上市公司内部控制缺陷与财务报告信息质量

企业内部控制的主要目标之一是提高财务报告信息质量,如果上市公司的内部控制存在缺陷,无论是管理层无意识的误报财务信息还是出于自身利益的目的故意操纵财务信息,都会降低财务报告的信息质量.利用 2007年～2008年中国A股上市公司财务数据,从会计稳健性、应计质量和财务信息价值相关性3个视角,考察内部控制缺陷对财务报告信息质量的影响.研究结果表明,在控制公司的经营特征和行业特征以及公司是否为国有控股和是否为ST公司后,发现存在内部控制缺陷的公司其会计稳健性和应计质量均显著低于不存在内部控制缺陷的公司,但是这两类公司财务信息价值相关性的差别并没有得到很好证实.

Internal Control Deficiencies of Listed Companies and Quality of Financial Information

One objective of the internal control over financial reporting is to improve the quality of financial reporting.If a company has weak internal control,the unintentional errors of management will reduce the reliability of financial information.In addition,managers of firms with weak internal control can more readily override the control and intentionally prepare biased financial information that facilitate meeting their opportunistic financial reporting objectives.Based on the data of China's listed companie...