Since the financial scandals of the 2000s, the business environment has been punctuated by fraud and ethical problems that increase uncertainty and risk in the conduct of business. Researchers and practitioners have analyzed these scandals as the result of the weakness and failure of corporate...

The Internal Auditing & Risk Management is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal started in 2006 by Athenaeum University and The Center of Excellence in Financial Management and Internal Audit and publishes original high-quality papers in the field of management and auditing

Prior studies conclude that an unintended consequence of firms complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is lower levels of risk-taking activities, including investment. We first show that prior studies cannot isolate the effects of SOX from other contemporaneous events. We then use the...

The purpose of public company audits is to increase the integrity of firms' financial statements. However, research provides mixed evidence on whether better auditors mitigate misstatement risk embedded in the financial reporting process. A challenge in previous studies is the lack of a powerful...

In addition to the well-known facilitators of good corporate governance, such as executive boards (EBs) and audit committees (ACs), recent literature increasingly refers to the benefits of implementing an internal audit function (IAF). This may lead to imminent problems, which are discussed...

New internal control reporting (ICR) requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) imposed affirmative duties on managers and auditors to evaluate and attest to the effectiveness of internal controls. This paper studies the role of ICR regulation in alleviating accounting manipulation....