Presenting the Pattern of Impact of the weakness of internal controls on Audit Risk with Emphasis on the Moderating Role of Personality Types

Understanding the client accounting process and its internal control systems requires professional judgment in planning the audit and developing an effective approach designed to ensure that the overall audit risk is reduced to an acceptable level. The operational inefficiency and quality of financial reporting are negative consequences of the weakness of internal controls, which are likely to be due to the type of managers' personality type. The purpose of this study is to Presenting the Pattern of Impact of the weakness of internal controls on Audit Risk with Emphasis on the Moderating Role of Personality Types.. Criteria for deviation from standards and laws, weak internal controls, and the neo-five-point personality were used. The study was conducted with 87 sample companies over a 6-year period from 2012 to 2017, including 522 years. The importance of audit risk criteria was then determined by paired questions and hierarchical analysis (AHP). The findings of the study indicate that there is no significant relationship between weaknesses of internal control and audit risk. Among neo-personality dimensions, only extraversion and conscientiousness have positive and significant relationship with weakness of internal controls and audit risk. They have no significant relationship with it.