The main objective of this study is to construct a model based on financial and non-financial variables to identify factors affecting audit opinions. To examine the usefulness of financial and non-financial variables in distinguishing between firms with an unqualified audit opinion and firms with an adverse audit opinion, the relationship that exists between independent variables and the type of audit opinion is investigated through logit model. The findings of empirical analysis shed light on the relationship between firm specific factors and the type of audit opinion. The results of logit analysis suggest that an unqualified audit opinion is issued for firms that have a higher liquidity, profitability, operational efficiency, growth rate, percentage of outside board members and low debt to total asset ratio. The results of empirical analysis demonstrate that financial and non-financial variables can be significantly useful in distinguishing between firms with an unqualified audit opinion and firms with an adverse audit opinion. Additionally, the inclusion of non-financial variables, age and the percentage of outside board members, significantly improves the performance of empirical model. Keywords: Audit opinion, Financial and non-financial variables, Going- concern assumptionJEL: M40, M41
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A b s t r a c tEarnings management is one of the controversial issues in the current business environment. The value relevance of earnings is adversely influenced by earnings management. The objective of this study is to analyze the association between audit quality and earnings management for non-financial firms quoted on Borsa Istanbul. Ordinary least square regression analysis is employed in this study in analyzing the association between earnings management and audit quality. Three different proxies for audit quality (auditor independence, audit industry specialization and auditor tenure) were analyzed based on a sample of 97 nonfinancial firms quoted on Borsa Istanbul from 2013 to 2018. Empirical analysis indicates that auditor independence and audit industry specialization are significantly negatively related with likelihood of earnings management and long-term auditor and client relationship enables the management of firms to more actively engage in earnings management. This paper finds support for the notion that the high-quality audit is one of the prominent factors that can mitigate earnings management practices.Kazanç yönetimi iş dünyasında en fazla tartışılan konular arasındadır. Kazançların değer ilgililiği kazanç yönetiminden olumsuz olarak etkilenmektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, denetim kalitesi ve kazanç yönetimi arasındaki ilişkiyi Borsa İstanbul'a kote olan şirketler açısından analiz etmektir. Denetim kalitesi ve kazanç yönetimi arasındaki ilişki sıradan en küçük kareler yöntemi kullanılarak analiz edilmektedir. 2013-2018 yıllarını kapsayan ve Borsa İstanbul'a kote olan 97 reel sektör firmasının verilerinden yararlanarak denetim kalitesinin üç göstergesi (denetçi bağımsızlığı, denetçinin sektörel uzmanlığı ve denetim firmasının müşteri firmaya hizmet süresi) sıradan en küçük kareler yöntemi kullanılarak analiz edilmektedir. Sıradan en küçük kareler yönteminin sonuçlarına göre; denetçi bağımsızlığı ve denetçinin sektörel uzmanlığı kazanç yönetimini önemli derecede azaltmaktadır ve denetim firması ile müşteri firma arasındaki uzun süreli ilişki, müşteri firmanın daha yoğun bir şekilde kazanç yönetimini uygulamasına yol açmaktadır. Bunlara ek olarak, bağımsız denetiminin kalitesinin yüksek olması firmaların kazanç yönetimi uygulamalarını önemli derecede azaltmaktadır.
Sustainability reporting is one of the latest trends that shape corporate reporting practices in the current business climate. With the advent of globalization, firms have begun to report environmental, ethical, social responsibility and human resource policies. Non-financial information that can enhance the quality of investment decisions is disclosed in sustainability reports. This paper aims to analyze the association between sustainability reporting and corporate attributes using a sample that includes 106 firms operating in Turkey. Using pooled cross-sectional logistic regression analysis, the empirical findings reveal that firm size, profitability, leverage, board independency and industry membership are important corporate attributes affecting the decision to issue sustainability report. The empirical findings of this paper are expected to provide valuable insights regarding sustainability reporting practices for stakeholders.
This paper aims to investigate the factors affecting key audit matters disclosed by manufacturing firms listed on Borsa Istanbul for the accounting period of 2019. Data are collected from the audited financial statements of 164 manufacturing firms listed on Borsa Istanbul and Poisson regression analysis is applied to the empirical model. The results of regression analysis indicate that non-Big 4 auditors disclose more key audit matters and firm complexity considerably increases the number of key audit matters. A statistically insignificant relationship between the disclosure of key audit matters and audit opinion was found. This paper is expected to contribute to the limited literature by adding important findings on another perspective of key audit matters.
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