Prior research has documented the continued existence of an expectation gap, defined as the divergence between the public's and the profession's conceptions of auditor's duties, despite the auditing profession's attempt to adopt standards and practices to close this gap. In this paper, we...

Identity theft is a rampant problem in the United States. It occurs when one's personal information is stolen for the purpose of impersonating that person, making unauthorized purchases, taking money from bank accounts, opening new lines of credit with the stolen information, or using that...

The aim of this paper is to increase external auditors' knowledge about earnings management and help them spot the difference between earnings management and financial reporting fraud. A thorough literature review was undertaken to achieve the paper's aim. The secondary data used in this paper...

We surveyed 194 experienced, nonprofessional investors to examine the relations between their perceptions of the frequency of financial statement fraud in the economy, their use of financial statement information, the importance they place on conducting their own fraud risk assessments, and...

This study explores two potential safeguards against liability when auditors exercise professional skepticism, but do not detect a fraud: (1) a firm policy requiring a specific level of professional skepticism in high-risk audit areas and (2) providing jurors with key differences between the...

Prior research finds that companies committing fraud exhibit large inconsistencies between reported revenue growth and growth in revenue-related nonfinancial measures (e.g., number of stores, employees, patents). However, prior research also suggests that auditors, on average, are not adept at...

This paper introduces an architecture of fraud in accounting by explicating the nature of fraud in the accounting environment, providing some theoretical explanations of the phenomenon from the field of criminology, and exploring some outcome situations arising from corporate fraud

Esta investigación examina cómo el conocimiento cultural del país en el que está localizada una empresa afecta la percepción de los auditores en un ambiente de planificación de una auditoría (controles internos y la posibilidad de riesgo de fraude). El análisis utiliza las dimensiones de...

We surveyed 194 experienced, nonprofessional investors to examine the relations between their perceptions of the frequency of financial reporting fraud, their use of financial statement information, the importance they place on conducting their own fraud risk assessments, and their use of fraud...

Accounting fraud is a global concern representing a significant threat to the financial system stability due to the resulting diminishing of the market confidence and trust of regulatory authorities. Several tricks can be used to commit accounting fraud, hence the need for non-static regulatory...