审计事务所的组织复原力--来自 COVID-19 爆发的证据

IF 3.9 Q1 BUSINESS, FINANCE
Jesper Haga, Kim Ittonen
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本文探讨了审计公司在 COVID-19 早期阶段的组织应变能力。对旅行和现场工作的意外限制给香港的审计师造成了意想不到的障碍。作者预计,组织复原力较强的审计师能够应对突发情况,并相对较快地恢复预期绩效水平。作者确定了五种有助于提高组织复原力的代用指标:审计师规模、行业专业化、多样性、与客户的地理距离以及审计新客户。作者将审计报告的及时性作为本研究的主要因变量。研究结果本研究的全样本结果表明,规模较大的审计师、行业专家以及与客户关系较密切的审计师在大流行病期间出具的审计报告更为及时。对最初发布未经审计财务报表的公司子样本进行的分析表明,行业专家和审计师与客户关系较长的公司大大减少了年终审计调整的需要。最后,作者发现,规模较大的审计师更有可能卸载客户,而行业专家则更有可能保留客户。研究局限/启示本文的研究结果表明,与认知能力、行为特征和环境条件相关的审计师事务所特征与审计师事务所的组织复原力有关,因此有助于审计师应对审计环境中的意外变化。实践意义本文的研究结果对参与审计事务所管理或审计师聘用和留任决策的人员具有参考价值。原创性/价值本研究首次将组织复原力与审计事务所在突发事件中的表现联系起来。作者将三个审计师维度和两个审计师-客户维度与审计公司的组织复原力联系起来。
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Organizational resilience of audit firms – evidence from the outbreak of the COVID-19
PurposeThis paper examines the organizational resilience of audit firms during the early stages of COVID-19. The unexpected restrictions placed on travel and on-site working created unanticipated barriers for auditors in Hong Kong. The authors expect that auditors with greater organizational resilience can respond to unexpected situations and restore expected performance levels relatively quickly.Design/methodology/approachThe authors utilize a sample of 1,008 companies listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) with a financial year-end of December 31. The authors identify five proxies contributing to organizational resilience: auditor size, industry specialization, diversity, geographic proximity to the client and auditing a new client. The authors use audit report timeliness as this study's main dependent variable.FindingsThis study's full-sample results suggest that larger auditors, industry specialists and auditors with closer relationships to clients issued more timely audit reports during the pandemic. The analysis of a subsample of companies that initially published unaudited financial statements reveals that industry expertise and longer auditor-client relationships significantly reduced the need for year-end audit adjustments. Finally, the authors find that larger auditors were more likely to offload clients, whereas industry specialists were more likely to retain clients.Research limitations/implicationsThe results of the paper suggests that audit firm characteristics associated cognitive abilities, behavioral characteristics and contextual conditions are associated with audit firm organizational resilience and, consequently, helps auditors respond unexpected changes in the audit environment.Practical implicationsThe findings of the paper are informative for those involved in audit firm management or auditor hiring and retention decisions.Originality/valueThis study is the first to link organizational resilience to the performance of audit firms in a time of unexpected events. The authors connect three auditor and two auditor-client dimensions to the organizational resilience of the audit firms.
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Applied Accounting Research provides a forum for the publication of high quality manuscripts concerning issues relevant to the practice of accounting in a wide variety of contexts. The journal seeks to promote a research agenda that allows academics and practitioners to work together to provide sustainable outcomes in a practice setting. The journal is keen to encourage academic research articles which develop a forum for the discussion of real, practical problems and provide the expertise to allow solutions to these problems to be formed, while also contributing to our theoretical understanding of such issues.
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