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Auditing standards now mandate that group auditors determine and implement appropriate component materiality amounts, which ultimately affect group audit scope, reliability, and value. However, standards are silent about how these amounts should be determined and methods being used in practice...
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engagements, and often is not communicated to the entire engagement team. We then experimentally investigate whether the explicit … communication of AC support to the entire engagement team (by the partner vs. directly from the AC chair) impacts the skepticism of … auditors. AC support increases skeptical actions when management attitudes towards the engagement team are poor. However …
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always an option. To facilitate multitasking, engagement team communications have extended in-person interactions to computer …
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The Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel (FREP) has been examining financial reporting of companies listed in the regulated market in Germany since 1.7.2005. The paper analyzes the enforcement disclosure quality between 2006 and 2008 by comparing the published activity reports of the panel with...
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We provide evidence on the long standing concern on auditor conflicts of interest from providing non-audit services (NAS) to audit clients by using rarely explored NAS fee data from 1978-80 Using this earlier setting, we find cross-sectional evidence of improved earnings quality when auditors...
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The preparation, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of financial statements of an organization are major functions of the accounting system. This paper therefore, assesses the quality of auditor’s reports in the Nigerian Banking Industry, with a view to ascertaining the level of...
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I argue that external financial reporting quality has at best a 2nd order effect on firm value of U.S. publicly traded companies and that attempts to improve a firm's external reporting quality has a 3rd order effect on these firms' value. Recognizing that external financial reporting quality is...
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