本文从媒体这一非正式制度出发,实证考察媒体报道对管理层审计意见购买行为的影响。利用2007-2014 年中国 A 股市场数据研究发现:上市公司存在明显的审计意见购买行为,而媒体报道能有效抑制这一行为。并且,这一抑制作用仅存在于信息不...本文从媒体这一非正式制度出发,实证考察媒体报道对管理层审计意见购买行为的影响。利用2007-2014 年中国 A 股市场数据研究发现:上市公司存在明显的审计意见购买行为,而媒体报道能有效抑制这一行为。并且,这一抑制作用仅存在于信息不对称程度较高和深陷代理问题的公司,以及签字会计师审计任期较短、聘请不具行业专长和小规模事务所的公司。研究还发现,媒体报道的抑制作用在盈余管理程度较高的公司占主导,且负面报道相比非负面报道的抑制作用更强。这些结论表明,媒体在抑制我国资本市场审计意见购买机会主义行为中发挥了重要的信息效应与治理效应,研究对加强审计意见购买监管与媒体治理具有重要的现实参考意义。展开更多
The existing literature on audit opinion shopping provides inconsistent evidence on whether such shopping has any association with abnormal audit fees. In this paper, we hypothesize that firms engage in audit opinion ...The existing literature on audit opinion shopping provides inconsistent evidence on whether such shopping has any association with abnormal audit fees. In this paper, we hypothesize that firms engage in audit opinion shopping and pay an abnormal audit fee only when their degree of accounting quality is low. To examine the issue, we group firms on the basis of their change in return on assets(ROA), and show that abnormal audit fees improve audit opinions only among firms that engage local auditors and have a low degree of ROA, but report a large increase in ROA, especially when the ROA change is the result of abnormal accruals. We find no association between abnormal audit fees and audit opinion improvement for other firms.展开更多
文摘本文从媒体这一非正式制度出发,实证考察媒体报道对管理层审计意见购买行为的影响。利用2007-2014 年中国 A 股市场数据研究发现:上市公司存在明显的审计意见购买行为,而媒体报道能有效抑制这一行为。并且,这一抑制作用仅存在于信息不对称程度较高和深陷代理问题的公司,以及签字会计师审计任期较短、聘请不具行业专长和小规模事务所的公司。研究还发现,媒体报道的抑制作用在盈余管理程度较高的公司占主导,且负面报道相比非负面报道的抑制作用更强。这些结论表明,媒体在抑制我国资本市场审计意见购买机会主义行为中发挥了重要的信息效应与治理效应,研究对加强审计意见购买监管与媒体治理具有重要的现实参考意义。
文摘The existing literature on audit opinion shopping provides inconsistent evidence on whether such shopping has any association with abnormal audit fees. In this paper, we hypothesize that firms engage in audit opinion shopping and pay an abnormal audit fee only when their degree of accounting quality is low. To examine the issue, we group firms on the basis of their change in return on assets(ROA), and show that abnormal audit fees improve audit opinions only among firms that engage local auditors and have a low degree of ROA, but report a large increase in ROA, especially when the ROA change is the result of abnormal accruals. We find no association between abnormal audit fees and audit opinion improvement for other firms.
