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This paper examines the materiality guidance for eight of the largest U.S. and international public accounting firms …. Knowledge of how materiality guidance is integrated into a firm's methodology is important for accounting and auditing …
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Consulting service lines have again become a focus for the Big 4 accounting firms. Since SOX prohibits the provision of …
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Cloud computing is a new technological trend that since the last decade brings challenges in computed accounting, such … accounting software enables its users a real time access to business finances, easy set up and easy use, access to information … frequency internet. As accounting data are very valuable, security, such as encryption of data, granting access to the data and …
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The study reveals that unlike SAIs from more affluent countries, the majority of SAIs from poorer countries opt to include in their audits more frequently also elements of the international comparison. The paper also brings attention to the fact that about half of the examined SAIs adopted...
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In this paper, we examine the association between the contents of the expanded audit report, which was adopted in 2013, and insider trading in the United Kingdom. Pre/post analyses indicate that following adoption of the expanded report, the likelihood and volume of insider trading in the period...
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In the past six years, the average number of industries (2-digit SIC) serviced by audit offices in the United States has grown by 20% and the number of industries where the office has specialization has fallen by 40% (Data Source: Audit Analytics). This suggests a trend away from specialization...
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indicate that the RMM disclosures reliably capture the uncertainty in accounting measurements. In additional analysis, we find …
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In this study I examine the relationship between the auditor's going concern opinion and management's forward-looking disclosures in the Management's Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) section of 10-K filings. The analysis is two-fold and addresses whether the presence of a going concern opinion is...
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Recent proposals on audit regulation, whether in the EU or by the PCAOB, have been motivated by efforts to increase audit quality. However, there does not exist any generally agreed upon definition of audit quality. This paper aims to critically assess the status quo of the discussion regarding...
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studying primary source materials from the GLCC, we found that the company created an elaborate accounting system and conducted …
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