sox mandated audit partner rotation

... independence in appearance Keywords Mandatory audit- partner rotation; Auditor-tenure; Audit quality; Perceptions of audit quality Mandatory Audit- Partner Rotation, Audit Quality and Market Perception: ... mandatory audit- partner rotation and audit quality because they identify auditor tenure at the audit- firm level Unlike the U.S., audit reports in Taiwan contain both audit- firm names and auditpartner ... mandatory audit- partner rotation sample contains only audit- partner rotation within the same audit firm 10 The rotation requirement in Taiwan only forbids audit partners from providing audit services...

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... 1981).6 Auditor competence and independence thus are critically important to the value or perceived value of an audit. 7 Mandatory audit partner rotation and audit quality Mandatory audit partner rotation ... mandatory audit partner rotation on audit quality and perceptions of audit quality using audit data from Taiwan, where a fiveyear partner rotation became de facto mandatory in 2004 Audit reports ... mandatory partner rotation) , because some clients follow their audit partners when the partners change jobs from one audit firm to another In such a case, audit firm tenure is smaller than audit partner...

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... the audit firm or the audit partner Most of the evidence on the effects of auditor rotation on audit quality is based on audit firm rotation, although to date regulators have yet to require audit ... audit firm rotation to audit partner rotation because the costs and benefits are likely quite different In audit firm rotation, the new firm brings a new audit team, applies the (new) firm’s own audit ... “Mandatory Audit Partner Rotation and Audit Quality” 397 Simnett (2006) conclude that audit partner tenure must exceed years to adversely affect audit quality But after mandatory rotation, Taiwanese auditors...

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... between audit quality and long audit partner tenure using data from Australia for a period when audit partner rotation was not mandatory They find that audit quality declines with audit partner ... an audit partner change as mandatory audit partner rotation For example, if an audit partner “A” had audited a client in the past five consecutive years from 1999 to 2003, and was replaced by audit ... condition that audit partner rotation not be accompanied by audit firm rotation in the periods before and after MPR to avoid a potentially confounding effect of audit firm rotation on audit quality...

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... attributes of audited accounting data at the time of partner rotation with all other firm years Partner rotation is identified as a switch of audit partner without a corresponding switch of audit firm ... 5.4 Partner versus firm rotation Our focus in this paper is on the contemporaneous effects of audit partner rotation, as distinct from earlier evidence examining the effects of audit firm rotation ... focussed on the imposition of mandatory partner rotation, rather than mandatory audit firm rotation In addition to the differing costs, audit firm and audit partner changes are conceptually distinct...

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... P31 audit quality SOX accelerated lead audit partner rotation on U.S public company audits from seven to five years Further, SOX extended mandatory rotation to the engagement quality review partner ... that partner rotation has a direct and positive effect on both auditor independence and audit quality With respect to indirect effects, the model suggests that partner rotation influences partners’ ... participating partners also agree that client-specific knowledge is lost because of rotation (reducing audit quality), and that longer auditor tenures yield higher audit quality As one partner noted, ‘‘audit...

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... rotated-off audit partner is the IPO signing auditor and otherwise PtnTenr is the audit partner tenure since the IPO, i.e., the number of years for which the audit partner has served as the signing auditor ... the regulatory concern about audit partner rotation- back, this study capitalizes on the natural laboratory setting of China, a country where audit partner rotation and rotation back rules apply, ... accountants sign the published audit report, allows us to identify audit partners and their rotation status for a given client To examine the determinants of audit partner rotation- back, we test four...

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... consider the impact of mandatory audit firm rotation (SOX, Section 207) These three practices: audit partner identification, audit partner rotation, and audit firm rotation, are interrelated issues ... the audit partner is required to be identified, a factor that intertwines audit partner rotation with audit partner identification Partner identification has led to studies of the effects of rotation ... documenting benefits to auditor partner rotation Using SEC comment letter correspondences to identify U.S audit partner rotations between 2006 and 2013, we find that audit partner rotation results in...

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... between audit partners and management after the implementation of audit partner rotation H3: There is a positive association among the joint tenure of management, audit partner, and audit quality ... the increase of audit partner tenure cannot help auditors to improve their audit quality under the new tenure provision This result does not support H2   AUDIT PARTNER ROTATION, AUDIT QUALITY, ... has mandated a 7-year rotation since the 1970s, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) Section 203 has required audit partner rotation every five years since 2003 Furthermore, mandatory partner   530 AUDIT...

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... examining audit failures Such research has found that Facilitating knowledge transfer during SOX -mandated audit partner rotation significantly more failures arise from early-stage client-auditor ... to that of a Lead Partner Table provides examples of the roles of various members of an audit team As defined by the SEC, an audit partner is ‘‘a partner who is a member of the audit engagement ... between an auditor and a client have, in fact, been suggested to facilitate the audit process (Arel, Brody, & Pany, 2005) Such Facilitating knowledge transfer during SOX -mandated audit partner rotation...

