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Risk Management Functions and Audit Report Lag among Listed Saudi Manufacturing Companies

  • OMER, Waddah Kamal Hassan;ALJAAIDI, Khaled Salmen;AL-MOATAZ, Ehsan Saleh
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.8
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2020
  • This paper examines whether the combination of risk management and audit committee functions are associated with audit report lag. Audit report lag is considered an important aspect of the financial reporting. The financial reports are the main source of information for shareholders through which they make their decisions and it assists in reducing the information asymmetry. As the internal control mechanisms substitute the external ones, the internal board committees formed by the board of directors can reduce the audit work and, consequently, reduces the audit report lag. A key committee is the risk management committee. This paper examines whether the combination of risk management and audit committee functions are associated with audit report lag. We posit that a combination of such functions in one committee refereed as audit committee affects the audit report delay. Data were obtained from 198 manufacturing companies listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) for the years 2016-2018. A pooled OLS regression analysis shows that a combination of risk management and audit committee functions in a stand-alone committee named "audit committee" is associated with longer audit report lag. The outcomes suggest companies should prioritize the establishment of standalone risk management committee with activities separated from those of audit committees.

The Effect of KICPA Audit Proficiency on Discretionary Accruals (한국공인회계사회 감사숙련도가 재량적 발생액에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Nam-Hun;Lee, Yong-Kyu
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.31-47
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    • 2019
  • The recently revised Act on External Audit has taken effect as of November 2018, where standard audit hour rule is included to enhance the audit quality requiring appropriate audit hour input. It has two issues, one is how much the standard audit hours should be and the other is how to control the auditor proficiency between positions when deciding standard audit hours. This paper focuses on the latter issue and studies if auditor proficiency measured with the KICPA position proficiency weight is economically meaningful and has audit quality implication. The KICPA proficiency weights of partner and junior CPA are 1.2, and 0.4 with senior CPA being 1. The results are as follows. First, we find that the audit proficiency decreases discretionary accruals, the proxy of audit quality. Second, the degree to which the audit proficiency decreases discretionary accruals is pronounced with non-big4 firm. The results imply that the KICPA position proficiency weight reflects auditor experiences which help to improve audit quality.

A Study on the Audit Framework for Web Contents and Design (웹 컨텐츠 및 디자인 중심의 감리모형 연구)

  • Kim, Dong-Soo;Baek, Hye-Jin;Kang, Jae-Hwa;Kim, Hee-Wan
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.87-101
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    • 2009
  • The current information system audit merely inspects a web based information system by focusing on checking items that are extracted from structured and information engineering model and object-oriented component model. As a result, the checking item of web contents and design is inadequate. This paper aims to extract audit framework in order to strengthen the audit of web contents and design during the development of the web based information system and to suggest checking items based on audit framework. For this, the web development process and web site evaluation model were studied, compared, and analyzed with the current information system development audit. From a result of the survey, it was found that the adequacy of the suggested audit framework and audit checking items is above the average value. It is believed that the suggested audit framework is helpful for the audit of web based information system.

An Exploratory Study on the IS Audit's Effectiveness Determination between Interest Groups (정보시스템 감리 이해집단별 감리효과 결정요인에 관한 탐색적 연구)

  • Choi, YoungJin;Jung, YongKyu;Ra, JongHei
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.115-123
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    • 2017
  • IS audit has been regarded as contributing to the improvement of the quality of information Systems, recently, it has been argued that it is not possible to expect a effectiveness, because it can offset the schedule burden due to the preparation of additional documents for Audit and it affect to the project schedule. The effectiveness and quality criteria of IS audit are different between groups, because IS audit is responsible for checking the results and process of the developer company. In this study, we modeled between IS effectiveness and auditor competence, audit firm competence, IS audit standards. As a result, it was concluded that auditor competence, audit firm competence, IS audit standards have a positive effect on IS audit effectiveness. However, according to the result of comparing between interest groups, audit firm competence and audit standards were significant in auditor group, but audit standard was significant in requesting organization and developing company thought that auditor was a important factor to audit effectiveness.

The Adoption of Risk Based Audit Approach in the Independent Audit Firms: A Study of Case of Vietnam

  • LE, Thi Tam;NGUYEN, Thi Mai Anh
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2020
  • This study was conducted to examine how independent audit firms in Vietnam understand and use risk based audit approach (RBAA) in audit practice. To answer the research questions, the researchers used primary and secondary data collected from 2018 to 2019. The results from the interview survey showed that audit firms were aware of the advantages of adopting RBAA. However, RBAA is practiced to a moderate extent by audit firms in Vietnam. Big 4 audit firms use RBAA more popularly than Non-Big 4 audit firms. The causes of the difference are the disadvantages of adopting RBAA and client's characteristics such as relevant guideline, audit fees, auditors' knowledge and experience. Besides, the study investigated factors impacting on the RBAA adoption by distributing a questionnaire to 246 auditors of 126 audit firms in Vietnam. A set of statistical appropriate methods where used through SPSS software version 22.0. The results indicated that there were six factors influencing RBAA adoption including: Auditor's ability, Technological development, Audit fees, auditors' motivation, Audit time and client's risk. Of which, auditor's ability and technological development are factors that have the most significant and positive impacts on the adoption of RBAA. Additional implications were argued in the final section of this study.

