The Quality of External Audit in OHADA Space: A Qualitative Study with Board of Director¡¯s Members¡¯ Perception as Understanding Variable

Os¨¦e Hanko

Applied Finance and Accounting, 2016, vol. 2, issue 2, 11-17

Abstract: Audit quality has been evaluated in academic literature accordingly with auditor qualities, due to the difficulties of observing auditing technical process itself. The qualities of a good auditor are then competence and independence, sine qua none conditions of audit quality. That approach is otherwise valid only if there is a valuable framework like stock market where auditor¡¯s competence and independence could be observed. In OHADA space countries, the financial market is approximately off. It is therefore impossible to assess audit quality the way it has been done in prior literature. This study suggests a new approach of assessing audit quality in OHADA countries in relation with audit committees member¡¯s perception of auditing process. Using an innovative qualitative approach inspired from Manita (2008), the results suggest to take into account the auditor¡¯s knowledge of the company, the relevance of the identified zone of risks and the degree of communication with the board of directors.

Keywords: Audit quality; Technical audit process; OHADA space countries; financial market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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