題目: Auditor Skill Demands and Audit Quality: Evidence from Job Postings

報(bào)告人：香港城市大學(xué)商學(xué)院會(huì)計(jì)系 王文峰 助理教授

時(shí)間：2020年10月29日10:00 – 12:00

地點(diǎn)：bwin必贏唯一官網(wǎng)315室

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報(bào)告摘要：

Using a novel dataset of online job postings by accounting firms, this study empirically examines audit offices’ skill preferences and whether they relate to audit quality. Consistent with prior work in labor economics, we find the demand for cognitive, social, and technology-related skills has increased over our sample period of 2007-2017. We also find substantial variation in the demand for these skills not only across audit firms, but also across offices within an audit firm, suggesting that audit offices are not homogeneous in their demand for auditor skills. Among the three skills, we find the demand for social skills has the strongest relation with audit quality. This association is stronger for large or industry specialist audit offices and for complex clients, suggesting the benefits of social skills are greater when effective coordination and knowledge transfer are crucial in achieving high-quality audits. Taken together, our findings suggest that an audit office’s skill preferences represent an important office attribute that can affect audit quality.

王文峰助理教授簡(jiǎn)介

王文峰，香港城市大學(xué)商學(xué)院會(huì)計(jì)系助理教授。他于美國(guó)馬里蘭大學(xué)取得會(huì)計(jì)學(xué)博士學(xué)位，目前已在國(guó)際會(huì)計(jì)學(xué)頂級(jí)期刊The Accounting Review發(fā)表學(xué)術(shù)論文。他的主要研究方向?yàn)閷徲?jì)市場(chǎng)結(jié)構(gòu)，審計(jì)質(zhì)量，以及資本市場(chǎng)信息傳遞與披露。