Web 2.0 applications are continuously moving into the corporate mainstream. Each new development brings its own threats or new ways to deliver old attacks. The objective of this study is to develop a framework to identify the security issues an organisation is exposed to through Web 2.0...

A main issue in the audit process is the risk faced by the decision makers in every aspect of an audit process decision. The decision makers’ risk behaviour and their attitude towards risk is considered to be central to the way business risk, in general, and audit risk, in particular, is...

A highly qualitative financial reporting refers to the publication of accounting information complying with the requirements of the reporting framework and generally, they must be transparent, intelligible, relevant, credible and comparable. Based on the results of the theoretical research...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the firm-level factors effect on the audit pricing in China and Pakistan. For this purpose, we used the panel data of 160 firms of each country of study for the period from 2005 to 2011. First, we run the combined model for two countries and observed...

One of the major roles in promoting accounting convergence is played by big accounting firms (Big 4). The objective of this paper is in this context to analyze and question the role of big auditing firms in developing and implementing IFRSs worldwide, in order to better understand the...

There has been some controversy regarding the burden that the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 (SOX 404) casts on American public companies and whether the benefits outweigh the costs of compliance. Starting with November 15, 2004, Section 404 of the Act requires all accelerated firms (with at least...

Because of the globalization trend and of the need to keep pace with changes in today’s changing environments, audit organizations are extending their teleworking facilities, given the multiple benefits both to auditors and to audit companies. The main purpose of this paper is to emphasize the...

This study seeks insights into the determinants of the acceptance decision made by Tunisian auditors. Through measurement scales of the auditors’ perception of the decision‘s factors, the Factors Analysis highlights the decision‘s attributes. In our study, we used questionnaire surveys...

This study investigates voluntary demand for auditing by Australian farm businesses, a significant but relatively unexplored segment of the economy. Most farms operate as family partnerships or sole proprietors and we thus focus on incentives to audit arising from internal sources...