The association between audit fees and auditors' opinions on internal control weakness under Section 404 of the Sox

• Main Authors: CHOI, Jong-Hag, KIM, Jeong-Bon, KWON, Soo Young, ZANG, Yoonseok
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• 主題: Internal Control; Audit services; Audit fees; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Corporate Finance
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1735; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2762/viewcontent/The_Association_between_Audit_Fees_and_Auditors_Opinions_on_Inte.pdf

The Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requires top management toestablish, maintain, and regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the internal controlover financial reporting (ICOFR), and obtain an auditor’s attestation. In this paper, weidentify 232 firms that received “Ineffective” audit opin...