Auditors fulfill a crucial societal role by increasing the credibility of financial reports, which requires that appropriate audit quality be provided and auditors are factually independent and perceived as such. So far, regulators and researchers have focused on a few measures for improving...

Dieses fundierte Lehrbuch führt in kompakter Form in die Grundlagen der doppelten Buchführung ein. Nach einem kurzen theoretischen Überblick und einer Einführung von Inventur, Inventar und Bilanz stellen die Autoren die elementaren Buchungsarten (Bestandsbuchungen und Erfolgsbuchungen)...

Big Four accounting firms increasingly focus on non-audit services. Failures in these services may impair the accounting firm’s reputation as an auditor. They may negatively affect the Big Four, its clients, and client stakeholders. From the perspective of critical scholarship, it is vital to...