資金過多或不足,以及其來源與流向一直是企業營運中相當重要的課題。為了讓所有跟企業有關的利害關係人能更加了解公司的經營體質,企業本身的現金流量品質就扮演著重要的角色。本研究以2008年至2014年間,在台灣公開交易之上市櫃公司為研究對象,利用三種現金流量的特質(CFQ1、CFQ2及CFQ3)做為現金流量品質的代理變數,探討現金流量品質與會計師事務所規模及會計師產業專精之關聯性。 實證結果顯示,不論探討會計師事務所規模或是會計師產業專精與現金流量品質之關聯,其結果皆部分支持研究假說。在假說一方面,當企業之現金流量品質呈現CFQ1時,與會計師事務所規模呈現顯著負相關,與本研究之預期相符,而當企業現金流量品質呈現CFQ2及CFQ3時,其實證結果則不顯著。在假說二方面,當企業現金流量品質呈現CFQ1時,與會計師產業專精呈現顯著負相關,與本研究之預期相符,而當企業現金流量品質呈現CFQ2及CFQ3時,其實證結果並不顯著。
Insufficient or excess cash, or the providing or using channels of cash flows are the key concerns to a successful company. The quality of cash flow (QCF) is an important information to the shareholders and other outsiders of the company to realize the business operations. Research sample are collected from the publicly traded companies from 2008 to 2014. Two hypotheses were developed in this study. Three proxies of the quality of cash flows (CFQ1, CFQ2 and CFQ3) were used to test our conjectures. Empirical result show that either the size of CPA firms or audit industry specialization are correlated with the quality of cash flows. However, these finding only partially support our arguments. We find a negative correlation between the size of CPA firms and the quality of cash flows, when we use the sign of operating cash flows (CFQ1) as the proxy of QCF. In addition, there is a negative correlation between audit industry specialization and QCF, when we use the CFQ1 as the proxy of QCF.