Additionally, Prawitt, Smith and Wood (2009) examined the association between internal
audit quality (experience and qualification) and earnings management. This study obtained sufficient
data to estimate abnormal accrual models for 528 firm-year observations (218 unique companies) for
the fiscal years 2000 to 2005. It used OLS regression to test the association between independent
variables and dependent variable. The finding shows that a relationship between experience of internal
audit and earning management.
As mentioned above, there is a lack of studies examining the relationship between the
experience of internal audit and firm performance. Moreover, Al-Matari et al. (2012) recommended
the re-examination of the relationship between the experience of internal audit and firm performance.
Therefore, this study proposes the following.
H3: There is a positive relationship between the experience of internal audit and firm performance