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	自愿性内部控制审计是否增加了企业的审计负担?; Has Voluntary Internal Control Audit Increased the Audit Burden of Corporate?
	张国清 ; 夏立军
	2013-05-15
关键词	自愿性内部控制审计 内部控制审计意见 审计负担与审计费用 审计风险模型 voluntary audit on internal control opinion of internal control audit audit burden and audit fees audit risk model
英文摘要	本文基于我国自愿性内部控制审计制度背景,对自愿性内部控制审计是否增加企业的审计负担这一问题进行了实证研究。研究发现,进行内部控制审计公司的审计费用,并没有比未进行内部控制审计公司的审计费用更高;首次进行内部控制审计的公司,审计费用年均增长18.3%,但这种增长并非由内部控制审计引起;第二、三次或更多次进行内部控制审计的公司,非连续进行内部控制审计的公司审计费用都比前一年度显著增长。但是,在控制了审计费用的其他影响因素之后,不会显著地影响审计费用;在控制了影响审计费用的其他因素之后,与未进行内部控制审计的公司相比,首次执行内部控制审计公司的审计费用没有更高,第二、三次或更多次执行内部控制审计公司的审计费用没有更低,非连续进行内部控制审计的公司审计费用没有更低,审计费用可能具有粘性;自愿性内部控制审计意见的类型不会显著影响公司审计收费。总之内部控制审计一般不会增加企业的审计负担。研究结果有益于评价内部控制审计的成本效益性及其制度变迁效应。; In the era of post-SOX,the internal control system is regarded as one kind of important corporate governance mechanisms and risk management tools.According to the arrangement of Minister of Finance and the other four ministers of People's Republic of China,the main-board listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange will gradually carry out mandatory audit of internal control over financial reporting( ICFR) since 2011,which is similar to the USA after 2004.This institution background can provide precious opportunity to study the economic consequences of internal control audit in China.As known to all,some A-share companies have voluntarily implemented internal control audit and disclosed the opinion of internal control audit during 2007 ~ 2011.For example,from 2008 to 2011,there are respectively 316,627,875,and 941 A-share companies disclosing internal control audit report( Hu,2012).The ICFR audit of Section 404 belongs to the most contentious clause among SOX.The related studies in USA show that internal control audit has caused the companies to bear extra expensive cost and higher legal risks( Elder et.al.2009).The SEC have postponed the implement of non-accelerated smallsize companies to carry out the ICFR audit of Section 404( b) six times together,and promulgated an Act in 2010 to permanently exempt the ICFR audit of small firms.The main reason is that the small companies will undertaken specially large audit burdens during carrying out the ICFR audit( Kinney and Shepardson,2011; Dey and Sullivan, 2012).The internal control regulations are widely adopted in the world after SOX.The information on the effectiveness of ICFR is publicly available,which provides the precious chances to explore how audit pricing adjusts according to the risk of corporate internal control.For example,Raghunandan and Rama( 2006),Hoitash et al.( 2008), and Hammersley et al.( 2012) find that the disclosure of Material Weakness of internal control is positively associated with audit fees.Some studies in China( for example,Zhang and Zhu,2010; Zhang,2011; Chen,2012) have directly examined how the internal control quality affects the audit pricing,but their results are mixed.Therefore, there has grown up an urgent need for evaluating the cost-benefit of internal control audit in China,especially assessing whether the internal control audit will give rise to the growth of the audit burden.Then we can properly evaluate the institution change of Chinese internal control audit.How does the internal control audit influence audit pricing? How does the information on corporate internal control quality and control risk signaled by the audit opinion on internal control affect the behaviors of auditors? We are lack of empirical evidences on them.We investigate the internal control driver of audit pricing based on the internal control signal transferred by the internal control audit report.This paper is based on the institutional background of voluntary audit on internal control in China.It investigates that whether internal control audit will lead to the increase of the audit fees,how the first,second,third or discontinuous time of implementation of internal control audit affect the audit fees,and how the opinion types of internal control audit influence the audit fees.We choose 2412 samples which voluntarily complemented internal control audit and attained clean or modified opinion of internal control audit during 2007-2011,and 5590 control samples.Based on our empirical evidence,the audit fees for the firms voluntarily carrying out internal control audit is not higher than that for those not voluntarily complementing it,and additional internal control audit does not increase the audit burden of firms.The audit fees for the firms in our sample for the first year of implementation of internal control audit is significantly higher than corresponding fees for the just previous fiscal year,and the average growth rate is 18.3%.However,the growth of fees does not result from internal control audit,and may be a natural increase of audit fees.Compared to the just preceding fiscal year,the second,the third,and the discontinuous internal control audit notably increase the audit fees.However,after controlling the other determinants of audit fees,the second,the third,and the discontinuous internal control audit do not significantly influence audit fees.Audit fees may be sticky.The opinion of internal control audit does not significantly affect audit fees after controlling the other determinants.To sum up,under the current institution background,except for the first audit,internal control audit does not generally increase the audit burden of corporate.In addition,we find that the listed companies rarely disclosed internal control deficiencies and modified opinion of internal control audit.Our research contributes to the evaluation of the cost-benefit of internal control audit and the effects of institution change,and provides incremental information for varied market participants.The audit fees are the significant component of implementing costs of internal control audit,so the paper enriches the understanding the compliance costs of Chinese internal control regulations.; 国家自然科学基金项目“自愿性内部控制审计的动因和经济后果研究:基于代理理论和信号传递理论的经验证据”(71002045); 福建省社会科学基金项目“多个终极大股东、产权组合与资源配置效应”(2011B211); 福建省软科学研究科技项目“生态文明导向的环境信息披露管制研究:以福建省上市公司为例”(2012R0072)
语种	zh_CN
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://dspace.xmu.edu.cn/handle/2288/103050]
专题	管理学院－已发表论文
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	张国清,夏立军. 自愿性内部控制审计是否增加了企业的审计负担?, Has Voluntary Internal Control Audit Increased the Audit Burden of Corporate?[J],2013.
APA	张国清,&夏立军.(2013).自愿性内部控制审计是否增加了企业的审计负担?..
MLA	张国清,et al."自愿性内部控制审计是否增加了企业的审计负担?".(2013).

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