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A stock company is a business organization which plays an important role in the national economy. The transparency of corporate governance is an urgent problem. The auditing system is expected...
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A stock company is a business organization which plays an important role in the national economy. The transparency of corporate governance is an urgent problem. The auditing system is expected to serve the purpose of creating transparency. As the number of interested parties such as stockholders and creditors increases, the stock companies are considered as not just a private-economic subject but as an economic subject which has public character. Therefore, in modern times, the stock companies' social responsibility has come to be emphasized.
However, the audit system under current Korean commercial law is alleged to have many problems and there is doubt about its effectiveness. The factors indicated as the main reasons for this problem are the formal general stockholder's meeting, controlling stockholder's power, insufficiency of an effective connection between an internal auditor and an external accountant and defective regulations under commercial law etc.. To make the audit system function effectively and therefore keep stock companies sound, the independence and professionalism of an auditor or audit committee, should be guaranteed in the first place. In reality, auditors have been controlled by the stockholders and a board of directors. Under the corporate governance that ownership and management were not separate, and large stockholders and the group head had actual dominion, a board of directors and auditor were only to be dominated by the group head as well as a large stockholder. This is the reason the audit committee was introduced through the amendment of the Commercial Code in December, 1999. However, this new law but it also has many problems.
This thesis is organized into the following three main chapters.
In Chapter 2, the audit systems of stock companies in Germany, France, Japan, England and United States of America(which have affected Korean Commercial Law) are examined.
In Chapter 3, the legal status of auditors, audit committees and external accountants under the Korean Commercial Code and related regulations is analyzed.
In Chapter 4, the relationship between coperate governance and the audit system is discussed.
This dissertation suggested a direction for reformation; first, it lays emphasis on the continuation of the existing auditing system and the strengthening of auditing capacity. Second, it lays emphasis on the establishment of audit committees. Although wide research and continuous discussion about the audit system of Korea has been done, this dissertation needed to serve as a good reference for the development of an effective audit system of Korean stock companies.
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