The Impact of Control Systems on Board?s Forecast Accuracy

Tor Brunzell () and Emmanouel Parasiris ()
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Tor Brunzell: Stockholm Businss school, Stockholm University
Emmanouel Parasiris: Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University

No 4006439, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: In this paper we study what impact the control systems has on the chairperson?s five year fore-casts accuracy on net sales growth as well as the control systems effect on the chairperson?s perception on the board work. The control systems we take into account in this study are: audit committee, employee representation on the board, and reports to the board. In order to pre-vent a repetition of the early 2000 accounting scandals, countries introduced and/or updated their legislations on the audit committee and internal audit shortly after. The study is based on 2007 data when it was non-mandatory employment of internal audit using a unique sample col-lected from the Nordic countries. The results of the study suggest the employment of the inter-nal audit function by internal auditors has a positive impact on both chairpersons? ability to forecast sales growth and perception of the work of the audit committee. However, we do not find the impact for companies that use external auditors to employ the internal audit function.

Keywords: Control systems; internal auditing; internal control; audit committee; corporate governance; forecast accuracy; board of directors. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G18 G38 K22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 page
Date: 2016-08
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 24th International Academic Conference, Barcelona, Aug 2016, pages 42-42

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