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Government-Controlled Companies and Audit Committee Effectiveness: An Empirical Study on Saudi Stock Exchange

  • SHARMA, Raj Bahadur;BAGAIS, Omer Ali;ALJAAIDI, Khaled Salmen
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.363-368
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    • 2021
  • This study attempts to examine whether ownership of government-controlled corporations and audit committee effectiveness are related. The population of this study is 431 listed manufactured firms in the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) for the period 2012-2019 that published their financial and annual reports for the period 2012-2019. This population criterion is based on considerations that manufacturing companies listed on Tadawul have publicly accessible data and they have greater obligations to implement corporate governance code. Using the complementary hypothesis, this study predicts that there is a positive relationship between the ownership of government-controlled companies and audit committee effectiveness. The Pooled OLS regression shows that government-controlled companies' ownership is positively associated with audit committee effectiveness. Our study also indicates that ownership of government-controlled companies as a governance monitoring mechanism becomes more effective as it is combined with audit committee effectiveness which is another governance monitoring mechanism. The results of this study provide insightful evidence to policymakers at the company and country levels on the relationship of government-corporate ownership and audit committee effectiveness.

Entrenchment Effect and Audit Quality in Family Business of Pakistan

  • TAHIR, Safdar Husain;AKRAM, Sadaf;PERVEEN, Shahida;AHMAD, Gulzar;ULLAH, Muhammad Rizwan
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.8
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    • pp.95-102
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to test both the alignment theory and entertainment theory on family firms listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. To achieve these goals, we collected secondary data from 164 non-financial family firms in various sectors during 2014-18. These family firms are classified into two categories: family control firms and family owned firms. We take the audit fee and the audit quality as dependent variables while family control firms, family-owned firms, and family CEOs as independent variables. In addition, the study uses leverage, profit and export as control variables. To test the effect of the explanatory variables on the output variables, we use two econometric models, Ordinary Least Square and the Probit regression model. In addition, Huber Sandwich test is used to check the non-normality and heteroscedasticity of panel data. Contrary to the alignment effect, the study supports the entrenchment effect and advocates that family-controlled firms as well as family-owned firms are not conscientious regarding the selection of external auditors during their contracts with audit firms. They are less likely to pay high audit fees for good quality audit in Pakistan. Furthermore, the study shows a statistically significant and positive relationship between audit quality and audit fees.

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.

A Study on the Development of Performance Audit Model Using the System Dynamics (시스템다이내믹스 기법을 이용한 공공정책 성과감사 모형개발에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Nam-Hee
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.25-46
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    • 2011
  • Recently, performance auditing system of governmen is carried out as most promising framework of government audit. Performance audit by the Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea involves assessing the causes and effects of government policies, programs, and Institutions with the criteria of economy, efficiency, effectiveness. Performance auditing will contribute to strengthening the values of objective assessments of whether public resources are responsibly and effectively managed to achieve intended results. Nevertheless, there seems to be a problems appears in implementation of audit. That is the problems of tendency return to legitimacy audit which is result from the lack of strong approach and methodology. So, this study purpose to developing stronger audit concepts and methods that add to the process and framework of traditional performance auditing system. First, this study evaluates the limitation of current performance auditing system with the perspective of systems thinking. Second, this study analyzes the process and method of current system and develop the conceptual model of the Dynamics Audit System using the system dynamics methodology, which focused on the appropriate auditing process and framework.

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A Study on Audit Planning and Evaluation System of Local Finance (지방재정의 감사기획평가체계 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Hun
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.37-53
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    • 2014
  • Audits by local governments help to improve local governments's internal control, diagnose their policies, increase their administrative performance and prevent any Policy errors. But the specialty level of the self-authority audit & inspection is low level. It comes from frequent job rotations which results in disposition of unskilled employees instead of ones having majoring knowledge and practical experience. In order to overcome the aforementioned problems and strengthen the function of the self-audit in local governments, we suggested a new system as a solution by considering various audit environments. This study is to find the problems of local Audit and suggest the new system of self audit evaluation system. Electronic self-authority and inspection system is strengthen the self-authority audit & inspection and ultimately will be making strength the effectiveness of local government performance.

