أثر فجوة التوقعات في التدقيق على مدى استخدام التقارير المالية على الإنترنت من قبل المستثمرين المؤسسيين في الأردن

نبال خالد الشقور, إكريم صياح الحجايا

Abstract


هدفت الدراسة الحالية التعرف على مدى وجود فجوة التوقعات في التدقيق (فجوة الأداء) بين مدققي الحسابات والمستثمرين المؤسسيين في الأردن فيما يتعلق بالتقارير المالية على الإنترنت، ومعرفة مدى تأثير هذة الفجوة – إن وجدت - على استخدام المستثمرين المؤسسيين للتقارير المالية المنشورة على الموقع الإلكتروني للقطاع المالي.
وقد تم جمع بيانات الدراسة من خلال تصميم استبانة وتوزيعها على عينة مدققي الحسابات والمستثمرين المؤسسيين في القطاع المالي، وقد شملت عينة المستثمرين المؤسسيين استهداف مدراء المحافظ الاستثمارية في البنوك وشركات التأمين وشركات الوساطة المالية، وقد تم استرداد 122 استبانة صالحة للتحليل (93 للمدققين و29 للمستثمرين المؤسسيين) من أصل 162 التي تم توزيعها بنسبة استرداد 75.3%. ولاختبار فرضيات الدراسة تم استخدام اختبار t للعينات المستقلة واختبار الانحدار البسيط.
توصلت الدراسة إلى مجموعة من النتائج كان أبرزها أن مدقق الحسابات يقيم عمله بأنه ذو أداء مرتفع بينما يرى المستثمر المؤسسي بأن أداء المدقق ليس بمستوى التوقع منه (فجوة الأداء). كما أظهرت نتائج هذه الدراسة وجود أثر ذو دلالة إحصائية لفجوة توقعات الأداء في التدقيق على مدى إستخدام المعلومات المنشورة على الموقع الإلكتروني للشركة وكان هذا الأثر عكسياً أي أنه كلما ارتفعت فجوة الأداء قل استخدام المستثمرين المؤسسيين للمعلومات المنشورة على الإنترنت.

The Impact of Expectation Gap in Auditing on the Extent of the Use of Online Financial Reports by Institutional Investors in Jordan


The current study aimed at identifing the extent of the presence of expectations gap in auditing (the performance gap), regarding online financial reporting, amonest auditors and institutional investors in Jordan, in addition to determining the impact of this gap, if existed, on the use of institutional investors of financial reports published on the website of the companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange.
The study data was collected using a questionnaire survey among Jordanian external auditors and institutional investors in the Amman Stock Exchange. The institutional investors sample included the managers of investment portfolios in banks, insurance companies and financial intermediation companies. As a result, out of 162 distributed quastionnaires, 122 valid questionnaires were collected and analyzed (93 for auditors and 29 for investors Founders). To test the study hypotheses, )t-test( for independent samples and simple regression test were impelented.
The study concluded with a set of results: First, the auditors evaluate his work as having a high performance, while the institutional investors believe that the performance of the auditor is not at the level of expectations (performance gap). The results of this study also showed that there is a statistically significant negative effect of the performance gap on the extent of using the information published on the company's website by instituational investors in Jordan, that is, the higher the performance gap, the less institutional investors use the information published on the Internet.

Keywords


فجوة التوقعات في التدقيق، التقارير المالية على الإنترنت، فجوة الأداء، بورصة عمان. Expectations gap in auditing, online financial reporting, performance gap, Amman stock exchange.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.35682/1668

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