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Audit for Whom? Time to Review Roles of Independent Auditors in Hong Kong

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Author	Tsui, Tat Chee
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	The Hong Kong government has been reforming its laws regarding accounting practices in recent years, to pre-empt problems similar to that of Enron. It correctly recognizes an opportunity to enhance and distinguish the financial system in Hong Kong and create a competitive advantage for Hong Kong. The sixty-five billion dollar question is: what is the right approach for accounting practice reform? One obvious approach is to model reform after the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX). The SOX increases personal liabilities of senior management and introduces extremely cumbersome compliance processes (s 3 (b)(ix) of Minutes of Bills Committee of Financial Reporting Council Bill. (19 July 2005)). While this approach may be the right move for the United States, because rescuing investor confidence is paramount, a similar approach may not be optimal for Hong Kong. Hong Kong relies, to a great degree, on foreign investments and a heavy-handed approach may scare investments away (Charles E. Schumer & Michael R. Bloomberg To Save New York, Learn from London, Wall Street Journal 1 Nov 2006). This paper, argues that failure of independent auditors was mainly caused by bad incentives. In particular, auditors were hired by and responsible to the management of companies. Thus, there is no surprise that auditors were less diligent in finding problems caused by management. Furthermore, proposing of an alternate to the SOA’s approach. Specifically, a new legal approach should be enforced that allows shareholders to sue auditors when failure to uncover accounting issues causes loss of shareholders’ values.
Starting Page	21
Ending Page	39
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10966838
Journal	East Asia
Volume Number	26
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	18746284
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-11-28
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Auditors’ responsibility Fiduciary duty Financial reporting requirement Listed rule Professional duty Professional negligence Sarbanes-Oxley Act Social Sciences Political Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Political Science and International Relations Development

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