A Design and Implementation of Information Security Management and Audit System for Government Agencies (공공기관의 정보보호관리체계 감사시스템의 설계 및 구현)

  • Jun, Yong-Joon;Cho, Gi-Hwan;Kim, Won-Kyu
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.81-93
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    • 2006
  • Recently, information technology is considered as a basement of management for industries as well as administrations. Especially, government agencies deal with more high sensitive and Important data than other businesses, so, their security managements should be fair and efficient. At present, most government agencies possess and operate their own information security systems, but apply them for the sake of formality only, even do not adapt an audit system for management polices. This paper presents a design and implementation of an automated audit system which is suitable for the operation environment in government agencies, using the audit system based on the BS7799. The. proposed system aims to objectively, numerically and daily control the ISMS (Information Security Management System) for different level of government agencies. In addition, it permits to design and implement an adaptive audit tool, in order to meet a given condition of audit organization and guard the personal relationship between the auditor and its counterpart.

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Case Studies of HVAC System through Energy audit (공조시스템의 에너지진단 사례)

  • Kim, Doo-Sung;Kim, Chun-Yong;Um, Chul-Jun;Song, Euy
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.66-71
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    • 2008
  • Energy audit was started in 2006 that Korea Government Policy for Energy saving. Who used over 2,000toe/yr(tons of oil equivalent) energy consumption has to perform Energy audit program of obligation every five years with auditing company. HANMI C&E as a company authorized by Government has diagnosed various type building. It shows four case studies of HVAC system in office building through Energy audit. This studies present efficient recommendation method for improving system performance.

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A Study on the Status of the Creation Organization of Records: A Quantitative Analysis of Joint Local Government Audit (처리과 기록물관리 현황 연구: 지자체 정부합동감사의 정량적 분석을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Hye Young;Youn, Eun-Ha
    • Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.147-167
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    • 2020
  • This study analyzes the current status of records management in the creation organization of records identified in the joint government audit from 2010 to 2019. Various methods for quantitative analysis were conducted on 43 audit results from 15 local governments to identify problems in each area of records management for the creation organization of records. In particular, the problems were identified through an analysis of the problems in records management by year. Furthermore, implications in processing and records management were also derived through the identification of the problems in such areas and the relationships with the officer in charge of records management.

The Study on the Construction of the Continuous Preventive Audit System for the Military Organization (군 조직의 상시 예방 감사시스템 구축방안 연구)

  • Hak-San No;Seung-Hyun Kim;Sang-Hyuk Park
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.204-215
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: In this study, it was proposed a plan to build the Continuous Preventive Audit System in the military Organization with the expectation that we will develop an efficient audit method under the rapidly changing audit and work environment in the future. Method: it was examined the realities and problems of the military self-audit, the cases of the Continuous Preventive Audit System currently being used by government departments and institutions and internal control inspection of the information system of the Foreign Audit Office. Result: Government departments, agencies, and foreign auditors have established a Continuous Preventive Audit System to overcome the problems and limitations of their own audits, ensuring accounting accident prevention and audit work efficiency and are focused on auditing internal controls of information systems. Conclusion: In the future, more specific studies on the design of detailed scenarios for each function of defense work and the research and analysis on the improvement of defense information system should be followed for the establishment and settlement of a more specific Continuous Preventive Audit System.

Institutional Constraints and Actors' Choice in Government Examination System (정부 회계검사 제도의 제도적 제약과 행위자의 선택)

  • Lim, Dong-Wan
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.15 no.12
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    • pp.193-203
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    • 2015
  • This study aims to analyze why South Korea has not used audit system but examination system and suggest policy reform for the system on the institutional context perspective. Institutional context is structured down to institutional legacy, motives, institutional constraints, actors' roles, and changed institution. I researched the literature on the subject and collected research materials from the Department of the Treasury and Audit Office website of New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, United States and South Korea. These were analyzed using for suggesting realistic and effective policy. Analysis showed that South Korea has used examination system due to institutional constraints and tried to increase reliability of financial statements by enlarging the meaning of examination, strengthening the ability of the Board of Audit and Inspection, enacting government examination standards, and making a comprehensive public announcement. Comparing with other countries where government audit systems are applied, there are still some vulnerable points in South Korea. In order to make up for the shortcomings, this study suggests several points: strengthening the ability of actors; systemizing internal control; expressing opinion; making a more comprehensive public announcement. It would be desirable for making further detailed studies of the points.