Auditors' perceptions on obliteration of mandatory annual audit: an empirical study

Fundamentally, an audit is important to several parties to obtain some management and financial information of a company. Indeed the issue of whether or not small companies should be audited has been addressed in many studies in the UK, Australia and some Asian countries such as Hong Kong and Singap...

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Main Authors: Salleh, Arfah, Che Rose, Raduan, Samy, Naresh Kumar, Jaafar, Shuhaimi
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Language:English
Published: EuroJournals 2008
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13333/
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Jaafar, Shuhaimi
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description Fundamentally, an audit is important to several parties to obtain some management and financial information of a company. Indeed the issue of whether or not small companies should be audited has been addressed in many studies in the UK, Australia and some Asian countries such as Hong Kong and Singapore. On contrary, there is dearth of study pertaining to audit exemption of small companies in Malaysia. Thus a research been carried out to examine the perceptions of external auditors and their readiness for exemption of annual audit requirement of small companies in Malaysia, While contributing to the body of knowledge, the findings of this research could help the regulatory bodies to gauge the perceptions of auditors of small companies towards audit exemption. Future research direction been highlighted.
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spelling upm-133332016-01-26T02:21:42Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13333/ Auditors' perceptions on obliteration of mandatory annual audit: an empirical study Salleh, Arfah Che Rose, Raduan Samy, Naresh Kumar Jaafar, Shuhaimi Fundamentally, an audit is important to several parties to obtain some management and financial information of a company. Indeed the issue of whether or not small companies should be audited has been addressed in many studies in the UK, Australia and some Asian countries such as Hong Kong and Singapore. On contrary, there is dearth of study pertaining to audit exemption of small companies in Malaysia. Thus a research been carried out to examine the perceptions of external auditors and their readiness for exemption of annual audit requirement of small companies in Malaysia, While contributing to the body of knowledge, the findings of this research could help the regulatory bodies to gauge the perceptions of auditors of small companies towards audit exemption. Future research direction been highlighted. EuroJournals 2008-03 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13333/1/Auditors%27%20perceptions%20on%20obliteration%20of%20mandatory%20annual%20audit%20an%20empirical%20study.pdf Salleh, Arfah and Che Rose, Raduan and Samy, Naresh Kumar and Jaafar, Shuhaimi (2008) Auditors' perceptions on obliteration of mandatory annual audit: an empirical study. International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 14. pp. 61-67. ISSN 1450-2887
spellingShingle Salleh, Arfah
Che Rose, Raduan
Samy, Naresh Kumar
Jaafar, Shuhaimi
Auditors' perceptions on obliteration of mandatory annual audit: an empirical study
title Auditors' perceptions on obliteration of mandatory annual audit: an empirical study
title_full Auditors' perceptions on obliteration of mandatory annual audit: an empirical study
title_fullStr Auditors' perceptions on obliteration of mandatory annual audit: an empirical study
title_full_unstemmed Auditors' perceptions on obliteration of mandatory annual audit: an empirical study
title_short Auditors' perceptions on obliteration of mandatory annual audit: an empirical study
title_sort auditors' perceptions on obliteration of mandatory annual audit: an empirical study
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13333/
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