Murat Ocak

Murat Ocak
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  • Ph.D.
  • Professor (Associate) at Trakya University

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Introduction
Current institution
Trakya University
Current position
  • Professor (Associate)
Additional affiliations
October 2013 - August 2022
Trakya University
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
October 2009 - December 2012
Istanbul Aydın University
Position
  • Research Assistant
Education
September 2008 - May 2013
Istanbul University
Field of study
  • Accounting
September 1999 - September 2005
Istanbul University
Field of study
  • Faculty of Economics

Publications

Publications (31)
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This paper investigates the effect of the number of key audit matter disclosures (KAMs) on audit report lag, focusing on Turkey, an emerging country. The main findings indicate that the number of KAMs positively influences audit report lag in Turkey. System GMM results reinforce our primary estimations, supporting the robustness of our findings. No...
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Purpose: This paper investigates whether female directors of companies are more likely to appoint audit firms with women in high-level positions adopting monitoring, reputation and homophily theories. Design/Methodology: The paper employs OLS to test the hypotheses using a unique hand-collected dataset obtained from various sources. To mitigate po...
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Purpose This study aims to investigate whether there is a relationship between the religiosity levels of chairpersons’ hometowns and the financial reporting quality of companies. Design/methodology/approach Using a unique hand-collected data set obtained from various sources, the authors use ordinary least squares and logistic regressions to test t...
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This study investigates the effect of individual auditors from more religious hometowns on audit quality, utilizing social identity and social norm theories via a sample of Turkish companies listed on the Borsa Istanbul and their associated individual auditors between the years 2010 and 2019. The sample includes a unique hand-collected dataset and...
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Relying on the resource dependence theory, this study investigates the effect on intellectual capital efficiency and its components of having board members who are former bureaucrats, using a sample of banks in Turkiye. The study uses a sample of 344 fırm-year observations of banks in Turkiye between 2005 and 2018 to investigate the relationship be...
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Abstract Purpose We examine the association between the amount of continuing professional education (CPE) hours per staff and audit quality in terms of discretionary accruals and audit opinion. Design/methodology/approach Several methodologies are adopted to test the hypotheses, including the ordinary least square (OLS) and logistic regression (L...
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Purpose This paper examines the effect of audit firm governance on audit quality. Audit firm governance is broken down into two categories, board ownership and engagement partner ownership. Design/Methodology/Approach Audit firms from Borsa Istanbul and their clients who are quoted there as well were used to test the hypotheses. The final sample c...
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Bu çalışmanın amacı, denetim firmalarının yayımlamış olduğu şeffaflık raporlarının yayımlanma zamanını etkileyen iç faktörleri ortaya koymaktır. Çalışmada, 2013-2020 yılları arasında 446 denetim firması şeffaflık raporu ve en küçük kareler ve negatif binomial regresyon yöntemleri kullanılmıştır. Sonuçlar, denetim firması yaşının, yönetim kurulu üye...
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The aim of the study is to examine the association between audit quality and individual auditors providing independent audit service to the firms affiliated with the same business group. We used Turkish Listed firms traded in Borsa İstanbul between 2010 and 2016. These auditors have been associated with lower audit quality in terms of discretionary...
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This study examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in comparison to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) on the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of China. Empirical analyses are conducted through alternative methods such as ordinary least squares (OLS), Markov regime-switching (MRS), and mixed data sampling (MIDAS) regressions. The flexib...
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Purpose The current study aims to contribute to the literature by offering a different sector and emphasising the importance of females in audit firm (AF) governance on audit firm performance (AFP). Design/Methodology/Approach Ordinary least square (OLS) and instrument variables regression (IVREG) with two-stage least square (2SLS) are employed to...
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Purpose This study aimed to examine the effect of size on capital expenditures and observe how crises affect the capital expenditures of companies of different sizes. Design/Methodology/Approach The panel data estimation procedure was conducted as the main method to test the hypotheses. To ensure the robustness of the main estimation results, we em...
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Technological improvements have introduced many changes that attract not only the entire society but also companies. Companies that use technological opportunities take advantage of competition. In a rapidly changing world companies should be innovative and flexible to adapt to new technological developments. In this study, the authors investigate...
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This study explores the effect of intangible assets and sub-components of intangible assets on sustainable growth and firm value in Turkey. The cumulative (i.e. aggregative) value of intangible assets of firms and sub-components of intangible assets were used as test variables in the current study. Further, intangible assets of the firms were divid...
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Purpose Recent studies regarding auditor experience generally focus on auditor overall experience in accounting, auditing, finance and related fields (Hardies et al., 2014), auditor sector and domain experience (Bedard and Biggs, 1991; Hammersley, 2006), auditor experience as CPA (Ye et al., 2014; Sonu et al., 2016) or big N experience (Chi and Hu...
