Audit committee quality and key audit matters in extended audit report

• Main Authors: Kuan-Tung Tung, 董冠彤
• Other Authors: 張謙恆
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kzzu96

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 會計學系碩士班 === 106 === The investors have lost their confidences in financial statements resulted from several financial statement fraud since the global financial crisis in 2008, they started to expecting higher quality of audit reports to provide more relevant and transparent audit information. The government of United Kingdom proposed the extended audit report referred to the International Auditing Standards ISA700 in 2012, which the biggest change is the Key Audit Matters (KAM), this extended audit report had implemented in Taiwan since 2016. The implementation of extended audit report must be coordinated with good corporate governance. In Taiwan, the relevant regulations of audit committee system had introduced in order to strengthen supervision over corporate governance and improve the quality of earnings disclosure. Therefore, we used the size and the frequency of audit committee, the actual attendance rate of audit committee members, the accounting expertise of audit committee members, and the term of the members in audit committee as proxy variables of the quality of the audit committee, and discuss the relevance of key audit matters and the quality of the audit committee. This paper examines the relationship between the KAM and the quality of the audit committee and uses the sample of companies listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange and the Over-the-counter market in 2016. The empirical results show that higher actual attendance rate and accounting expertise of audit committee members are significantly positively related to the numbers of the key audit matters disclosed. In addition, the longer tenure of audit committee member is significantly positively related to the industrial key audit matters.