Impact of Audit Evidence on Auditor’S Report

Abstract

This study seeks to emphasize the importance of audit evidences, their quality characteristics and the professional judgment used to measure and to evaluate them in order to express their final audit opinion. There is no mathematical formula, neither a specific model in order to evaluate the quality of audit evidences. Their quality depends upon the professional judgment concerning the audit technical standards, the accounting references and nevertheless upon the auditor’s ethics. This is one of the reasons for which the financial audit is one of the edges of economical research, highlighting the credibility of financial statements. This study employ primary and secondary source of data. Questionnaires were administered to obtain information about audit evidence and auditor report was obtained through the secondary source. The empirical findings from the binary logistic regression result revealed that sufficiency of audit evidence had a negative but insignificant and reliability of audit evidence had a positive coefficient sign but insignificant. The low value of the Mcfadden R-squared indicated that the null hypotheses were rejected and acceptance of the alternative hypotheses. The study suggested that further empirical work should be conducted in this area.

Keywords: Auditor report, Audit evidence, Audit opinion and Auditing standard.