Obstacles to improving audit quality with emphasis on identifying faulty procedures

Despite the efforts that have been made so far more efforts are still needed to solve the issues and problems in Audit quality. the method of paying audit fees, the pricing of audit services, the selection of audit institutions and their tenure have been considered in this research. The aim of the research is to evaluate the obstacles to improving audit quality with an emphasis on identifying faulty procedures. The research method includes reviewing related literature, preparing and distributing questionnaires. Obstacles to the improvement of audit quality have been identified in the current research with the participation of 305 auditors working in the accredited audit institutions of the Securities and Exchange Organization through a questionnaire in 1401.In addition to the need to pay attention to ethical principles, the obstacles mentioned in six main groups include; Pricing procedures for audit services and the results of using them, audit fees and how to pay them, how competition between audit institutions and their share of the audit market and the factors affecting it, the manner and conditions of providing various The services and issuing of audit reports by audit institutions, the size of audit institutions and the manner and effects of their integration with each other, the length of tenure of audit institutions and the factors affecting the selection and change of auditors have been classified, and according to the results of the research, the defects in it have been resolved. It can ultimately lead to the improvement of audit quality.