the main purpose of this paper is survy of factors associated with reliance of external auditors on entenal adutors work , reliance on internal auditors work has significant influence on cost saving and obtaining more services to client with the same cost. optimal utilization of internal audit work can improve both the efficiency and the effectiveness of external audits and can enhance the valu...

An information usefulness approach to decision making points out that only the information is regarded as useful that will bring valuable messages to investors and lead to stock price adjustments. This study examines the effectiveness of audit committees in improving earnings quality and informativeness, particularly among family-owned firms. Earnings informativeness was measured through the re...

Independence (in fact as well as in appearance) is widely thought to be necessary for the quality of audits, and audit quality is often equated with independence. Private incentives to demand (and supply) independent certification of financial statements are thought to be insufficient, thus the need to mandate independence through regulation. This study presents data from a field experiment on ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural pattern of the effect of corporate governance mechanisms (internal organization) on audit quality considering the role of the intermediary variable of behavioural components of auditors. The statistical population of this research is independent auditors and auditors working in audit firms. A sample of 395 people was selected by simple...

This paper examines the association between audit fees and attributes of internal (IA), committee (AC), as measured by independence financial expertise, well characteristics firm. The determinants have been extensively investigated in prior literature, but results are conflicting. We develop a comprehensive model from multi-country multi-industry perspective. A total 3,136 companies covering pe...

This study was aimed to present a model for social responsibility of audit firms using the grounded theory method. To this end, the components and dimensions of social responsibility model of audit firms were identified and explained. The research method was applied in terms of purpose, mixed (qualitative-quantitative)exploratoryin termsof datatype, anddescriptive-correlationalinterms of data c...