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Purpose: One of the ways to enhance transparency and usefulness of audit reports is to include information on key audit matters (KAMs). In this paper, based on the presented KAMs, we investigate transparency of audit reports of listed companies in Bosnia
Mirjana Hladika +2 more
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Do Financial Statement Auditors Recognise ESG-Related Aspects as Key Audit Matters? [PDF]
One of the recent trends in ESG (which stands for Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance) is an attempt to combine sustainability and financial reporting through direct references to financial statement figures (cf. the ED IFRS S1, S2, the CSRD).
Magdalena INDYK
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Has it become more readable? Empirical evidence of key matters in independent audit reports,
The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of the adoption of Brazilian Accounting Standard - Auditing Technique 701 (NBC TA 701, in its Portuguese initialism) over the readability of audit reports.
Vagner Antônio Marques +3 more
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An analysis of key audit matter disclosures in South African audit reports from 2017 to 2020
Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyse the key audit matters (KAMs) being reported in South Africa by assessing 356 Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)–listed entities’ audit reports from 2017 to 2020, which entailed 1424 audit reports and 2903 KAM ...
Dusan Ecim +2 more
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The impact of Key Audit Matters (KAMs) on financial information quality: Evidence from Lebanon [PDF]
The purpose of this study is to discover the impact of Key Audit Matters (KAMs) on financial information quality and their value for Lebanese auditors. The value creation of KAMs is determined by its financial information quality, its ability to help during investment decision and its effect on the audit expectation gap.
Joelle Matta, Khalil Feghali
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Audit partners’ gender and time variances of key audit matters
Purpose: This study aims to examine whether audit partners’ gender affects the year-to-year changes (year-to-year additions and drops) of key audit matters (KAMs) identified in the audit report.
Mollik, Abu Taher, Bepari, Md Khokan
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The impact of key audit matter (KAM) disclosure in audit reports on stakeholders’ reactions: a literature review [PDF]
This article presents a literature review of 49 empirical studies on key audit matter (KAM) disclosure in audit reports. The study involves a structured literature review on KAM disclosure based on the reactions of stakeholders. The limitations of former studies and useful recommendations for research are stressed.
Patrick Velte, Jakob Issa
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RISK FACTORS REGARDING REVENUE RECOGNITION AS KEY AUDIT MATTERS (KAM)
Revenue is known to be one of the most important performance indicators of a company. Revenue recognition policy involves a high level of management judgment and, not infrequently, management may feel some pressure to achieve the planned results. Based on these issues, it is found that revenue recognition is a key audit issue frequently encountered in ...
Maria GROSU +1 more
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Purpose: In this study the authors examine the nature and contents of key audit matters (KAMs), and the consequences of KAMs reporting on audit quality in the context of a developing country, Bangladesh.
Nahar, Shamsun +7 more
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AbstractThis paper examines whether the readability (and hence informative value) of key audit matters (KAM) varies according to the audit firm and the KAM type disclosed, a question of vital importance for stakeholders, whose effective decision‐making depends on the quality of information received.
Nicolás Gambetta +3 more
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