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Are Audits of Financial Statements Born Unequal?

Asian Business Research

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Title Are Audits of Financial Statements Born Unequal?
 
Creator Tran, Manh Dung
Doan, Van Anh
Bui, Thi Thuy
Nguyen, Manh Cuong
 
Description Audit is getting more and more importance in assuring the reliability of financial information including financial statements for all parties. Commonly, quality of an audit is viewed as probability that financial reports are free from material irregularities. In the previous literature, there is a positive relationship between size of audit firm and audit quality that has long been understood. This has resulted in many publications to gather evidence of differential audit quality relating to audit firm size. In consequence, the conclusion has been focused that bigger audit firms produce higher audit quality than smaller ones. However, the collapse of many big international audit firms, typically Arthur Andersen has reduced the statement that large audit firms have higher audit quality than small ones. Therefore, this study looks into audit quality basing on the extent of compliance with disclosure requirements pertaining to goodwill impairment of large listed firms in Hong Kong context in the second year transition to IFRS. We found that audit firm identity appears to be a substantial variation, in which compliance levels changed significantly among auditors in the context of Hong Kong.
 
Publisher July Press Pte. Ltd.
 
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Date 2017-11-03
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.julypress.com/index.php/abr/article/view/209
10.20849/abr.v2i3.209
 
Source Asian Business Research; Vol 2, No 3 (2017); p16
2424-8983
2424-8479
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journal.julypress.com/index.php/abr/article/view/209/177
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2017 Manh Dung Tran, Van Anh Doan, Thi Thuy Bui, Manh Cuong Nguyen
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