Regulación frente a reputación como medio de salvaguardar la independencia de la auditoría

  • Ruiz Barbadillo, Emiliano
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Publication date
September 2016
Publisher
Centro de Estudios Financieros, SL
Language
Spanish; Castilian

Abstract

The independence is considered to be one of the most important attributes of the audit profession and the characteristic most frequent cited as a prerequisite to improve audit quality. However the preponderance of failures where the auditor’s judgment have been called into questions after important business failures, reveals that audit profession has failed to regulate itself in a manner that promotes audit independence. Despite there exist some set of factors and circumstances that have the potential to compromise independence, the implication that economic dependence have on auditor independence have long been a source of controversy in the audit literature. The implicit assumption is that auditor may be confronted with the decision to co...

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