Reporting Key Audit Matters: A Review of Literature

This paper presents a review of the literature on issues concerning independent auditors’ report involving key audit matters (KAMs). The paper aims to provide an overview of the existing literature, summarize their findings and implications, and give insights into the state of KAMs reporting. The st...

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Main Authors: Ilias, Nurul Fatihah, Mohamad Yusof, Nor Zalina, Salim, Basariah
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spelling my.uum.repo.299462023-11-15T10:50:14Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29946/ Reporting Key Audit Matters: A Review of Literature Ilias, Nurul Fatihah Mohamad Yusof, Nor Zalina Salim, Basariah HF5601 Accounting This paper presents a review of the literature on issues concerning independent auditors’ report involving key audit matters (KAMs). The paper aims to provide an overview of the existing literature, summarize their findings and implications, and give insights into the state of KAMs reporting. The study adopts a structured review of literature on KAMs reporting based on articles published between 2018 to 2022 in SCOPUS-indexed journals. The review shows that not much publication in the SCOPUS-indexed journals related to factors influencing KAMs disclosure, but it is evident that there is an increasing amount of literature on this topic, particularly from 2020 to 2022. Furthermore, it is found that research associated with reporting KAMs primarily uses quantitative methods. Hence, the literature review is useful for researchers to identify areas for further academic research. From a practical point of view, the findings from the study will assist auditors to better understand the issues related to reporting KAMs and obtain insights into the key areas where such reporting is issued. 2022 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29946/1/UUM%20IQRC%202022_161-167.pdf Ilias, Nurul Fatihah and Mohamad Yusof, Nor Zalina and Salim, Basariah (2022) Reporting Key Audit Matters: A Review of Literature. In: UUM International Qualitative Research Conference (QRC), 28 - 30 November 2022, Virtual Conference.
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Ilias, Nurul Fatihah
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Salim, Basariah
Reporting Key Audit Matters: A Review of Literature
description This paper presents a review of the literature on issues concerning independent auditors’ report involving key audit matters (KAMs). The paper aims to provide an overview of the existing literature, summarize their findings and implications, and give insights into the state of KAMs reporting. The study adopts a structured review of literature on KAMs reporting based on articles published between 2018 to 2022 in SCOPUS-indexed journals. The review shows that not much publication in the SCOPUS-indexed journals related to factors influencing KAMs disclosure, but it is evident that there is an increasing amount of literature on this topic, particularly from 2020 to 2022. Furthermore, it is found that research associated with reporting KAMs primarily uses quantitative methods. Hence, the literature review is useful for researchers to identify areas for further academic research. From a practical point of view, the findings from the study will assist auditors to better understand the issues related to reporting KAMs and obtain insights into the key areas where such reporting is issued.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ilias, Nurul Fatihah
Mohamad Yusof, Nor Zalina
Salim, Basariah
author_facet Ilias, Nurul Fatihah
Mohamad Yusof, Nor Zalina
Salim, Basariah
author_sort Ilias, Nurul Fatihah
title Reporting Key Audit Matters: A Review of Literature
title_short Reporting Key Audit Matters: A Review of Literature
title_full Reporting Key Audit Matters: A Review of Literature
title_fullStr Reporting Key Audit Matters: A Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Reporting Key Audit Matters: A Review of Literature
title_sort reporting key audit matters: a review of literature
publishDate 2022
url https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29946/1/UUM%20IQRC%202022_161-167.pdf
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