TITLE:
A Study of Key Audit Matters Disclosure
AUTHORS:
Hui Li
KEYWORDS:
Key Audit Matters Disclosure, Reporter Users, Auditor, Audited Entity
JOURNAL NAME:
Modern Economy,
Vol.11 No.2,
February
19,
2020
ABSTRACT: With the continuous development of the capital
market, the quality requirements for the audit reports of listed companies are
becoming stricter and stricter. On December 23, 2016, China officially released
the auditing standards of China certified public accountants no.1504—communicating
key audit matters in audit reports. Listed companies listed on A + H shares
implemented the new standards in their financial reports from January 1, 2017,
and fully implemented standard 1504 from January 1, 2018. Under the new standards,
the audit reports of listed companies disclose the key audit matters that have
significant impact during the current audit process. This paper studies the
format, content and quantity of disclosure of key audit matters, and analyzes
the disclosure of key audit matters of China’s A-share listed companies from
2016 to 2018 and summarizes the impact of disclosure of key audit matters from
three aspects: users of financial reports, auditors and the audited entity.