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How Does Combined Assurance Affect the Reliability of Integrated Reports and Investors’ Judgments?

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  • Hien Hoang
  • Soon-Yeow Phang

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As integrated reports evolve to meet the needs of stakeholders, it is increasingly important to establish reliable information. We examine the effect of a new technique to enhance the reporting reliability, referred to as ‘combined assurance’ (through which the audit committee coordinates the assurance roles of management, internal assurance and external assurance providers and concludes on the effectiveness of risk management, internal controls and reporting quality), on restoring investors’ willingness to invest when there are significant reporting reliability risks. We conduct a series of experiments with different operationalizations of reporting reliability risks. We find that the communication of combined assurance can restore investors’ perceived reliability of reported information and willingness to invest when there is bad news (Experiment 1); when there is a non-financial key audit matter (KAM) indicating estimation uncertainty in the non-financial information (Experiment 2); and when there is a financial KAM indicating risks of manipulated financial reporting (Experiment 3). Our study has implications for practitioners, standard setters, and regulators who are exploring possible mechanisms to enhance the reliability of financial and non-financial information in the integrated reports.

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  • Hien Hoang & Soon-Yeow Phang, 2021. "How Does Combined Assurance Affect the Reliability of Integrated Reports and Investors’ Judgments?," European Accounting Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(1), pages 175-195, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:euract:v:30:y:2021:i:1:p:175-195
    DOI: 10.1080/09638180.2020.1745659
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    1. Amir Hossain & Sudipta Bose & Abul Shamsuddin, 2023. "Diffusion of integrated reporting, insights and potential avenues for future research," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 63(2), pages 2503-2555, June.
    2. Wang, Qi & Zhang, Lin & Ma, Qianqun & Wu, Chong, 2024. "The impact of financial risk on boilerplate of key audit matters: Evidence from China," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 70(PB).
    3. Hien Hoang & Robyn Moroney & Soon‐Yeow Phang & Xinning Xiao, 2023. "Investor reactions to key audit matters: Financial and non‐financial contexts," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 63(3), pages 3325-3349, September.
    4. Oleksandr Sherstiuk & Tetiana Demianenko, 2023. "Integrated Reporting in the Context of Information Support of Business Analysis," Oblik i finansi, Institute of Accounting and Finance, issue 4, pages 39-46, December.
    5. Oleksandr Sherstiuk, 2024. "Methodical Aspects of the Integrated Reporting Preparation," Oblik i finansi, Institute of Accounting and Finance, issue 1, pages 22-27, March.
    6. Boyle, Erik S. & Mintchik, Natalia & Warne, Rick C., 2023. "When it pays to be a friend: Investigating nonprofessional investors' judgments toward CSR companies following an accounting restatement," Advances in accounting, Elsevier, vol. 60(C).

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