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摘要
目的本文从可操纵性应计项目和审计意见两个方面考察了员工人均持续职业教育时数与审计质量之间的关系。设计/方法/方法采用几种方法来检验假设,包括普通最小二乘(OLS)和逻辑回归(logistic)。作者还采用了二最小二乘法的工具变量回归(IVREG with 2SLS)和工具变量probit模型(IVProbit)来解决可能的内禀性并加强主要估计结果的有效性。主要结果表明,员工人均CPE时数与审计质量之间存在显著的正相关关系。由于作者将CPE分为四个领域(财务,审计和会计,税收,法律和法规等),结果对于子样本“会计和审计”和“其他”更为稳健。此外,本研究的结果表明,与非四大会计师事务所相比,每名员工的CPE时间对四大会计师事务所的审计质量没有显著影响。本研究的样本量相当小,因为土耳其审计公司的透明度报告自2013年以来一直可用,作者无法达到个人层面的一些审计师人口统计数据和审计公司层面的一些属性。此外,一些替代的审计质量度量,如审计工作量、审计费用,由于没有披露而没有被采用。原创性/价值本研究对使用土耳其审计事务所的审计文献有所贡献。作者认为,土耳其的背景可能会产生有趣的结果,因为它提供的数据。
Continuing professional education and audit quality: evidence from an emerging market
PurposeIn this paper, the authors examine the association between the amount of continuing professional education (CPE) hours per staff and audit quality in terms of discretionary accruals and audit opinion.Design/methodology/approachSeveral methodologies are adopted to test the hypotheses, including the ordinary least square (OLS) and logistic regression (Logistic). The authors also employ instrument variables regression with two least square (IVREG with 2SLS) and instrument variables probit model (IVProbit) to address the possible endogeneity and strengthen the validity of the main estimation results.FindingsThe main results show that there is a positive and significant relationship between CPE hours per staff and audit quality. As the authors grouped CPE into four areas (finance, auditing and accounting, tax, law and regulations and others) the results are more robust for the sub-sample “accounting and audit” and “others”. Moreover, the findings of this study suggest that CPE hours per staff do not affect audit quality significantly for Big4 audit firms compared to non-Big4 firms.Research limitations/implicationsThe sample size of the present study is quite small because the transparency reports of the audit firms in Turkey have been available since 2013 and the authors could not reach some auditor demographics at the individual level and some attributes at the audit firm level. Besides, some alternative audit quality measures, such as audit effort, audit fees are not employed because they are not disclosed.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the audit literature using Turkish audit firms. The authors believe that the setting of Turkey may yield interesting results because of the data it provides.
期刊介绍:
Covering various fields of accounting, Asian Review of Accounting publishes research papers, commentary notes, review papers and practitioner oriented articles that address significant international issues as well as those that focus on Asia Pacific in particular.Coverage includes but is not limited to: -Financial accounting -Managerial accounting -Auditing -Taxation -Accounting information systems -Social and environmental accounting -Accounting education Perspectives or viewpoints arising from regional, national or international focus, a private or public sector information need, or a market-perspective or social and environmental perspective are greatly welcomed. Manuscripts that present viewpoints should address issues of wide interest among accounting scholars internationally and those in Asia Pacific in particular.