Regulators have expressed concerns that investors misunderstand auditors’ responsibility to “read and consider” other information in the annual report (e.g., the MD&A), often assuming the entire annual report has been audited. This is particularly a concern in the U.S. where auditors do...

Recent reviews of the academic literature indicate that little is known regarding how users evaluate the materiality levels auditors use or respond to quantitative materiality disclosure. Regulators around the world have taken different stances on whether materiality should, or should not, be...

The amount of estimation uncertainty contained in financial statement items may be obscured from investors, given that all estimates, regardless of their imprecision, are reported as precise figures on the face of the financial statements. Our study examines two disclosures expected to help...

The amount of estimation uncertainty contained in financial statement items may be obscured from investors, given that all estimates, regardless of their imprecision, are reported as precise figures on the face of the financial statements. Our study examines two disclosures expected to help...

We find that when a manager concedes on an initial potential adjustment, auditors place more trust in the manager and propose smaller aggregate adjustments. Furthermore, ingratiation has a marginally positive effect on auditor trust when the manager first concedes. However, our results indicate...

This research note examines whether auditors “link” their entity-level risk assessments to their core business process risk assessments. For auditors who performed a business process analysis of the core business process, there is a positive association between the identification of...

Engagement quality review (EQR) is designed to be a quality control mechanism for improving the quality of audit engagements. This paper updates the findings of Messier, Kozloski and Kochetova-Kozloski (2010) on enforcement actions against engagement quality (EQ) reviewers, especially in light...

This paper reports on the first experimental study to examine how materiality and client pressure affects auditors' judgments of two detected misstatements that have offsetting effects on the client's income. One hundred and forty-three experienced German auditors completed a case that varied...

This paper investigates the potential of using a frequency response mode to reduce the dilution effect of non-diagnostic evidence on auditors' fraud risk judgments. In two experiments, we test one hypothesis and examine a research question related to the dilution effect where response mode...

This study advances several propositions about the effects of time pressure on individuals' belief revisions within a pressure-arousal-effort-performance framework. There is a significant body of research that documents the importance of both time pressure and order effects in an accounting...