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{"title":"CPAs perception(s) regarding the Covid-19 crisis: A questionnaire development and validation","authors":"Chytis Evangelos, Fasoulas Marios, Tasios Stergios, Nerantzidis Michail","doi":"10.5897/jat2023.0568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/jat2023.0568","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable questionnaire concerning the Certified Public Accountants’ (CPA) perception(s) regarding the Covid-19 pandemic and to provide insights into this issue. A questionnaire was developed combining the key aspects of professional guidelines, prior literature, and experts’ opinions. Our study focuses on the perceptions of Greek CPAs, ensuring the validity and reliability of the instrument used through a robust methodology incorporating techniques from classical test theory and factor analysis. The final questionnaire has 18 questions and 4 main sub-sections (Work and organizational environment, Audit planning, Field work and Audit report). All sub-sections of the questionnaire achieved an acceptable internal reliability value. Construct validity was confirmed via factor analysis. Insights from the data analysis illustrate that Work and organizational environment and Audit planning explain the greatest variance during the first wave of the pandemic in Greece. The results have important implications for CPAs, practitioners, audit firms and regulators who wish to enhance the effectiveness of the auditing profession and the quality of financial information. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that reflects the Covid-19 crisis for the perspective of CPAs. This instrument can be used, if properly modified, as a measurement tool on CPAs perceptions on future crisis.","PeriodicalId":53221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82213463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Essentialities of Cloud Accounting Information System on The Operational Efficiency of Firms In Nigeria","authors":"S. Beredugo","doi":"10.47747/jat.v3i2.1221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47747/jat.v3i2.1221","url":null,"abstract":"Novel accounting technology such as cloud accounting information system has taken the Centre stage in its presumed capacity to provide relevance online accounting and auditing solutions that are accessible from anywhere through the cloud service providers. It is no doubt that keeping pace with this accounting technology has comes with apprehension from target audiences, that have created apathy in the deployment of cloud accounting by some companies in Nigerian, due to some speculative drawbacks such as high security breaches, high cost of IT services, risk of unauthorized access and viruses among others. It is in this light, that the study firstly examined the essentialities of cloud accounting information system on the operational efficiency of firms in Nigeria and secondly evaluated if there are significant differences in the perception of respondents in deployment of cloud accounting on corporate exigencies in Nigeria. The survey research design was adopted to collect data from 385 respondents in 32 companies cutting across four sectors in Nigeria. The Chi-square and Analysis of Variance were used for the test of hypotheses and it was discovered that cloud accounting significantly enhances the operational efficiency of firms in Nigeria, while there were no significant difference in the perception of respondents in deployment of cloud accounting leading to increase in the risk of unauthorized access, weak or no access control and high cost of IT services etc. In all, the benefits of the deployment of cloud accounting outweighs the exposures and it was recommended among others that organizations should endeavour to implement substantial security measures to protect IT infrastructure through effective internal control architecture","PeriodicalId":53221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82885984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of Tax Digitalization Efforts by Federal Inland Revenue Service and their Impacts on Tax Collection 2002-2021","authors":"S. Mohammed, Abdulsalam Mas'ud, Yusuf Ibrahim Karaye, M. M. Sallau, A. Adam, Bashir Ali Sulaiman","doi":"10.47747/jat.v3i2.1138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47747/jat.v3i2.1138","url":null,"abstract":"The federating states and capital of federal republic of Nigeria are too dependent on federally collected revenues largely from oil and gas. However, taxation is indisputably the most viable and sustainable means of raising revenue for public expenditures. Therefore, the federal government can enhance its bases of taxation to generate more tax revenue for the federating units to share especially with known shocks in oil and gas revenue. Conversely, increasing number of individuals and corporate bodies that pay taxes to the federal government are making tax administration more difficult. To overcome this, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has embarked on processes of digitizing tax administration at the federal level. Consequently, the aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of the tax digitalization processes by FIRS by one, describing the digitalizations and two, by undertaking trend analyses of total tax revenue collections 2002-2021. To achieve these, secondary data is collected from the literature and publications of the FIRS while public policy analytical framework underpins the study. Results from the study revealed that there are consistencies in efforts by the FIRS to digitalize tax administration in Nigeria even though implemented in short time intervals. Similarly, on the overall, there are increasing but fluctuating trends of tax revenue collection by FIRS 2002-2021 implying the positive impacts of the current digitalization efforts.        ","PeriodicalId":53221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87726389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tax Structure Implications on Exchange Rate and Infrastructural Development in Nigeria","authors":"Ambaiowei Tari Ebiowei, A. Umobong","doi":"10.47747/jat.v3i2.1092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47747/jat.v3i2.1092","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined the relationship between tax structure and exchange rate, and capital expenditure using secondary data obtained from Central bank of Nigeria and Federal inland revenue annual bulletin for the period 1994 to 2022 using multiple regression and auto regressive distributive lag. Tax structure was divided into direct and indirect tax consisting of PPT, CIT and VAT while the dependent variable was proxied by exchange rate and capital expenditure. Unit root test for stationarity was conducted using Augmented Dickey Fuller and Kwiatkowski Phillips Schmidt Findings show that in the short run the coefficients of the tax structure variables passed the significance test at the 5 percent level indicating that tax revenues critically influence short run changes in capital expenditure. The coefficients of current PPT, current CIT and complete VAT are all positive, which show that all forms of taxes promote capital spending by government in Nigeria in the short run. Thus, increasing tax revenues will immediately deliver positive impacts on the budgetary provisions for capital spending in Nigeria. The study also found that capital expenditure improves exchange rate, the positive impact of tax revenues on short run capital expenditure confirms that taxes have significant indirect impact on short run macroeconomic performance in Nigeria. The long run results also report interesting outcomes The coefficients of the two direct tax components are significant at the 5 percent level, while that of VAT failed the test at the 5 percent level. This result shows that while PPT and CIT significantly influence capital expenditures in Nigeria, VAT has no significant impact. It also suggests that VAT does not exert indirect long run effects