Financial Reporting Quality and Audit Adjustments Clauses

Auditors' report in the decision making process of users of financial statements is considered as one of the useful information and one of the ways to ensure the quality of financial reporting is the audit report. This research is investigating the effect of financial reporting quality on adjustment clauses of audit report. The research sample consists of 645 views (year - year) from 2009 to 2014. These models used to measure the quality of financial reporting: including Kothari & et al (2005), Kaznik (1999) and McNichols & Stubben (2008) and the research hypothesis has been tested using logit regression. In all three models, there was a negative correlation between financial reporting quality and audit adjustments. The result suggests that the quality of financial reporting is critical to auditors' decision making for adjustments, and with the increase in the quality of financial reporting, the amount of adjustments is reduced. This study, by identifying the impact of the auditor's moderation clauses on the quality of financial reporting helps investors and creditors to investigate managers' opportunistic behaviors. It also by applying three different criteria in assessing the quality of financial reporting adds to the richness of existing literature.