Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associated Professor of Accounting,Alzahra University,Tehran,Iran

2 Assistant Professor , Payame noor University,Tehran,Iran

Abstract

The recent welcome of companies to capital increases from revaluations has highlighted the role of experts, and increasing trust on the work of experts has led to concerns about audit quality. The aim of this study is to identify the challenges and barriers to using expertise services in auditing and ways to improve it. The research is qualitative and the data were collected through interviews with 17 auditors and Official Experts of Justice official and analyzed by theme analysis.

According to the research findings, weakness of supervision, Lack of expert independence , limitations, structural inefficiency, reluctance of the auditor, non-compliance with the auditor's professional ethics, economic environment and communication problems and coordination of challenges and barriers to using expertise services were identified and rules and regulations improvement, strengthening infrastructure and promoting and developing expertise services, strategies to improve the use of expert services were identified. The results of the research can be useful in order to achieve effective use of experts in the audit process and as a result higher audit quality.

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