연결감사품질의 결정요인에 관한 연구

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This paper investigates the determinants of audit quality of consolidated financial statements. Given that International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) will be introduced to Korea starting from year 2011 and IFRS mandate the use of consolidated financial statements, it would be very important to examine the audit quality of the consolidated financial statements. Up to now, there has been no research at all in Korea which investigates this issue because not consolidated but non-consolidated (i.e., individual) financial statements have been used as primary financial statements. The audit quality is a very important issue in Korean situation which tries hard to enhance corporate transparency and, thus, attracts more local and foreign investments into capital market.This study makes two predictions on the determinants of the audit quality of consolidated financial statements. First, in audit work for consolidated financial statements, the parent company’s auditor may be different from subsidiaries’auditors. In such a case, the auditor of parent company needs to depend on the audits of subsidiary companies performed by another auditors in order to consolidate the financial statements of subsidiaries into those of parent company. In such a case, efficient and effective communications between them could be more difficult. Thus, it might be less expected that information sharing and knowledge spillover occurs during the audit procedures if several different auditors are related to the audit of subsidiary companies. As a results, we expect that the more dependence on other auditors decreases the audit quality of consolidated financial statements.Second, consolidated financial statements represent the parent company and its subsidiaries as one economic entity and, therefore, the complexity of consolidation itself and information asymmetry between the parent company’auditor and its subsidiaries’auditors would increase in proportion with the total number of subsidiaries or the magnitude of transactions between the parent company and subsidiaries or among subsidiaries. So, we expect that the more complexity in consolidation processes decreases the audit quality of consolidated financial statements.This paper measures the dependence on other auditors is measure by the portion of total assets (or sales) audited by other auditors and the number of other auditors. The complexity of consolidation is measured by the total number of subsidiaries or the magnitude of transactions or account receivables and account payables between the parent company and subsidiaries or among subsidiaries. Finally, we employ discretionary accruals estimated by using performance- adjusted modified Jones model (Kasznik 1999; Kothari et al. 2005) in order to proxy for the audit quality. This measure has been used in various prior studies to proxy for accounting or audit quality. This measure has relative advantage compared with other possible measure of audit quality - such as audit opinion, post audit review, or earnings restatement - because this is the only measure that can be applied to general sample of firms whereas other measures are applicable to only a few firms which could be classified into outliers among general samples. In addition, during empirical analyses, we control for the audit quality of individual financial statements in order to emphasize the determinants of consolidated financial statements. For the empirical analyses, we use 1,537 firm-year observations collected over the period from year 2002 to year 2006. These are the firm-year observations that issue both individual and consolidated financial statements and those with all the necessary data are available from KIS-Value Ⅱ database. We perform both univariate and multivariate regression analyses.Empirical results show that the dependence measures (the portion of total assets or sales which are audited by other auditors and the number of other auditors) have significantly positive coeffic

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