EFEITO DA QUALIDADE DA AUDITORIA E DOS VALORES CONTÁBEIS NO GERENCIAMENTO DE RESULTADOS

Authors

  • Marcia Martins Mendes De Luca Universidade Federal do Ceará https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9995-5637
  • Alan Diógenes Góis
  • Gerlando Augusto Sampaio Franco Lima University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Jislene Trindade Medeiros Universidade Federal do Ceará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22561/cvr.v33i1.6349

Keywords:

Audit quality, Accounting values, Earnings management, Discretionary accruals

Abstract

Considerando que a cultura nacional afeta as instituições do país e, indiretamente, os custos de transação, registros contábeis e a qualidade de auditoria, o objetivo deste estudo é avaliar o efeito moderador dos valores contábeis na relação entre a qualidade da auditoria e o gerenciamento de resultados em uma amostra de 45.216 empresas (374.690 observações) de 83 países, abrangendo o período 2002-2017. A qualidade da auditoria (reputação e especialização do auditor) foi medida conforme proposto por Francis e Wang (2008), os valores contábeis (profissionalismo versus controle estatutário, uniformidade versus flexibilidade, conservadorismo versus otimismo e sigilo versus transparência) foram categorizados como em Braun e Rodriguez Jr. (2008), e o gerenciamento de resultados foi quantificado com o modelo modificado de Jones (Dechow, Sloan e Sweeney, 1995). A auditoria realizada por firmas de auditoria de alta reputação (Big 4) inibe o gerenciamento de resultados. Além disso, a interação entre a qualidade da auditoria e os valores contábeis sugere que o efeito positivo da qualidade da auditoria na qualidade dos lucros é mais forte quanto maior for o nível de profissionalismo, flexibilidade, otimismo e transparência do país. Os resultados confirmam que os fatores institucionais, representados neste estudo pelos valores contábeis, são de fato valores relevantes para a qualidade da auditoria.

Author Biographies

Marcia Martins Mendes De Luca, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Doutora em Controladoria e Contabilidade pela Universidade de São Paulo. Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC

Alan Diógenes Góis

Doutor em Controladoria e Contabilidade pela Universidade de São Paulo.

Gerlando Augusto Sampaio Franco Lima, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Doutor em Controladoria e Contabilidade pela Universidade de São Paulo. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – UIUC

Jislene Trindade Medeiros, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Doutoranda em Administração e Controladoria pela Universidade Federal do Ceará. Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC.

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2022-04-30

How to Cite

DE LUCA, M. M. M.; GÓIS, A. D.; LIMA, G. A. S. F.; MEDEIROS, J. T. EFEITO DA QUALIDADE DA AUDITORIA E DOS VALORES CONTÁBEIS NO GERENCIAMENTO DE RESULTADOS. Contabilidade Vista & Revista, [S. l.], v. 33, n. 1, p. 94–114, 2022. DOI: 10.22561/cvr.v33i1.6349. Disponível em: https://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/contabilidadevistaerevista/article/view/6349. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.

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