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FAR Literature Review - Internal Controls

The importance of internal control over financial reporting (ICOFR) has increased over the past few decades. All over the world, governments are reinforcing regulations related to internal controls, forcing firms as well as their auditors to direct more attention to the quality of internal controls in place. Along with the growing importance of ICOFR, researchers have conducted studies examining different aspects relating to internal controls.To provide a broad overview of the current understanding of internal control systems, in this literature review we provide a summary and synthesis of studies conducted.

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Authors

Prof. dr. Jean Bédard

Jean Bédard is professor at Laval University in Québec City. 

His research covers various audit subject matters and research methods; spanning, for example, auditor expertise, audit committees and corporate governance, internal control systems, professional ethics, regulation of the accounting profession, auditor judgment, and auditor report, employing experimentation, interviewing, field work, and empirical archival methods. 

Prof. dr. Mieke Jans

Assistent Professor at Hasselt University

Dr. Annelies Renders

Associate Professor Accounting & Information Management, School of Business and Economics

Dr. Caren Schelleman
Caren Schelleman is an assistant professor at the Department of Accounting and Information Management at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Caren coordinates and teaches courses on internal control and auditing at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She has presented papers at Annual Congresses of the European Accounting Association, Midyear Meetings of the Audit Section of the American Accounting Association, the International Symposium on Audit Research, conferences of the European Auditing Research Network, and at several workshops and seminars in Europe and the US. Her research interests include auditing, assurance services, internal control, and corporate governance, both from an economic and a behavioral point of view.


Dr. Mathijs van Peteghem

Assistant Professor at Maastricht University & Doctoral researcher KU Leuven

Drs. Lei Zou

Ph.D. Candidate Acounting & Information Management, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

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