Findings indicate that a Shumway method of decomposition of individual ratios is more explanatory of the existence of going concerns than a summary Altman Z score. Obfuscation of financial statement information appears to occur when going concern footnotes are reported

Initial public offering (IPO) companies are exempt from Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, leaving investors to assess the quality of an IPO company's internal controls, which affect the quality of management-provided financial information, without an opinion on internal controls...

This paper examines factors affecting non-accounting business professionals' willingness to work in internal auditing. In a 2 x 6 experiment with 502 participants from across the country, we find that, in contrast to prior research examining accountants, business professionals have relatively...

Objective –The emergence of the ASEAN Single Window has triggered the need for higher audit quality in ASEAN countries, including Indonesia. A recent study conducted in Indonesia reveals that the reputation of auditing firms, as rated by clients and users, and auditor's competence, as rated by...

Objective – This study proposes to investigate an auditor's works by using the model on the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), with the inducement of intervention by a supervisor, that influences an auditor's attitudes. The study uses the TRA proposed by Fishben and Ajzen (1975) to predict and...

This research note examines whether auditors “link” their entity-level risk assessments to their core business process risk assessments. For auditors who performed a business process analysis of the core business process, there is a positive association between the identification of...

An important aspect of the audit environment is the financial reporting that needs to be verified. In May 2015, the International Accounting Standards Board [IASB] issued an exposure draft [ED] for a new conceptual framework [CF] of financial reporting under International Financial Reporting...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of auditor workload compression on the likelihood of changes to the busy season client portfolio of an audit firm. We find evidence of a positive association between workload compression and the likelihood of changes to the constituents of...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the market for audit services for publicly traded companies operating in the US for-profit (FP) healthcare sector. Complex national and local healthcare laws and regulations suggest the importance of assessing fee effects of joint national-level and city...

This study investigates whether workload pressures, as proxied by the audit busy season (i.e., December fiscal year-end date) and auditor workload compression (i.e., relative concentration of companies with the same fiscal year-end date in an auditor's client portfolio), affect audit quality....