Auditor gender, experience and reporting in nonprofit organizations

Anne-Mie Reheul, Tom Van Caneghem, Machteld Van den Bogaerd and Sandra Verbruggen

Managerial Auditing Journal, 2017, vol. 32, issue 6, 550-577

Abstract: Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between individual auditor characteristics (gender, experience and sector expertise) and audit opinions in Belgian non-profit organizations (NPOs). The purpose is to identify auditor characteristics that imply a better assurance of financial statement (FS) quality. FS quality is essential to enhance financial accountability toward the resource providers of NPOs and the public at large. Design/methodology/approach - Multinomial regressions are conducted on a data set of Belgian NPOs. Propensity score matching is used to control for potential self-selection bias. Findings - Auditors with sector expertise are found to provide better assurance than their non-sector-expert counterparts. The former are more likely to disclose FS errors and uncertainties in their audit report. Originality/value - This study contributes to the auditing literature by focusing on an understudied audit market, namely, the non-profit audit market. The number of non-profit studies that investigate determinant of audit quality is very scarce, and none of them explores the determinants of audit opinions. Moreover, these studies ignore individual auditor characteristics as determinants of audit quality. The findings of this study provide meaningful information for several actors in the NP field and for audit firms.

Keywords: Nonprofit; Audit quality; Audit opinion; Auditor gender; Auditor sector expertise; Partner-level characteristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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