The presence of options in accounting raises the problem of the criteria adopted for choosing one policy or another. The freedom to choose the accounting policies, controled by the management of the company in its intention to achieve the planned objective, leads to a sellective choice for...

This paper presents a new approach in evaluating risks of material misstatements in financial audit using dependency structure matrices (DSM). This perspective allows the identification of significant audit risks and can be used by audit managers to optimise resource allocation by focusing on...