Effects of Audit Quality, Culture Value, and Firm' Size on Earnings Reporting Quality

Penelitian ini menguji hubungan antara kualitas audit, nilai budaya, ukuran Perusahaan dan kualitas laba yang dilaporkan, dengan menggunakan 328 Perusahaan transportasi sebagai sampel untuk periode 2004-2009 pada tujuh negara di Asia. Penelitian ini gagal menunjukkan bahwa auditor dalam grup “The Big 4” berfungsi sebagai penghambat praktik manajemen laba. Akan tetapi, bukti empiris menunjukkan bahwa Perusahaan-Perusahaan di negara-negara yang memiliki skor budaya “penghindaran ketidakpastian” yang tinggi cenderung memiliki tingkat manajemen laba yang rendah dan oleh karena itu laba yang dilaporkan memiliki kualitas yang tinggi. Hasil penelitian ini juga sangat mendukung hipotesis biaya politis yang berpendapat bahwa Perusahaan-Perusahaan yang lebih besar lebih menjadi perhatian publik dan aksi politik yang ada di dalamnya menunjukkan perilaku manajemen laba yang tidak begitu agresif

Auditor Quality and Discretionary Accruals: Case of Australian Listed Companies

This study empirically examines the relation between two dimensions of auditor quality: auditor independence and auditor specialization, and the level of discretionary accruals, a proxy for earnings management. This study focuses on earnings management in response to mounting pressure amongst investors, policy makers and corporate governance reformists for mechanism to curb excessive opportunistic behaviour amongst corporate management. Auditor independence and auditor specialization are the epicentre of this analysis as these two factors are considered to be key determinants of earnings management. As earnings management, auditor independence and auditor specialization are unobservable, I use absolute discretionary accruals, the ratio of non-audit to total fees and auditor industry market share as respective proxies. Using 2004 data hand collected from 325 Australian publicly listed firms I find no sig-nificant association between the non-audit/total fee ratio and the magnitude of earnings man-agement. Thus, this result suggests the provision of non-audit services by the incumbent auditor does not compromise independence and, therefore, the auditor's ability to constrain earnings management. This study also fail to find a firm engaging an audit firm with industry specializa-tion skills has significantly lower levels of absolute discretionary accruals than a firm using the services of a non-specialist. The main findings of this study are robust to various sensitivity checks. Findings have implications for various stakeholders. For instance, there is currently ap-pears to be a preoccupation amongst corporate governance reformists and policy makers inter-nationally to curb the provision of non-audit services by the incumbent auditor to aid in such matters as the reduction in earnings management. These findings suggest this preoccupation may be misplaced and that constraining the ability of firms purchase non-audit services from the in-cumbent auditor could provide only limited benefits whilst increasing costs. In addition, policy makers and reformists need to consider more clearly the costs and benefits of any moves to limit industry concentrations within the audit market

Diversity in Risk Communication

This study analyses the communication of the five major categories of risk (business, strategy, market and credit risk disclosure) over the volatile 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) time period in key South East Asian countries’ manufacturing listed companies. This study is important as it contributes to the literature by providing insights into the voluntary risk disclosure practices using sample countries with different economic scenarios. Key findings are that business risk is the most disclosed category and strategy risk is the least disclosed. Business and credit risk disclosure consistently increase over the three year period, while operating, market and strategy risk disclosure increase in 2008, but then decrease slightly in 2009. Statistical analysis reveals that country of incorporation and size help predict risk disclosure levels. The overall low disclosure levels (26- 29%) highlight the potential for far higher communication of key risk factors

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