Auditors use professional judgment to collect and evaluate evidence to issue an opinion on the fairness of a business entity’s financial statements. Prior research finds that international auditing firms should consider cultural aspects when planning an audit examination and that the...

Like all administrative agencies, the Internal Revenue Service is given a fair amount of authority to enforce the laws enacted by Congress. Taxpayers often question the amount of authority granted to the Internal Revenue Service, and whether such authority is abused. In some situations this...

This paper presents a statistical analysis confirming the former empirical findings that positive differences between the growth rates of P-Score and Z-score appears in financial statement data of companies involved in major financial fraud. The paper examines firms that engaged in fraud in the...

This study empirically examines the supply side of the market for non-audit services. In particular, a model for the supply side of the market for non-audit services is developed. This model is then tested using audit and non-audit fee data from Fijian listed companies from the year 1980 to...

This article models the detection and prediction of managerial fraud in the financial statements of Tunisian banks. The methodology used consist of examining a battery of financial ratios used by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as indicators of the financial situation of a bank....

This paper examines whether corporation governance structure has influence on internal audit report lag (IARL). The study studies a sample of 1244 observations from Year 2008 to Year 2011, obtained from Shenzhen Stock Exchange in China. Regression analysis indicates that firms, with fewer...

Auditors expressing unqualified audit opinions and asserting going concern for companies that subsequently fail is regarded as audit failure and results in considerable disapproval of the auditing profession. Prior research has suggested that corporate failure models, as an analytical procedure,...