Am Beispiel eines neuen, auf einer empirischen Erhebung basierenden Ansatzes zur Personaleinsatzplanung in Wirtschaftsprüfiingsgesellschaften wird die Bedeutung der Integration revidierender Planungskonzepte in Ansätze mit hierarchischer Struktur aufgezeigt. Neu nach einem Planungslauf...

Based upon an empirical survey among the 200 biggest CPA firms in Germany an hierarchical modeling framework for audit-staff scheduling with three levels has been developed. For the second level, the so-called medium-to-short-term planning, a binary optimization model is introduced which is...

This research work is aimed at determining the effectiveness of the Audit Committee (AC), analyzing its impact on the reliability of accounting information issued by spanish listed companies. With this aim, we study whether certain features such as its voluntary or otherwise compulsory...

Die Prüfung des Internen Kontrollsystems (IKS) ist eine der Hauptaufgaben bei Abschlußprüfungen. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht grundlegende Techniken der künstlichen Intelligenz, insbesondere regelbasierte Expertensysteme, auf ihre Eignung zur Unterstützung der Beurteilung des IKS bei...

In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...

In the model there are two types of financial auditors with identical technology, one of which is endowed with a prior reputation for honesty. We characterize conditions under which there exists a "two-tier equilibrium" in which "reputable" auditors refuse bribes offered by clients for fear of...

We study regulation of the auditing profession in a model where audit quality is unobservable and enforcing regulation is costly. The optimal audit standard falls short of the first-best audit quality, and is increasing in the riskiness of firms and in the amount of funding they seek. The model...

Our article integrates the manager’s care in the literature on auditor’s liability. With unobservable efforts, we face a double moral hazard setting. It is well-known that efficient liability rules without punitive damages do not exist under these circumstances. However, we show that the...