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This paper investigates the effect of formal education on audit opinion. We used Borsa Istanbul firms to test the hypotheses using logistic regression. The sample covers maximum 1,060 observations between year 2008 and year 2013. The results show that auditors with master’s or PhD degrees and auditors with bachelor’s degree from the Department of B...
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This chapter focuses on the impact of corporate governance indicators on intangible investment (innovative property) and aims to understand the linkages among gender diversity, independency, and intangibles. The literature on corporate governance has mainly focused on the relation between corporate governance indicators and firm financial performan...
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This paper investigates the direct and moderating effects of IFRS adoption on the firms' cash holdings in Turkey for the period of 1992-2016. We found a significant and negative relationship between IFRS adoption and cash holdings. We further incorporated an accounting quality variable, earnings variability, in our models to investigate the moderat...
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In this study, I examine the effect of auditor education level on the relationship between auditor busyness and audit quality using Turkish listed firms. Prior studies regarding auditor busyness have not considered how auditor busyness affects audit quality in the case of auditors who are less educated or more educated. I created some interaction v...
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This paper investigates the effects of engagement partners' attributes on earnings quality using 725 firm*year observations between 2008 and 2013 from Borsa İstanbul manufacturing industry firms. We use two indicators of earnings quality to test the effects of gender, educational background, experience and certification from among engagement partne...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of signing auditor-specific characteristics on the audit report lag using 968 firm-year observations from Borsa İstanbul in the period 2008-2013. The main findings indicate that the gender and education level of signing auditor have a positive effect on audit report lag. Also, big4 audit firms in T...
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Bu çalışmada, kurumsal yönetişim bir takım niteliksel özelliklerle ölçümlenmiş ve tahakkuk esaslı kâr yönetimi üzerindeki kısıtlayıcı etkisi panel veri analizi ile araştırılmıştır. Kurumsal yönetişimin tahakkuk esaslı kâr yönetimi üzerindeki etkisini tespit etmek amacı ile 2008-2013 yılları arasında Borsa İstanbul Ulusal Tüm Endeksinde 922 işletme*...
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Bu çalışmanın amacı yönetim kurulu toplantı sayısını etkileyen faktörleri belirlemektir. Çalışmada, Borsa İstanbul’a kote işletmelerin 2005-2013 yılları arasındaki verilerinden yararlanılarak 931 işletme-yıl gözlem kullanılmıştır. İmalat; toptan&perakende, otel, restoran ve teknoloji ana sektörleri ele alınmış, verilerin analizi için negatif binomi...
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Bu çalışmanın amacı maddi olmayan varlıkların işletmelerin finansal performansı üzerindeki etkisini belirlemektir. Borsa İstanbul (BIST) Ulusal Tüm Endeksi’nde (XUTUM) yer alan işletmelere ait maddi olmayan varlıkların gelişimi 2005-2013 yılları esas alınarak ele alınmış ve maddi olmayan varlıklar; yenilikçi varlık, bilgisayarla işlenmiş enformasyo...
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Bu çalışmada ilk olarak tahakkuk/işlem esaslı kâr yönetimi ve bağımsız denetim görüşü arasındaki ilişki araştırılmıştır. İkinci olarak geçmiş dönemde alınan olumlu görüş dışındaki görüşlerin mevcut dönemde denetim firması değişimine etkisi araştırılmıştır. Borsa İstanbul İmalat sektöründe yer alan 1121 işletme'yıl gözlem kullanılmıştır. Sonuçlar, t...
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Bu çalışma maddi olmayan varlıkların Borsa İstanbul (BIST) Ulusal Tüm İndeksi’nde yer alan firmalar açısından gelişimini 2005-2013 yıllarını esas alarak incelemektedir. Maddi olmayan varlıklara ilişkin Türkiye’de herhangi bir sınıflandırma bulunmamaktadır. Ulusal yazındaki bu eksikliği giderebilmek amacıyla bu çalışmada Corrado vd. (2004)’ün ekonom...
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İşletmelerin paydaşlarına sunduğu bilgilerin muhasebenin temel ilkeleri doğrultusunda güvenilir, karşılaştırılabilir, ihtiyaca uygun, anlaşılır, tarafsız, tutarlı, ihtiyatı elden bırakmayan ve tam bir açıklamaya yer verecek şekilde bütünlük içerisinde olması doğru ve dürüst bir resmin mali tablo kullanıcılarına sunulması noktasında hayati bir önem...
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Bu çalışmanın ilk amacı 2008 Küresel krizin BİST imalat sektöründeki işletmelerin finansal performansına etkisini araştırmaktır. İkinci amacı, yönetim kurulunda bağımsız üye bulunmasının finansal performansa ve kriz dönemindeki finansal performansa etkisini araştırmaktır. Çalışmada, 2008 Küresel krizin işletmelerin finansal performansını negatif yö...
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Yönetim kurulu ve üst yönetimde yer alan kadınların finansal performansı pozitif yönde etkilediğine ilişkin teoriler ve ampirik bulgular mevcuttur. Çalışmamızda, yönetim kurulunda yer alan kadın üyelerin oranının, kadın yönetim kurulu başkanının, yönetim kurulundaki bağımsız üyelerin içindeki kadın üyelerin oranının, üst yönetimde yer alan kadın üy...
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This paper investigate the occurence of earnings management by applying Benford's Law in selected accounts. We find that some numbers are manipulated in third and fourth digits of the selected accounts. However, we find no evidence that managers engaged to manage earnings upward (downward); because, we did not observe high(low) significance freguen...
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Bu çalışmada, yatırımcıların bir işletmeye yatırım yapma kararı alırken göz önünde bulundurduğu ve “-0- eşiğini aşma” olarak adlandırılan; o işletmenin kâr elde etmiş olması beklentisini, işletmelerin karşılama eğiliminde olup olmadığı araştırılmıştır. 146 işletmenin, 2000-2011 yılları arasında 4 çeyrek dönem finansal raporları kullanılarak toplamd...

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