The document examines the factors that impact the quality of audits in firms. It discusses three main factors: institutional factors, non-compliance factors, and technical factors. Institutional factors include client integrity, governance structures, and internal control systems. Technical factors refer to the skills and experience of audit personnel. Weak risk awareness, lack of professional care, and insufficient experience among audit teams can negatively affect audit quality. Addressing these various human, organizational, and procedural factors is important to improve the reliability of financial statements and ensure high-quality, independent audits.
The document examines the factors that impact the quality of audits in firms. It discusses three main factors: institutional factors, non-compliance factors, and technical factors. Institutional factors include client integrity, governance structures, and internal control systems. Technical factors refer to the skills and experience of audit personnel. Weak risk awareness, lack of professional care, and insufficient experience among audit teams can negatively affect audit quality. Addressing these various human, organizational, and procedural factors is important to improve the reliability of financial statements and ensure high-quality, independent audits.
The document examines the factors that impact the quality of audits in firms. It discusses three main factors: institutional factors, non-compliance factors, and technical factors. Institutional factors include client integrity, governance structures, and internal control systems. Technical factors refer to the skills and experience of audit personnel. Weak risk awareness, lack of professional care, and insufficient experience among audit teams can negatively affect audit quality. Addressing these various human, organizational, and procedural factors is important to improve the reliability of financial statements and ensure high-quality, independent audits.
The document examines the factors that impact the quality of audits in firms. It discusses three main factors: institutional factors, non-compliance factors, and technical factors. Institutional factors include client integrity, governance structures, and internal control systems. Technical factors refer to the skills and experience of audit personnel. Weak risk awareness, lack of professional care, and insufficient experience among audit teams can negatively affect audit quality. Addressing these various human, organizational, and procedural factors is important to improve the reliability of financial statements and ensure high-quality, independent audits.
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EXAMINING THE FACTORS THAT
IMPACT THE QUALITY OF AUDIT IN FIRMS
Over the years there has been an increase in audits by the firms in order to provide more transparency on their financial statements to their shareholders and stakeholders. With the international and domestic cases of the continuous disclosures of the financial statement scandals, the independent audit process and the results of the quality issues and problems are also critical attention from all of the sectors to the society. The quality of audit is critically important in order to ensure that the information that has been presented to the users of the financial statements is true and it has met the standards of the quality. Therefore, there are numerous factors that affect the quality of audits to be the systematic analysis as well as actively explore the effective methods in order to improve the quality of audit. According to A Ghosh & D Moon (2005), the quality of audit has been the soul of the audit profession and it resembles to the important and critical interests of the public but at the same time it is also related to the steady socio economic development (Ghosh & Moon, 2005). The quality of audit affects the effectiveness of the transparency of the firm and it is growing issue for the investors of the company who relies on the quality of the audit in order to understand the performance of the company. The quality of audit also affects the confidence of the public investors as well as the capital market development maturity is also affected by the quality of the audit. According to the studies by Franzel & Jeanette (2007), it shows that there are numerous impacts of the audit quality and the following are some of the impacts of the audit quality factors; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS: NON-COMPLIANCE FACTORS: TECHNICAL FACTORS:
The study by Franzel & Jeanette (2007) reflects that the institutional factors are among the top factors that affect the quality of audit in firms and under institutional factors there are some other aspects as well, such as; According to Franzel (2007), the client integrity provides more information on the financial statements of the credibility of the relatively high, audit practice and it can be extremely effective in order to reduce the audit risk towards the quality of audit. On the other side, the devious customers, its annual statements there is an error or fraud will be more likely to occur
Smith, Janice & Russell (1997), explained another institutional factor that impact the quality of audit and it is governance structure and the internal control systems in an organization. The international standards on auditing and concerns about the management of legal frauds reflect the governance structure for the quality of the audit. First the ownership and the excessive extent on the resolution mechanisms controlling separation and its Focus on shareholders' equity, then there is collusion or predatory interests of minority shareholders only risk, equity decentralized management, then there is moral hazard. Third, the system designed to prevent fraud. Impact of anti-fraud system of corporate governance standards of financial reporting in two dimensions, so that the overall risk in the company's system, including senior management, such as silver mansions, Enron, important information in the wrong business systems to prevent high-risk significant losses, such as Barings Bank, Singapore, China Aviation Oil, French bank Societe General events The first factor is the quality of the risk awareness auditors is weak, such as in the last few years there has been number of developments in the field of auditing and there is also an increase in the audit practice by the firms. The study by Bragg & Steven (2013), shows that due to less personnel tasks some of the audit members in the firms and some of the leading audit organizations the tasks for the completion of audit are prominent and a weak awareness for audit risk quality awareness is not very high and the quality of the audit has been ignored as well as its requirements. Another factor that has been highlighted by CPA is the professional care and professionalism such as CPA defined professional care as the process of the certified public accountants which are in practice must be careful as its sole purpose is that the economy from their clients and customers the complicated business and the other important matters that has been found in different variety of clues which are found in the trail of audit especially such customers that are in the wrong place clues. Kemshall, Hazel & Bernadette (2013) are also among those factors that impacts the quality of audits in firms and the following information provides further analysis and details into technical factors; The audit quality of the personnel is not very high and it might does not meet the work requirements and the knowledge of the auditor structure from the point of view and the existing staff tends to understand the financial audit of the firm and its ability for the comprehensive analysis for the talents and the response of the audit staff is very poor and weak towards complex audit conditions and situations. This affects the quality of audit in firms as the staff is not highly capable for performing the audit on the firms. F Dobre, D Vilsanoiu & E Turlea (2012) said that team members in the audit team have the extensive practice and experience in order to perform the audit and the high experienced team will offer high quality audit. The authors said that experience of the team members is one of the key factors under technical factors that affect the quality of audit in the firms. The accounting firms finding it very difficult to safeguard their legitimate interests and rights as well as to hire the team members that are skilled and they can cope up with the quality and standards of audits of their clients This essay on examining the factors that affects the quality of audit in firms provides information about the importance and the development of audit in the recent years. This essay shows that there are three main factors that impacts upon the quality of audit and these are institutional factors, non-compliance factors and the technical factors. The quality of audit has been the growing and current issue in the field of auditing as quality is highly concerned with the financial statements is available for review to the users. The financial statements provide critical and useful information to investors in order to make investment decisions. These factors have clear impacts on the quality of audit and to improve the quality of audit in firms these factors should be minimized or eliminated.