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... rotation for audit partners will negatively impact audit partners’ quality of life (link A in Figure 1); hence, we hypothesize: H3: Audit partners perceive auditor rotation (and accelerated rotation ... Accelerating audit engagement partner rotation and extending cooling-off periods may accentuate this issue; hence, we expect: H1: Audit partners perceive auditor rotation (and accelerated rotation ... require initial partner rotations no earlier than calendar 2004 audits, and no later than calendar 2009 audits Our participating partners average 11 years as an audit partner Auditing: A Journal...

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... expertise An audit partner s withinindustry market share is a less reliable proxy for audit partner industry expertise under the mandatory audit partner rotation regime The audit partner s within-industry ... share reliably captures audit partner industry expertise in the voluntary partner rotation regime Mandatory audit partner rotation 127 has decoupled the link between the audit partner s within-industry ... departing partner and the new partner Mandatory partner rotation has a beneficial impact on audit quality even in the absence of mandatory audit firm rotation, can have a positive impact on audit...

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... mandatory audit firm rotation Those who oppose mandatory audit firm rotation believe that changing auditors increases the risk of an audit failure during the initial years as the new auditor acquires ... mandatory audit firm rotation may affect their perception of auditor independence How Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation May Affect Audit Assignment Staffing Our research into the effects of mandatory audit ... Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation May Affect Public Accounting Firms’ Investment in Audit Tools Opponents of mandatory audit firm rotation expressed concern that limited audit tenure under mandatory rotation...

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... requirement to obtain an audit, such as joint audits or a requirement for the audit committee to solicit bids on the audit after a certain number of years with the same auditor? Could audit committee ... final argument you will hear against the rotation of audit firms is that they already an internal rotation of audit partners on the companies they audit But once a firm has issued a report on the ... mandatory audit firm rotation. "62/ According to the GAO's survey, 79% of larger audit firms and Fortune 1000 companies that responded believed that changing audit firms increases the risk of an audit...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:20

... with audit partner tenure and that audit firm tenure decreases with earnings quality after controlling for audit partner tenure Keywords: Audit partner tenure; Audit firm tenure; Auditor rotation; ... relation between audit partner tenure and earnings quality is important for audit firms when audit partner rotation is voluntary Even if audit partner rotation is mandatory, audit firms may be ... unwarranted to replace the current practice of audit partner rotation by audit firm rotation or to require audit firm rotation in addition to audit partner rotation The rest of the paper is organized...

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... the audit function This paper examines this suggestion In general, there are two types of auditor rotation: audit partner rotation and audit firm rotation Since the SOX Act has already enforced audit partner ... threat to auditor independence The potential impairment of auditor independence constitutes the basic reason for requiring audit partner and/or audit firm rotation In addition, new auditors, an ... enforced audit partner rotation in section 203 but merely calls for the study of audit firm rotation, this paper focuses on audit firm rotation For simplicity, in this article, “mandatory rotation ...

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... engagement partner in the audit report – that the disclosure of the engagement audit partner could provide useful information to investors Keywords: Audit partner experience; Auditor rotation; ... pre-listing audit partner tenure and the latter post-listing audit partner tenure We define pre-listing audit firm tenure and post-listing audit firm tenure similarly Our postlisting audit partner ... of audit partner tenure because audit partner identity is not publicly available in the U.S Several studies in international settings consider the joint effects of audit firm tenure and audit partner...

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... rather than audit partner tenure This is perhaps due to the lack of data on partner tenure Many countries not disclose the audit partner s name Moreover, in countries where audit partner rotation ... that: H3: Auditors perceive auditor rotation to have a positive impact on auditors’ independence, and hence on audit quality Auditors’ Specialization Auditors’ specialization refers to auditors’ ... inspect and review auditors’ work and to assess auditors’ independence and compliance with auditing standards (EFSA, 2012) In Egypt, neither audit firm rotation nor audit partner rotation is mandatory...

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... CHAPTER Rotation rule and auditor independence 29 CHAPTER Rotation rule and audit quality 39 CHAPTER Rotation rule and audit costs 41 CHAPTER Rotation rule and audit market competition 43 CHAPTER Rotation ... databases and journals we searched the keyword AUDIT ROTATION or others like: - Mandatory Audit rotation - Auditor switching - Auditor change - Tenure of audit services in the complete text Many other ... (chapter 4: auditor independence, chapter 5: quality of audit, chapter 6: cost of audit, chapter 7: audit market competition and chapter 8: reaction of the capital market to auditor rotation) and...

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