The audit profession field is the dominant force to push forward every revision of audit reporting model during many significant revisions before the beginning of the 21 st century, and they have a prominent tendency ...The audit profession field is the dominant force to push forward every revision of audit reporting model during many significant revisions before the beginning of the 21 st century, and they have a prominent tendency to protect auditing industry instead of a response to the users' information demand for investment decision. Traditional audit reporting model cannot satisfy the need of modem auditing, and it is essential to reconstruct current audit reporting model of modem risk-oriented auditing (MRA) during the post-financial crisis era, because it lacks communication value, valuable information, and effective alert information. The study provides the main contents about the reconstruction plan of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB): auditor's discussion and analysis (AD&A), required and expanded use of emphasis paragraphs in the auditor's report, auditor assurance on other information outside the financial statements, and clarification of language in the standard auditor's report. Then, the study discusses the effects of the reconstruction of audit reporting model on different stakeholders of audit including the auditors, the investors, the regulators, and the researchers.展开更多
基金The authors are grateful for research supports from the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Fund Project of the Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. llYJA790179) and Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China (Grant No. ZR2010GM010).
文摘The audit profession field is the dominant force to push forward every revision of audit reporting model during many significant revisions before the beginning of the 21 st century, and they have a prominent tendency to protect auditing industry instead of a response to the users' information demand for investment decision. Traditional audit reporting model cannot satisfy the need of modem auditing, and it is essential to reconstruct current audit reporting model of modem risk-oriented auditing (MRA) during the post-financial crisis era, because it lacks communication value, valuable information, and effective alert information. The study provides the main contents about the reconstruction plan of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB): auditor's discussion and analysis (AD&A), required and expanded use of emphasis paragraphs in the auditor's report, auditor assurance on other information outside the financial statements, and clarification of language in the standard auditor's report. Then, the study discusses the effects of the reconstruction of audit reporting model on different stakeholders of audit including the auditors, the investors, the regulators, and the researchers.