Determinants of an audit report lag. A meta-analysis

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Business economics - Information Management, grade: 2,0, University of Bremen, language: English, abstract: This paper shows with the help of a meta-analysis the existence of the determinants of an audit report lag. Moreover this article calculates the relevance of these determinants with the help of Z-scores. The justification of this paper is to get a greater extent of knowledge through a meta-analytic literature review of the determinants of audit report lags. An audit report lag is the number of days from a company¿s fiscal year-end to the date of its auditor¿s report.

Due to the great development of the globalization and economy, this world has more economical data and is more complicated in an economical context than before. Proof for this statement is the subprime crisis 2007, where Asset-Backed Commercial Papers had a complicated transformation. In addition to this the accounting has issues with too much information and complicated financial products. At first accounting has problems with disclosure of information in the financial statement. Secondly Big Data challenges accounting and finally audit report lags are larger after a new standard is set by the standard-setter or a company has a poor performance in this particular fiscal year. In addition to this last problem, there are a lot of more determinants for an audit report lag than these two. Accordingly this audit report lag is a problem for accounting.