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We examine internal auditors' fraud risk decisions in response to variations in audit committee quality and management performance incentives. Using an experimental approach, we find that internal auditors serving in a either a self-assessment role or a due diligence role were sensitive to...
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Prior research has shown that when auditors are aware of overall risk information from procedures performed earlier in the audit, halo effects in subsequent judgments result (e.g., O'Donnell and Schultz 2005). The purpose of this study is to examine whether such effects occur in the context of...
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amongst the board of directors of an issuer for the purpose of overseeing the accounting and financial reporting processes of …
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This descriptive study analyzes deficiency data disclosed in peer review reports of the AICPA's Center for Public Company Audit Firms Peer Review Program (CPCAF PRP). We analyze the reports of the largest 20 triennially inspected firms that have both a PCAOB inspection report and a CPCAF peer...
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Internal audit quality is an issue of great importance to both the internal and external audit professions. PCAOB Auditing Standard No 2 highlights this importance when addressing the reliance that the external auditor can place on the internal audit work product. The study discussed here...
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accounting and controlling: • the creation of models which will accept imperfect information, • the effect of the use of … relationships between the data. Indeed, we have seen that imperfect accounting data has led to a radical reappraisal and extension … of the principal of double- entry accounting in order to obtain fuzzified financial statements. At the same time …
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Au cours de la précédente décennie, le développement considérable des stock-options comme instrument de rémunération incitative a posé, aux Etats-Unis puis au niveau international, le problème de la « reconnaissance » comptable de ces produits dérivés. En effet, n’engendrant aucun...
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accounting model, or the financial conventions which determine how a company’s wealth and income is measured, have been … increasingly called into question. This wide-reaching movement, initiated in the United States by the Financial Accounting … Standards Board (FASB), and internationally by the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC), aims to replace …
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this regard, the key question--is fair value relevant?--can be analysed as follows: do fair value "accounting numbers … the basis and limitations of the traditional accounting model. He analyses then the determining factors in the emergence … users. Lastly, he presents a summary of the empirical studies carried out to assess the usefulness of fair value accounting …
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