The Impact of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems on the Effectiveness of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

Today there is a rapidly changing business world. Therefore most of the growing Enterprises are moving towards Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in order to integrate their business units. Implementing this systems have a great impact on the performance of that Enterprises. The objective of this paper is investigating the impact of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems on the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting. The sample include 120 Firm-yaer observations during 2008 to 2012. The hyposis tested using probit regression model. The result suggest that ERP - implementing firms are less likely to report internal control weaknesses (ICW) than a matched control sample of non – implementing firm. Furthermore firms with M&A activity، losses، lower market value، lower ERP age are less likely to relate to lower level of internal control weaknesses.