In another study, Prawitt et al. (2009) examined the association between internal audit quality
(experience and qualification) and earning management. This study obtained sufficient data to
estimate our abnormal accrual models for 528 firm-year observations (218 unique companies) for
fiscal years 2000 to 2005. It used OLS regression to test the association between independent variables
and dependent variable. The finding shows an association between qualification of internal audit and
earning management. As stated above, there is a lack of studies that examined the relationship
between the experience of internal audit and firm performance and as evidenced by Al-Matari et al.
(2012). As such, the current study attempts to re-examine the relationship between the qualification of
internal audit and firm performance. Therefore, the following hypotheses are proposed to be tasted:
H4: There is a positive relationship between qualification of internal audit and firm performance.