The Impact of Auditor Reputation on the Relationship between Weak Internal Control in Financial Reporting and Investment Efficiency

The internal control system in the company increases the trust of users of financial statements and is in accordance with the rules and regulations and has an important effect on the reliability of financial statements and can lead to investment efficiency. In the present study, the effect of auditor reputation on the relationship between poor internal control in financial reporting and investment efficiency has been investigated. This research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of methodology, correlation is a type of causal research. The statistical population of the study was all companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange, of which 118 companies were selected as the research sample and were surveyed over a period of 5 years between 2014 and 1397. The method used to collect information was library and multiple linear regression was used to test the hypotheses. Stata software version 15 was used to perform the tests and final estimation of the models. The results show that there is a significant negative relationship between the weakness of internal control in financial reporting and investment efficiency. However, the auditor's reputation does not affect the relationship between poor internal control in financial reporting and investment performance.