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Korean Academic Society of Business Administration
[ Article ]
korean management review - Vol. 47, No. 2, pp.221-250
ISSN: 1226-1874 (Print)
Print publication date 30 Apr 2018
Received 13 Mar 2017 Revised 28 Sep 2017 Accepted 30 Oct 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17287/kmr.2018.47.2.221

수주산업의 감사보수와 재량적 발생액과의 관계

신상훈* ; 김선미**
*(주저자) 경기대학교 경영학 박사(회계세무학)/LG CNS 경영진단팀 gsense@hanmail.net
**(교신저자) 전남대학교 경영대학 경영학부 부교수 smkim09@jnu.ac.kr
Audit Fees and Discretionary Accruals: Focused on Order-taking Industries
Sang Hoon Shin* ; Seon Mi Kim**
*Kyonggi University(Department of accounting and taxation)/LG CNS Auditing & Management Consulting Team, First Author
**Chonnam National University(Department of Business Administration), Accounting, Associate Professor, Corresponding Author

초록

수주산업의 지속되는 분식회계 논란과 최근 대우조선해양 사태 이후 회계투명성과 감사보수 적정성이 다시 한 번 주목받고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 산업을 수주산업과 비수주산업으로 구분하여 이들 산업의 감사보수 및 할증감사보수가 이익의 질로 대변되는 재량적 발생액에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다.

2009년부터 2015년까지 상장기업을 대상으로 실증분석을 실시한 결과, 수주산업의 감사보수와 할증감사보수는 이익조정과 유의한 음(-)의 상관관계를 가지는 것으로 나타났다. 반면 비수주산업의 감사보수와 할증감사보수는 이익조정과 음(-)의 상관관계를 가지나 유의하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 이는 수주산업에서만 증가된 감사보수가 경영자의 재량에 의한 이익조정을 억제한다는 연구결과로, 감사보수 및 할증감사보수로 측정된 감사품질이 수주산업의 재무정보의 왜곡가능성을 낮춘 결과로 해석된다. 그 결과 궁극적으로 수주산업에 대한 회계정보의 질이 높아진다고 판단할 수 있다.

본 연구의 공헌점은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 산업별 특성에 따른 감사보수, 할증감사보수와 회계투명성과의 관계를 실증분석을 통해 제시하였다는 점이다. 본 연구는 산업을 수주산업과 비수주산업으로 구분하여 산업별 감사보수가 회계투명성에 미치는 영향에 대해 실증분석을 통해 제시하였고 이를 통해 관련당국 및 기업에 산업별 감사보수 지급 기준의 차별적 적용 필요성을 제시하였다는 점에서 의의가 있다고 하겠다. 둘째, 분식회계 논란이 지속적으로 발생하고 있는 수주산업을 대상으로 감사보수, 할증감사보수와 회계투명성과의 관계가 실증분석을 통하여 제시되었다는 점이다. 현재 대표적인 수주산업인 건설업과 조선업의 회계부실, 분식회계 논란은 지속적으로 발생하고 있다. 이에 본 연구를 통해 이들 산업의 회계투명성 향상을 위한 방안이 간접적으로 제시되었다고 판단된다. 또한 논란이 되고 있는 이들 산업에 대한 감사보수의 적정수준에 대하여 관련당국 및 기업에 시사점을 제공한다.

Abstract

This paper examines the appropriation of audit fees for order-taking industries on discretionary accruals. After the ‘accounting cliff’ incident of the so-called Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in 2015, the issue of accounting transparency of the order-taking industry has once again attracted attention. Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering is an industry that produces low-demand, high-priced products, including construction, shipbuilding, computer programming and systems integration. The order-taking industry is characterized by a long-term industry, from product completion to delivery. The percentage-of-completion method is based on the completion of construction contracts, in calculating the revenue for subcontracting works such as bridges, dams, roads, etc. It is a revenue recognition method by considering the construction progress ratio between each profit and loss account and explaining the actual costs incurred in response to the construction revenues. However, recently controversial accounting disputes of the order-taking industry have been continuing, due to the accounting process based on this construction progress criterion.

