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We examine whether managers besides the CFO have 'styles' that affect firms' reporting and operating decisions. Following recent studies, we develop a dataset of individual audit committee chairs, CEOs, and CFOs, that tracks their movements across firms and over time. Although audit committee...
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the sake of compliance. Based on an experiment involving 118 audit practitioners, we find that auditors rely more on …
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Whether ethics should be taught and how it should be taught has been questioned by accounting professionals, researchers, and teachers. This experimental study attempts to answer the question and gives further evidence of the beneficial impact of teaching ethics. Participants are sixty students...
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We examine the research literature on audit groups/teams focusing on three main areas: the hierarchical review process, brainstorming as part of the fraud detection planning process, and consultation within firms. We restrict our discussion of these three literatures to judgment and decision...
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experiment using 198 non-professional investors, we manipulated the auditor’s historical PCAOB inspection deficiency rate (low … we conduct a second experiment and alternatively measure auditor trustworthiness as improperly revising the audit … materiality threshold to forego a material adjustment. Lastly, we explore an intervention in a third experiment and find that when …
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This study examined how the combination of an accounting measure and its target number influenced effort allocation decisions. By using an experimental method, we indicated that a positive frame of a task presentation (combination of the accounting measure and its target number) increases...
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We report the results of an experiment which shows that investors' earnings- and investment-related judgments are …
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We report the results of an experiment which shows that investors' earnings- and investment-related judgments are …
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Intuition can lead to more effective decision-making than analysis under certain conditions. This assumption can be regarded as common sense. However, dominant research streams on intuition effectiveness in decision-making conceptualize intuition inadequately, because intuition is considered...
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This study experimentally investigates how a principal uses outcome information in her subjective evaluation of an agent who chooses between alternatives of differing risks, and how outcome bias in the evaluation is related to the agent's risk taking decision. We consider both a situation of...
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