on macroeconomic performance through the capital expenditure channel. The coefficient of CIT is however negative, indicating that increasing CIT tends to reduce capital expenditures in Nigeria. On the other hand, the coefficient of PPT is positive which indicates that only PPT tends to directly improve capital expenditure or indirect improve long run macroeconomic performance through the channel of capital expenditure in Nigeria. The coefficient of public debt  failed the significance test in the long run estimates, while the coefficient of exchange rate is significant at the 5 percent level and also possesses a negative sign. This implies that in the long run, exchange rate depreciation tends to limit capital expenditures in Nigeria. In particular every one percent rise in CIT was found to be consistent with a 0.877 percent rise in VAT, while a percent rise in PPT is accompanied by an increase in CIT by 0.93 percentage point. The relationship was found to be strong in Nigeria and also suggests that tax revenue in Nigeria is linked. the study found that only direct taxes led to improvement in exchange rate in the long run. This implies that direct taxes may be more effective in maintaining macroeconomic stability in Nigeri","PeriodicalId":53221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77953611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Signaling, auditing fees, and earnings surprise before and after split-share structure reform in China","authors":"Hu Shaorou, Liu Chenyu, Liu Ming","doi":"10.5897/jat2023.0563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/jat2023.0563","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89416578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Influence of computer literacy levels on tax compliance among Harare central business district small and medium enterprises","authors":"Walter Nhundu, Wilson Matamande","doi":"10.5897/jat2023.0564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/jat2023.0564","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75927525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determinants of business tax compliance: A case study of Togo","authors":"Eli Soglo Koku, Amedanou Isaac","doi":"10.5897/jat2023.0559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/jat2023.0559","url":null,"abstract":"The results of a survey conducted by the Office of Togolese Revenue (OTR) in 2019, which covered 413 formal firms, show that several factors are key determinants of businesses' willingness to pay taxes. These include appreciation of tax fraud, amendment of tax laws, tax knowledge, tax beneficiaries, bribes, severity of penalties, legitimacy of customs duties, appreciation of tax amount, tax burden, legitimacy of Value Added Tax (VAT) and geographical location (Maritime, Plateaux, Centrale, Kara and Savane) of the firms. Using a probit model, the results show that all these factors are key determinants of voluntary tax compliance, except for the tax laws amendment, tax amount appreciation and the tax burden. When isolating the Maritime region, the result remains unchanged except for the fact that the appreciation of tax fraud has no significant impact on voluntary compliance in that region. Finally, the determinants vary once businesses are differentiated by size (Small, Medium and Large) nationally or regionally.","PeriodicalId":53221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80797873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Accounting classification in the era of International Financial Reporting Standards: The case of Africa","authors":"Charles Elad ,&nbsp;Neeta Shah ,&nbsp;Charles Agyeman","doi":"10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2023.100546","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2023.100546","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents the first empirical test of a hypothetical classification of financial reporting in Africa based on de facto or actual practices as opposed to de jure rules. Three multivariate techniques (principal component analysis, cluster analysis, and multidimensional scaling) were used to analyze the accounting policies of large, listed companies in Africa that are required by law to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). It was found that there is a dichotomy between the IFRS policy choices of companies in Francophone and Lusophone countries, on the one hand, and those in common law jurisdictions, on the other, thus, confirming the two-group classification schemes proposed by Elad (2015) and Nobes (1983). These findings have important policy implications, particularly in the context of recent recommendations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that large entities in Africa adopt IFRS.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":53221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45074557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Codetermination and aggressive reporting: Audit committee employee representation, tax aggressiveness, and earnings management","authors":"James A. Chyz ,&nbsp;Marc Eulerich ,&nbsp;Benjamin Fligge ,&nbsp;Miles A. Romney","doi":"10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2023.100543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2023.100543","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study uses a unique dataset from listed German companies that helps identify a granular measure of board-level codetermination to examine whether board-level codetermination (inclusion of employee representatives on the board) reduces aggressive financial and tax reporting, i.e., tax aggressiveness and earnings management. To the extent codetermination allows for effective employee monitoring of management, then it should be negatively associated with tax and financial reporting aggressiveness because prior research hypothesizes that employees prefer lower tax aggressiveness and less earnings management. Our analysis also highlights the mechanisms through which employees can monitor and influence firms’ decisions and outcomes. We find employee representation on audit committees is the most consistently influential codetermination mechanism associated with reduced tax aggressiveness and earnings management. We contribute to prior and current discussions of stronger employee rights and influences on management decisions from a board-level perspective.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":53221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50203375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"International culture and audit deficiencies: Evidence from inspection reports of non-US companies listed in the US","authors":"Robin L Knowles,&nbsp;Angel Arturo Pacheco Paredes","doi":"10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2023.100542","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2023.100542","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate an important corporate governance mechanism that provides a monitoring function to facilitate the growth and development of international capital markets. Specifically, we investigate the relationship between Hofstede’s cultural values and the audit deficiencies of non-US companies listed on US equity markets, as measured by the number of audit deficiencies found by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) from 2005 to 2017. We find evidence supporting a conclusion that audit deficiencies are lower in countries with lower <em>Uncertainty Avoidance</em> scores, higher <em>Individualism</em> scores, and lower <em>Power Distance</em> scores. We conclude that countries with cultures more accepting of ambiguity and uncertainty, having more flexible business practices, and being more tolerant of individual contributions are associated with higher quality audits, as measured by fewer audit deficiencies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":53221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41395645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}