In other words, it can reduces accounting transparency by arbitrarily reducing the total redetermined costs and carrying out high construction progress ratio, as in the case of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. However, companies can estimate the construction costs when the construction progress rate is released. As the results, the industrial competitiveness will be degraded. Accordingly, authorities and related organizations have proposed various measures and regulations in order to prevent mismanagement of accounts receivable and accounting operations. In 2016, the Korea Certified Public Accountant Society firstly introduced “Key Audit Matter, KAM” for Financial Statements of the Order-taking Industries established various practical guidelines, to establish accounting transparency. In 2017, the regulators announce the guideline to broaden the scope of sanctions for auditors that neglected such fraudulent accounting.

On the other hand, the auditing is carried out through rigorous criteria for the order-taking industry. It is not possible to erase the accountability for external accounting if the auditors have been faced the lower audit fees and audit efforts. That is, in the accounting industry, it is argued that audit quality may be deteriorated due to low audit fees(Lee and Lee 2004; Rho and Bae 2004; Kim and Ko 2017). In other words, due to the uncertainty of the long-term construction progress estimate and lack of disclosure on the change in the construction progress ratio, audit quality is deteriorating(Shin 2005; Kang et al. 2011; Sohn et al 2014; Hyun et al. 2016). The main factor is low audit fees which cannot compensate the high litigation risks(Pratt and Stice 1994; Gul et al. 1998; Abbott et al. 2006; Lee and Kim 2017). In addition, the level of increase in audit fees for listed companies in Korea has been lowered compared to the increase in audit time since the adoption of K-IFRS in 2011. It is also resulted in deterioration of auditing quality.

However, there is a lack of empirical research on the audit quality of the order-taking industry, which has raised many controversies. Therefore, it is meaningful to examine the relationship between the audit fees and the discretionary accruals in order-taking industries. In this study, we examine the effect of audit fees and abnormal audit fees on the absolute value of discretionary accruals in the order-taking industries such as constructing industry, shipbuilding industry, computer programming and system integration industry.

The results of this study, which analyzed the effect of audit fees and abnormal audit fees on the quality of financial information by dividing total samples into order-taking and non-order-taking industries from 2009 to 2015, showed that audit fees are a negatively correlated with the absolute value of discretionary accruals for order-taking industries. But, there are normally negative correlation between audit fees and abnormal audit fees and discretionary accruals for non-order-taking industries, but not significant. This implies that the increase of audit fees in the order-taking industry have higher the accounting credibility, whereas the increase in audit fees can not affect the discretionary accruals of non-order-taking industries. It implies that the incentives of managers to manage their earnings for order-taking firms is higher than for non-order-taking firms due to the uncertain progress rate. Thus, the higher audit quality is required in the order-taking industries due to the unclear standard. In addition, these results indirectly show the differential application of audit fees according to industrial characteristics.

The contribution of this study is as follows. First, the relationship between audit fees and abnormal audit fees and discretionary accruals according to industry characteristics was demonstrated through empirical analysis. This study presents the empirical analysis on the effect of audit fees on the quality of financial information by dividing the industry into the order-taking industry and the non-order-taking industry. Second, the results of this paper are systematically meaningful in that the audit fees can differently affect the audit qualities by the industries. Currently, the controversial accounting of the construction and shipbuilding industries, which are the typical order-taking industries, continues to arise. Therefore, this study indirectly suggests ways to improve the accounting credibility in these industries. It also provides implications for the authorities and firms on the appropriate level of audit fees for these controversial industries.

Keywords:

Percentage-of-completion method, Order-taking industries, Audit Fees, Abnormal Audit Fees, Audit Quality, Earning managements

키워드:

공사진행기준, 수주산업, 감사보수, 감사품질, 이익조정, 회계투명성

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