作者:张鸣 张奇峰
关键字:所有权结构,审计师选择,审计定价
摘要/Abstract
基于对我国上市公司选择审计师和确定审计费用的决策机制的分析,本文提出了上市公司对独立审计需求的四个假设:地方政府效应、披露制约效应、信号传递效应和监督激励效应,进而用2002年我国上市公司以及主审事务所作为样本,对四个假设进行了检验。研究发现:在控制了公司规模、业务复杂程度、财务结构、企业业绩、公司成长性、行业竞争程度以及潜在盈余管理的影响后,国际4大的选择与公司控股股东的非经营性国有控股类型显著负相关,与公司的股权集中程度显著正相关;同时公司付出的外部审计费用与公司控股股东的国有控股类型显著负相关。这与审计需求的地方政府效应、监督激励效应与信号传递效应基本一致,与审计需求的披露制约效应相悖。这为大股东在公司治理中的激励效应提供了间接证据,一股独大并不是公司治理不完善的制度根源;同时研究结果表明我国目前审计师选择和审计定价由买方主导的市场格局与上市公司的控制权安排密切相关,注册会计师行业的进一步发展有赖于企业产权改革的深化与公司治理的改善。
Based on the analysis of listed firm's external audit decision, This paper brings forth four hypotheses of the firm's demand for independent audit: the State controlling owner's local government effect and incentive insufficiency effect, auditor's signal effect and disclosure constriction effect. Using data of Year 2002 listed firms, the author tests these hypotheses and finds that the nonprofit state controlling owners are more unlikely to employ International Four auditors and pay fewer audit fees. The more the share of the largest shareholder is, the more likely the firm employs international 4 auditors. These evidences mightily support the state controlling owner's local government effect, incentive insufficiency effect and auditor's signal effect and aren't consistent with auditor's disclosure constriction effect. The author documents the largest shareholder's role in the external audit decision and argues that the diversification of ownership is playing an important role in the development of CPA industry.
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