Auditing Quality

This scientific research aims to investigate the role of reinforcing or limiting the factors affecting fraud-based behavior in companies with opportunistic tendencies on companies' financial decisions. Opportunistic tendencies provide the context for directing many financial decisions to protect the interests of particular groups. On the other hand, the intervention of some internal and external factors limits the possibility of taking advantage of such opportunities or provides the conditions for their use. Studying the subject of fraud and its effects on financial management is crucial, notably with a systematic approach, implying this study's applied objective. Based on the provided comprehensive model, According to the comprehensive model, the present study is intended to explain the current situation in relation to the role and importance of three categories of trust factors, audit quality and political communication on the process of influencing fraudulent behavior on financial decisions such as profit management, risk management, capital structure and The ownership structure of companies has been discussed with the aim of controlling the effective factors in this field. This research is applied in terms of objective. It draws upon a descriptive and survey methodology. The statistical population contains managers, financial experts, and professionals from companies listed on Tehran Stock Exchange. A sample of 348 individuals was selected, and the collected data was analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and the PLS-Smart software package. Findings suggest that fraud significantly affects financial decisions, demonstrating the significant role of trust in mediating between fraud and financial decisions. The Sobel test confirms this role. The research also confirms that the mediating role of political relations and auditing quality in the relationship between fraud and financial decisions is significant in this model.

Introduction: Audit quality is one of the most important issues in the field of auditing and capital market. In order to know the factors that determine the audit quality, the conducted researches confirm that compliance with ethics by auditors is one of the important and influencing variables on audit quality. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to explore the relationship between auditors' ethical disengagement and audit quality. Material & Methods: According to its nature, the present research is applied research, and in terms of method, it is among descriptive-correlational research. Its statistical population consists of auditors working in audit institutions, and 185 people have been selected among them as an in access sample. The data collection tool is a questionnaire. The collected data were summarized by Excel software and analyzed using SPSS software through multivariate regression. Results: The results of this research show that there is moral disengagement among auditors and it has a significant and negative relationship with the auditor's understanding of audit quality. In other words, with the increase of moral disengagement in the auditors, the audit quality also decreases. Conclusion: Audit quality is affected by factors and behavioral characteristics, including auditor's moral disengagement. The rule of ethics in the auditing profession can strengthen individual ethics in auditors, and this ultimately increases the quality of auditing.