Social auditing both as a research topic and a business field has a vested interest to resort to a human capital based analysis. The first part of this article sets the goal to demonstrate how the concept of human capital is of paramount importance for social auditing. The case for human capital...

This paper provides .eld experimental evidence on the effects of monitoring in a context where workers can engage in various forms of counterproductive behaviour and only one of them is monitored and incentivised. We hire students to do a job for us (identifying euro coins) for which they are...

We provide field experimental evidence of the effects of monitoring in a context where productivity is multi-dimensional and only one dimension is monitored and incentivised. We hire students to do a job for us. The job consists of identifying euro coins. We study the effects of monitoring and...

La investigaci¢n es novedosa en cuanto se ocupa de instituciones de naturaleza peculiar como las Cajas, que combinan rasgos propios de las fundaciones con los de las entidades de cr‚dito. De otro lado, se refiere a Espa¤a, pa¡s de ?civil law?, con una tradicional menor protecci¢n de los...

The past few years have seen a growing trend towards the focus on audit liability. In the UK, the Company Law Reform Bill which became the Companies Act 2006, has removed the previously existing limits on auditor liability and compelled an agreement between the company and the auditor. As well...

Responsibility for preventing and detecting fraud rest with management entities. Although the auditor is not and cannot be held responsible for preventing fraud and errors, in your work, he can have a positive role in preventing fraud and errors by deterring their occurrence. The auditor should...

We analyze corporate fraud in a model where managers have superior information but, due to private benefits from empire building, are biased against liquidation. This may induce them to misreport information and even bribe auditors when liquidation would be value-increasing. To restrain fraud,...

This paper presents the main principles applicable in audit activity. Those people involve in audit activities are obliged to respect these principles, therefore engaging themselves in the achievement of ethical and legitimate objectives of the company.

In this study, we expand on several previous studies related to the materiality judgments and the auditor's propensity to issue a going-concern opinion to financially troubled but non-bankrupt companies. We test the auditor's materiality thresholds by investigating whether there is any...

In order to reveal the ‘trusty image‘ of the financial position, the assets, the liabilitiesand of the performance of an entity, it is necessary to adopt, know, understand and/or to apply thecorresponding accounting policies. In addition, in order to accomplish this objective an...