• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.75-83
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• 2021

This research is to analyze how an introduction of full-time quality control("QC") personnel system in audit firms influences on audit quality and verify how important it is to establish the quality control system for auditing quality. We measure audit quality as the level of discretionary accruals and compare the differences between audit firms with QC and without QC. In addition, we analyze the difference in audit qualities between before and after activating the full-time QC personnel system by comparing audit quality of before 2015 with that of after 2016. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, the audit quality is higher when audit firms have QC personnel. Second, the audit quality is improved after the introduction of the full-time QC personnel system.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.121-135
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• 2006

With the growth and maturation of IT industry, the necessity of audit about development, maintenance and management of high-quality information system is gradually increasing. In addition, the necessity of inner auditing system, which could totally verify and evaluate the effectiveness of project according to the characteristics of organization conducting information-oriented business, also being proposed. Government offices including Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KISTI) collectively controlling nationwide science-technology related information have no guiding principle or organization within themselves even though performing information-oriented businesses are becoming more bigger and complicated. In this paper, we propose scheme for devising framework, which can audit construction and operation of knowledge information, check list and guideline. In addition, we present concrete ways for adapting these schemes to institutes which manage science-technology knowledge information. Audit framework consists of points of time in audit, audit domain and audit criterion. Points of time in audit are defined as three phases as followings: pre-audit, in-progress audit and post-audit. Audit domain includes 16 detail audit domains and especially we set 11 check items and 40 detail investigation items for database implementation business. We expect that management level of science-technology implementation business of organizations using this research result will increase and they could offer high-quality information service.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.754-766
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• 1997

In this paper,we implement the Audit Trail Service Sydtem for the EDI Security.It has solved a law dispute between enterprises by informations that have generated by the EDI serice systrm.The audit trail service sys-tem implemented for EDI security satisfied the requirements of audit and the protocol of the security serive of X.435 and X.400.The EDI Security Audit System consists of the event discrimiator,the audit recirder,the audit archiver,and the provider of audit services .The event discriminator classified the reansmitted data from the EDI network ot audit sercices.The audit recorder constructs an index that has combined time information wiht audit unformations which are classified by the event discriminator.ZThe audit archiver performas the vacumming of added audit imformations by passing time by passing time.The audit provider is a module that carries out the audit trail servies by using stored audit informations. The audit provider suports audit servies,which are non-requdiation,proof and probe,controller of security,and accesing infrimation.The audit trail service system for EDI security constructs audit information by using index that is combining time imfromation,so it supports especially fast accesing audit information.

• The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.7-19
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• 2021

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate (1) whether the interviewed auditors conduct higher quality audit than the non-interviewed auditors and (2) whether the frequency of audit engagement interviews has an impact on audit quality. Research design, data, and methodology: Using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms between 2011 and 2019, this paper empirically tests the effect of audit engagement interviews on auditor's behavior. We collect the data of audit engagement interviews on the CICPA's website. We use OLS regression, fixed-effect model and random-effect model to examine the association between audit engagement interviews and audit quality. Results: Findings indicate that the audit quality of the interviewed auditors is significantly greater than that of the non-interviewed auditors. The frequency of the audit engagement interviews is positively associated with audit quality. The interviewed auditors spend significantly more time on the audit. Furthermore, the positive association between audit engagement interviews and audit quality only exists in non-Big 4 auditors. Conclusions: Our findings provide evidence for the effectiveness of audit regulation enforcement. The results suggest that in an emerging market with weak legal systems, preventive regulations such as audit interviews have a deterrent effect and are necessary in alleviating information asymmetry and improving information environment.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.213-228
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• 2012

The construction of the Geographical Information System(GIS) is continuously in progress, and with the diversification and complication of the system, the importance of its audit is further deepened. At this point in time, the information system audit has been obligatory as it has been stipulated in law, and the GIS audit has come to follow the criterion of the information system audit since it belongs to the information system audit category. However, it was found that there was a difference between the current information system audit standard and the former GIS audit standard, and the audit checking items for the efficient GIS audit is necessary. For this reason, this paper surveyed the characteristics of GIS in accordance with this necessity, analyzed the GIS audit checking items found in the audit performance guideline of the GIS audit standard, and studied the GIS development methodology through the related literature. In addition, this paper also elicited and proposed the audit checking items for the efficient GIS audit based on the findings of this paper. Finally, this paper confirmed the efficiency of the GIS audit checking items proposed here through the comparison of the actual cases of GIS audits.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.12 no.19
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• pp.89-98
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• 1989

This research addresses the most sophisticated level of complexity of current electronic data processing(EDP) technology realtime, distributed data base(DDB) system. The major objective is to develop guidelines for the control and audit of these sophisticated system, since the control and audit philosophies, control features, and audit techniques applicable to traditional EDP systems are no longer fully appropriate for, or relevant to, these stat-of-art systems. An attempt is made to develop an internally consistent audit and control Conceptual Framework summarizing and integrating the material developed in this research, which then leads into the analysis of the control and audit model.

• 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.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.5
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• pp.109-130
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• 2002

As proceeding Munmin and Kukmin's government, it is to bring in regionalism of genernal public administration and police administration, specialization, efficiency issue, demand inventing of audit technique to meet this trends. Especially, according to supporting qualitative improvement of the audit, its environment faced that orienting performance audit emphasis on not the legality but the efficiency more systematic and scientific theory or technique. In order to attain police audit's efficiency through performance audit, this study discussed that scientific management techniques should be applied police audit. Accordingly, the primary purpose of this study is to apply public audit to scientific management technique, bring to light limits in public sector(especially, police sector). To be efficiency audit(namely, performance audit), 1) OR techniques are explained linear programming, network modeling, PERT/CPM, queuing matrix model, simulation, 2) Statistical analysis methods are argued delphi technique, data envelopment analysis(DEA), analytic hierarchical process(AHP), time series analysis models etc.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.427-436
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• 2020

Prior literature shows that audit market concentration which is measured as the Herfindahl index is negatively associated with audit quality in Korea. This study analyzes whether characteristics of an audit committee have effect on the relation between audit market concentration and audit quality. This is because it is expected that effective audit committees restrict the tendency of dominant auditors to neglect their duties. The empirical results of this study using the sample firms having an audit committee listed in the Korea Composite Stock Price Index market for 2006-2015 are summarized as follows. First, consistent with prior research, audit quality decreases as audit market concentration increases. However, audit quality is not lowered as audit market concentration rises only when the audit committee has financial expertise among representative characteristics of an audit committee - independence, financial expertise, and activity. This research finds contributions in that it explores the effect of audit committee characteristics on audit quality in consideration of audit market concentration and utilizes the differential types of the characteristics of an audit committee at the same time.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.59-69
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• 2019

The auditor, an important instrument of corporate governance, ensures the transparency and accountability of the firm to the stakeholders. The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of audit characteristics on firm performance. In this study, external audit quality (BIG4), frequencies of audit committee meetings, and audit committee size are used as the proxies of audit characteristics and firm performance is measured through ROA, profit margin and EPS. A total of 503 firm years are considered as sample size from the listed manufacturing firms of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) during the period of 2013 to 2017 to find out the impact of audit characteristics on firm performance. In this study, multivariate regression analysis is conducted using the pooled OLS method. Moreover, time dummy and lag model of multivariate analysis are also analyzed as robust check. The multivariate regression results find that external audit quality (BIG4) and audit committee size are significantly positively associated with firm performance. This study also finds that there is a significant negative relationship between audit committee meeting and firm performance. This study recommends that the regulatory authority and audit committee should review the frequencies of audit committee meeting to make it more effective to ensure better firm performance.