Disclosure of tax-related critical audit matters and tax-related outcomes

被引:2
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作者
Drake, Katharine D. [1 ]
Goldman, Nathan C. [2 ,5 ]
Lusch, Stephen J. [3 ]
Schmidt, Jaime J. [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA
[2] North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC USA
[3] Texas Christian Univ, Ft Worth, TX USA
[4] Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX USA
[5] North Carolina State Univ, Poole Coll Management, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
关键词
critical audit matters; expanded audit reports; financial reporting quality; tax avoidance; tax reporting; tax-related earnings management; evitement fiscal; gestion du resultat lie a l'impot; qualite de l'information financiere; questions critiques de l'audit; rapports d'audit elabores; rapports fiscaux; EARNINGS MANAGEMENT; READABILITY; RESERVE;
D O I
10.1111/1911-3846.12920
中图分类号
F8 [财政、金融];
学科分类号
0202 ;
摘要
Given that tax-related critical audit matters (tax CAMs) were prevalent among accelerated filers (18.5% of observations) during the initial year of CAM disclosures, we examine whether an auditor's disclosure of tax CAMs is associated with variation in tax-related financial reporting quality, tax avoidance, and tax-related earnings management. Finding an association between tax CAMs and one of these tax outcomes would indicate that the new auditor reporting standard has indirectly affected investors. Examining the first year of CAM disclosures, we do not find that tax CAMs are associated with broad proxies of tax-related audit or financial reporting quality (e.g., restatements, internal control weaknesses, comment letters) or tax avoidance (e.g., effective tax rates or book-to-tax differences). We do find that tax CAMs are associated with a modest increase in tax accrual quality, an increase in the reserve for unrecognized tax benefits, and a reduction in the likelihood of tax-related earnings management. However, we do not find these tax CAM effects persist into the second year of CAM reporting. Our evidence is consistent with tax CAM disclosures having a modest but short-lived effect on companies' reporting of tax accounts. Our findings should inform the PCAOB as they conduct their post-implementation review of the new audit reporting standard. La divulgation des questions critiques de l'audit et des resultats lies a l'impotLes auteurs se penchent sur les questions critiques de l'audit liees a l'impot (QCA fiscales), recurrentes chez les deposants utilisant le processus accelere (representant 18,5 % des observations), lors de la premiere annee de divulgation des QCA. Ils examinent si l'information fournie par un auditeur sur les QCA fiscales est associee a une variation de la qualite de l'information financiere relative a l'impot, a l'evitement fiscal et a la gestion du resultat lie a l'impot. Un lien entre les QCA fiscales et l'un de ces resultats fiscaux indiquerait que la nouvelle norme de rapport d'audit a eu un effet indirect sur les investisseurs. En examinant la premiere annee de divulgation des QCA, les auteurs ne trouvent pas de lien entre les QCA fiscales et les indicateurs a large echelle de la qualite de l'audit ou de l'information financiere relative a l'impot (tels que les retraitements, les faiblesses du controle interne ou les lettres de commentaire), ni avec l'evitement fiscal (par exemple les taux d'imposition effectifs ou les ecarts entre les valeurs fiscales et les valeurs comptables). Toutefois, ils trouvent un lien entre les QCA fiscales et une legere amelioration de la qualite des documents comptables, une augmentation de la reserve calculee en fonction des avantages fiscaux incertains et la reduction de la probabilite de la gestion du resultat lie a l'impot. Cependant, ils n'observent pas que les effets lies aux QCA fiscales persistent lors de la deuxieme annee de divulgation des QCA. Les donnees recueillies par les auteurs indiquent que les divulgations des QCA fiscales ont un effet modeste, mais temporaire sur les rapports fiscaux des entreprises. Ces resultats devraient informer la Commission de surveillance de la comptabilite des societes cotees en bourse lors de son examen de suivi des nouvelles normes de rapport d'audit.
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页码:719 / 747
页数:29
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