The Influence of Public Welfare and Audit Findings on Audit Opinion: Empirical Evidence from Provincial Data in Indonesia

  • YAYA, Rizal;IRFANA, Siti Syifa;RIYADH, Hosam Alden;SOFYANI, Hafiez
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.181-191
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    • 2021
  • The aim of the study is to empirically investigate and analyze the influence of public welfare, audit findings, and follow-up of audit recommendations on audit opinion with the disclosure level of financial reports as an intervening variable using agency theory and signaling theory. To achieve this purpose, a quantitative research method was employed. Population of this study is Provincial Government Financial Reports in Indonesia for fiscal years 2016 to 2018. There were 84 financial reports that met the criteria of purposive sampling. The data were gathered from the websites of the Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia and the Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics. In this study, the hypothesis-testing tool is path analysis using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 15. Based on the multiple regression analysis, the results show that audit findings, public income, and the disclosure level of financial reports significantly influenced audit opinion. Besides, the follow-up of audit recommendations and public health significantly influenced audit opinion through the disclosure level of financial reports. This study suggests that, in order to have better audit opinion, local governments need to improve public welfare, follow-up audit finding, and disclose more details in financial report.

Security Audit System for Secure Router

  • Doo, So-Young;Kim, Ki-Young
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1602-1605
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    • 2005
  • An audit tracer is one of the last ways to defend an attack for network equipments. Firewall and IDS which block off an attack in advance are active way and audit tracing is passive way which analogizes a type and a situation of an attack from log after an attack. This paper explains importance of audit trace function in network equipment for security and defines events which we must leave by security audit log. We design and implement security audit system for secure router. This paper explains the reason why we separate general audit log and security audit log.

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A Study on the Auditor's Altitudes to Perform Effective Quality Audit (효과적인 품질감사를 위한 감사자의 자세에 대한 고찰)

  • 김영세;박건우;박상필
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.18 no.36
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    • pp.315-322
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    • 1995
  • Quality audit is one of tools to evaluate the effectiveness and compliance of quality system. Quality system will be improved through quality audit. This paper describes the considerations such as audit team, audit process, audit checklist and auditor's communication skills to perform effective quality audit. The result of quality audit depends on the auditees attitudes. Thus, the auditor's manner is very important to gain a good audit result.

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Design of Audit Model in Web-based Information System (웹 기반 정보시스템에서의 감리모형 설계)

  • Ko, Kyung Ei;Choi, Jin Tak;Kim, Dong Soo;Kim, Hee Wan
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.10 no.9
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    • pp.123-136
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    • 2012
  • Web applications are widely used by the development of the Internet, but there are no separate audit model for a web-based information systems. Information business has a wide variety of characteristics. So, web-based information system audit model is needed. Therefore, a web-based information system audit model was proposed to enhance the effectiveness of audit and to increase the quality. Audit check lists were applied based on three sets of existing information audit check framework. An audit point of time was defined as analysis, design, and implementation. An audit domain was defined as contents, design, and process. Moreover, audit viewpoint and inspection standards were defined by setting standards of process, product, and performance. Moreover, this paper proposes differences between an existing model of information system development methodology and web-based information system. It also deduced audit checklists according to audit domains for web-based information system audit. The deduced audit checklists were verified for its suitability by conducting surveys, and the modified audit inspection model, in which the deduced audit checklists were applied, was proposed.

Improvement Plan of the Local Government Audit System (지방자치단체 감사제도의 개선방안)

  • Park, Jong-Gwan
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.15 no.9
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    • pp.106-117
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    • 2015
  • Audit system of local self-government has a problem in many sectors, for the development of local autonomy, improvement of these issues is essential. The purpose of this study was to improve the present problems by looking at the problems of local governments audit system. The problem with local governments audit system are as follows. First, the non-efficiency and redundancy of internal and external audit exist. Second, in terms of audit organization and mechanism of local government, independence is deficient. Third, the expertise is lacking in terms of audit personnel. Fourth, it is insufficient effectiveness ensure regarding the processing of the Audit Office at the time and results. Improvement plan of the problems of local governments audit system are as follows. First, the unification of the country and local governments of the audit and there is a need to establish a legal system on the local audit. Second, the establishment of independent internal audit mechanism for ensuring the independence of the internal audit mechanism. Third, introducing a variety of personnel system related to the human resources of audit personnel and there is a need and strengthening of education and training to the audit personnel. Fourth, the public of the audit, community participation, and etc results in the effectiveness and democratic ensuring of audit.