감사인 제공 세무조정서비스와 경영전략의 관계에 외국인지분율이 미치는 영향

Abstract

In this study, we attempted to confirm the additional effect of foreign ownership on the relationship between the tax adjustment service provided by the auditor, earnings management and tax avoidance. The results of the previous study show that the tax adjustment service provided by the auditor has a positive effect on tax avoidance or profit adjustment, but subsequent studies after that are not performed. This study empirically analyzed the relationship between the tax adjustment service provided by the auditor and the tax avoidance or earnings management of the firm, which may have additional influence by the corporate governance structure, especially foreign shareholders. The foreign ownership rate has been interpreted as providing the supervisory function to the manager in many previous studies. This study can confirm that the monitoring function of foreign shareholders can affect the relationship between tax avoidance of tax adjustment service provided by auditor and earnings management(+). It is expected that the positive (+) relationship will weaken if foreign shareholders play a role of the observer in the independence of the auditor and the tax reconciliation cause when the auditor performs the tax adjustment. This research aims to study the following contents. First, the higher the foreign ownership rate, the more likely it is that the auditor has a negative relationship with the purchase of tax adjustment service. The results show that the higher the foreign ownership, the weaker the relationship between the auditor and the taxpayer. This can be interpreted as the effect of foreign shareholder's lowering of managerial hiring of auditor and tax co-ordinator in the situation where various financial variables are controlled. Second, we analyze whether the tax avoidance and earnings management decrease more as the foreign ownership rate increases when the auditor provided tax adjustment service. As a result, it was confirmed that the interaction variables of foreign ownership and audit service provided by the auditor have a negative relationship with tax avoidance and earnings management. In the case of tax avoidance, there was no significant relationship with receipt of auditor-provided tax adjustment service. However, the higher the shareholding ratio of foreign shareholders, the more negative relation was observed in the correlation. In the case of earnings management, the relationship between earnings management and tax reconciliation service provided by the auditor was positive (+), and it was confirmed that the relationship decreased as the shareholding ratio of foreign shareholders increased.