurs; accounting depreciation in financial reports is recognized. Usually companies adopt a more conservative approach, to be able to report better performance in the future. For this research, the multiple regression model and information of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during the period 2001-2010 were used. Results showed that there is no significant relationship between current cash flows and accounting depreciation. It can be argued that accounting depreciation and economic depreciation don’t change proportionately. But the relationship between accounting depreciation and future cash flows is negative and significant. Therefore it can be concluded that there is a conservative approach in reporting depreciation. And finally, in spite of the aforementioned expectations, there is Negative correlation between conservative reporting of depreciation and future growth opportunities.
