Assuring the quality of international auditing is important in the current, globalized business/economic environment. High quality international auditing efforts promote greater confidence in financial statements, and therefore promote greater movement of capital. Ensuring high quality auditing...

This study uses logistic regression analysis to examine the determinants of internal control weakness remediation on a sample of firms that reported internal control weaknesses at the end of fiscal year 2004, and then reported the presence or absence of internal control weaknesses at the end of...

Purpose – Prior literature provides clear evidence that the judgments of experts differ from those of non-experts. For example, Smith and Kida concluded that the extent of common biases that they investigated often are reduced when experts perform job related tasks as compared to students. The...

This study examines the moderating impact of board of director elections and corporate governance on (a) the relationship between discretionary accruals and earnings quality, and (b) the relative value relevance of earnings and book value on stock valuation. The importance of effective...

The public accounting sector of the accounting profession has long been very concerned with the problem of employee recruitment and retention. As early as the 1970’s, the then Big 8 firms funded extensive studies of the determinants of employee turnover. The problem is no less real today....