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AbstractTitle:Internal control of family businessAdvisor:Duh, Rong RueyAuthor:Mau, Niann ChyuFamily business is the most distinct feature of the operational style of Taiwanese firm. As it is influenced by the substantives ethics of confucianism, family controls the company''s shares and also holds seats on the board of directors and supervisors of the company. This research attempts to study the following question : Is "family business" a sensible mechanism for mitigating agency cost ? From this base, wheather family business needs to draw regarding the adequacy of design and effectiveness of operation of the control process as non-family business ?This research is from culture point and applies the concepts of agency theory and internal control-integrated framework, exploring internal control''s feature of family business. We used the public companies(exclusive Bank、Insurance and Architecture Industries) as the sample and mailed questionnaire to search internal control''s condition.The results are as follow:family business'' (1) control environment is different from non-family business and it tends toward traditional family culture feature ; (2) management''s philosophy tends to informal managerial ways ; (3) competence of top-management , family members or trust worthy outsiders will possibly be assigned to key post of an organization ; (4) information and communication-family business is regardless of the accounting information system than non-family business , and lacks a means of formal communicating significant information upstream ; (5) control activities-top management-family business establishes looser policies and procedures for top management than non-family business ; (6) authorization-top management-family business, very often, has many important policies which are made by family conferences, non-family members have no chance to participate in dicision making ; (7) segregation of duties-top management-family business is regardless of segregation of duties for top management than non-family business.
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