内部控制鉴证报告的信号失灵和甄别——一个本土化的实证研究

本文从内部控制的三个关键点——内部控制实施、评价和审计师鉴证——分析了内部控制鉴证报告的信号失灵原因和甄别工具,采用我国上市公司数据进行检验并发现,公司披露鉴证报告与否和会计信息质量无关,但披露高质量(声誉)审计师签署的鉴证报告,公司的操控性应计更低,会计信息质量更高。研究结果表明,内部控制鉴证报告作为传递内部控制信息的二次信号是失灵的,而审计师质量具有信号甄别的作用。本文结论不仅有助于公司制定有效的内部控制信息披露策略,还为内部控制信息市场的监管导向决策提供依据。

Audit Report on Internal Control:The Dishonest Signal and Its Discrimination:A Contextualizing Research

The disclosure of internal control information has been drawing more and more attention to scholars and enterprises since the promulgation of SOX in 2002.A rich body of researches based their designs on an assumption that companies have more reliable accounting if they disclose the audit reports on internal control(ARICs).This paper,however,argues that the ARICs are not always reliable because auditors have the motivations and opportunities to cheat in ARICs in Chinese disclosure and audit environment.We hy...