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.
Javad Shekarkhah; fereshteh ahmadi pak; Isaac Behshour
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This research aims to investigate the role of independent auditors and audit committees (AC) in mitigating the fraud risks. Prior studies have showed that all auditors or audit committees are not equally adept at identifying and reducing fraud risks by using non-financial measures (NFMs). This study’s ...
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This research aims to investigate the role of independent auditors and audit committees (AC) in mitigating the fraud risks. Prior studies have showed that all auditors or audit committees are not equally adept at identifying and reducing fraud risks by using non-financial measures (NFMs). This study’s research population covers the corporates listed on Tehran Security Exchange in 2014-2018. Hypotheses were tested using logistic regressions. Findings indicate some significantly negative relationships between auditor efforts, auditor tenure, AC chairs, auditor and AC chair expertise with fraud risks. Also, no significant relationship was found between expertise of AC chairs and fraud risk likelihood. The results indicate that audit processes can mitigate fraud risks, however, not all types of AC expertise can be helpful.
Ghodratollah Nikzad Chaleshtori; Mehdi Arabsalehi; Daryush Foroghi
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A review of the accounting theoretical literature confirms the role of CEO human capital as a valuable intangible asset for the company. The purpose of this study is to determine the effective criteria on the CEO human capital and to explain a comprehensive and multi-criteria model for measuring the ...
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A review of the accounting theoretical literature confirms the role of CEO human capital as a valuable intangible asset for the company. The purpose of this study is to determine the effective criteria on the CEO human capital and to explain a comprehensive and multi-criteria model for measuring the CEO human capital and evaluate the impact of the CEO human capital on the Earnings Forecasts Quality. For this purpose, firstly, the CEO human capital criteria were identified and experts' opinions regarding the weight of each of these criteria collected through a questionnaire and explained using the Shannon entropy technique of comprehensive CEO human capital model. Then, using the proposed model, the CEO human capital index was calculated for a sample of 70 the firms listed on the TSE during the period 2012-2017 and the impact of CEO human capital on Earnings Forecasts Quality was tested by estimating the regression model. The results show that Education level, work experience and industry-related field are important criteria of CEO human capital from the experts' point of view. Also, the results of the analysis of the research hypothesis showed that the improvement of the CEO human capital index has a positive effect on the horizon of earning forecast and reduces the bias of earning forecast. While the impact of the CEO human capital on the error of earning forecast and the range of earning forecast was not confirmed .
Vahid Mennati; Okhtharoon Alipour
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Objectivity is one of the four fundamental principles of internal auditors Code of Ethics. In 2010, The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) introduced the Value Proposition and objectivity is one of the three core elements of it. Also, according to Auditing Standard No. 610, objectivity is one of the ...
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Objectivity is one of the four fundamental principles of internal auditors Code of Ethics. In 2010, The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) introduced the Value Proposition and objectivity is one of the three core elements of it. Also, according to Auditing Standard No. 610, objectivity is one of the main components of internal auditing. Use of internal Audit Function (IAF) as a Management Training Ground (MTG) is in companies that internal auditors are promoted to executive positions. This can impair their objectivity and affect the reliance of independent auditors on their work. So the purpose of this study is to investigate the level of the External Auditor’s Reliance Decision on the Internal Auditors Function as a MTG. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reliance of external auditors on the work of internal auditors according to the strategy of MTG. Participants of this study are External auditors including partners, managers, senior supervisors, and senior auditors of Iranian audit firms. In this survey, 100 questionnaires were collected. The results of the study show that external auditors perceive internal auditors employed in an IAF used as a MTG to be less objective. The results also showed that external auditors perceive the competence and due professional care of IAFs used as a MTG less than other IAFs.
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Navid Reza Namazi; Pedram Azizi
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the moderating effect of auditing quality on the relationship between financial reporting quality and initial public offerings (IPOs) underpricing of stocks. The population of this study is the companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) and OTC of ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the moderating effect of auditing quality on the relationship between financial reporting quality and initial public offerings (IPOs) underpricing of stocks. The population of this study is the companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) and OTC of Iran. The statistical sample consists of 230 companies in the period of 18 years, from 2001 to 2019. The results showed that on average, 25% of the initial public offering underpricing of stocks occurs in the Iranian capital market. In addition, the findings of the regression analysis using the E views software indicated that the financial reporting quality has a negative and significant effect on the initial public offerings underpricing of stocks. In other words, the high financial reporting quality prevents the initial public offering underpricing. It was also found that audit quality (in terms of the type of auditor's opinions) enhances the relationship between financial reporting quality and the initial public offerings underpricing of stocks. However, the size of the audit firm and the auditor's tenure do not moderate the relationship.
seyed ali Vaez; Rahim Bonabi ghadim; Sajjad Chinekesh
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The value of a company is influenced by many factors such as the weakness of internal controls and the information quality resulting from it. In the meantime, level of investment and credit rating of the company can offset the weaknesses of internal controls and prevent devaluation of the company in ...
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The value of a company is influenced by many factors such as the weakness of internal controls and the information quality resulting from it. In the meantime, level of investment and credit rating of the company can offset the weaknesses of internal controls and prevent devaluation of the company in this respect. The purpose of study was to investigate the effect of investment and credit rating on relationship between internal control weakness and firm value. This study was a descriptive- post event one in nature and method, an applied one objectively. To test the research hypotheses, 112 companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange for the period 2012 to 2018 were selected and studied. The results of hypothesis testing showed that internal control weakness had a negative effect on firm value and Investment has no effect on the relationship between internal control weakness and firm value but credit ratings has effected relationship between internal control weakness and firm value and increases the Firm value. In other words, a high credit rating, as an alternative to weak internal control, prevents from increase in the cost of capital.
Mohammad Poorsamiei; Mohammadreza Abdoli; Hasan Valiyan; Mehdi Safari gerayli
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Critical thinking in any profession will help the dynamism of that profession to create responsibility. Auditing also requires critical thinking to meet the needs and expectations of stakeholders in the capital market, a thinking that better understands deviant approaches, distortion, and fraud in financial ...
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Critical thinking in any profession will help the dynamism of that profession to create responsibility. Auditing also requires critical thinking to meet the needs and expectations of stakeholders in the capital market, a thinking that better understands deviant approaches, distortion, and fraud in financial performance, and demonstrates a stronger understanding and intuition against such situations. This research seeks to identify the approaches of critical thinking of auditors and its representation in the form of link analysis. In order to identify the criteria for critical thinking in the profession, systematic search was used on theoretical foundations with the help of accounting experts. Through metasyn thesis analysis, the propositions related to critical thinking in the profession were identified and as a result, the components of analytical capability, inferential capability and intuitive capability were determined as important dimensions in creating critical thinking in the auditing profession. There was a systemic link between connections and impact. The results showed that in order to strengthen the approaches of critical thinking in professional judgments, the existence of technical and specialized knowledge is considered as an important stimulus that gives the auditor results such as improving the level of intuition and the power of mental analysis.
