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Auditing the auditors: the audit oversight board and regulating audit quality in Malaysia


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Ismail, Hashanah and Mustapha, Mazlina (2015) Auditing the auditors: the audit oversight board and regulating audit quality in Malaysia. Journal of Modern Accounting and Auditing, 11 (3). pp. 138-142. ISSN 1548-6583

Abstract

The setting-up of the Malaysian Audit Oversight Board (AOB) in 2010 under the Securities Commission Amendment Act 2010 has extended the role of regulators into the statutory audit domain for public listed companies. Although the auditing profession in Malaysia has International Auditing Standards as prescribed minimum level of quality in the delivery of audit assurance services, self-regulation by the profession alone appears inadequate to ensure the delivery of quality audit services. With co-regulation, auditors now are monitored not just by the profession but also by a new statutory body with considerable regulatory powers to sanction auditors where quality of the audit process has been found wanting. This study solicits the opinions of auditors on their expectations of what the new regulator can achieve. Based on interviews with a sample of 30 auditors, the study finds that the majority believe that audit quality will be taken to a new level following AOB’s remit of registration of auditors, compliance inspection with International Standard on Quality Control (ISQC), monitoring of financial statement quality, and its power of sanctions. A review of AOB’s early years’ inspection confirms these expectations.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Economics and Management
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.17265/1548-6583/2015.03.002
Publisher: David Publishing Company
Keywords: Auditing; Statutory audit; International Standard on Quality Control (ISQC); Auditing standards; Audit Oversight Board (AOB); Audit regulation
Depositing User: Mohd Hafiz Che Mahasan
Date Deposited: 27 Oct 2016 04:30
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2016 04:30
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43894
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