Download or read book Judgment Versus Choice Accountability Demands and the Auditor s Evidence Search Strategy written by Cynthia W. Turner and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines two elements of the audit decision environment that may influence the auditor's decision strategy: the nature of the task (judgment or choice), and the presence of accountability demands. Judgment involves the explicit assignment of a particular value to an attribute under examination. Choice is the selection of a course of action over other alternative actions. Accountability is the expected requirement to justify one's position to significant others. Recent work in decision- making literature suggests that judgment and choice are not equivalent tasks. This work suggests that judgment, when compared to choice, is characterized to be more time-demanding and cognitively demanding (e.g., Tversky 1972; Einhorn and Hogarth 1981). Recent work in audit judgment literature suggests that the influence of accountability demands likely depends, at least in part, on the perceived preferences of the individual to whom the auditor is accountable (Peecher 1996). Eighty auditor-participants completed two audit tasks -- an accounts receivable collectibility review and an inventory obsolescence review. The auditors were randomly assigned to one of six experimental conditions created by crossing three levels of accountability (no accountability, credence-inducing, and skepticism-inducing) and two levels of response tasks (judgment and choice). Similar to Peecher (1996), credence-inducing preferences are characterized as preferences of a reviewing manager who is concerned with auditors who undertake, without adequate justification, costly investigations of unusual account balance fluctuations. Skepticism-inducing preferences are characterized as preferences of a reviewing manager who is concerned with auditors who accept, without adequatejustification, client-provided explanations of unusual account balance fluctuations. The results of this study indicate that auditors who make judgments evaluate more evidence and expend more time than those who make choices. Further, auditors who are held accountable to a reviewer possessing skepticism-inducing preferences evaluate more evidence and follow a more exhaustive search strategy than those who are not.
Download or read book Judgment versus choice Accountability Demands and the Auditor s Evidence Search Strategy written by Cynthia Althea Williams and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Judgment and Decision Making Research in Accounting and Auditing written by Robert H. Ashton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-29 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and comprehensive study on behavioural decision-making within the field of accounting.
Download or read book Government Auditing Standards 2018 Revision written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audits provide essential accountability and transparency over government programs. Given the current challenges facing governments and their programs, the oversight provided through auditing is more critical than ever. Government auditing provides the objective analysis and information needed to make the decisions necessary to help create a better future. The professional standards presented in this 2018 revision of Government Auditing Standards (known as the Yellow Book) provide a framework for performing high-quality audit work with competence, integrity, objectivity, and independence to provide accountability and to help improve government operations and services. These standards, commonly referred to as generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS), provide the foundation for government auditors to lead by example in the areas of independence, transparency, accountability, and quality through the audit process. This revision contains major changes from, and supersedes, the 2011 revision.
Download or read book Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making written by Derek J. Koehler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making is a state-of-the art overview of current topics and research in the study of how people make evaluations, draw inferences, and make decisions under conditions of uncertainty and conflict. Contains contributions by experts from various disciplines that reflect current trends and controversies on judgment and decision making. Provides a glimpse at the many approaches that have been taken in the study of judgment and decision making and portrays the major findings in the field. Presents examinations of the broader roles of social, emotional, and cultural influences on decision making. Explores applications of judgment and decision making research to important problems in a variety of professional contexts, including finance, accounting, medicine, public policy, and the law.
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Download or read book Journal of Accounting Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 9th- Annual conference on research in accounting, held at the University of Chicago.
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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Behavioural Accounting Research written by Theresa Libby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behavioural research is well established in the social sciences, and has flourished in the field of accounting in recent decades. This far-reaching and reliable collection provides a definitive resource on current knowledge in this new approach, as well as providing a guide to the development and implementation of a Behavioural Accounting Research project. The Routledge Companion to Behavioural Accounting Research covers a full range of theoretical, methodological and statistical approaches relied upon by behavioural accounting researchers, giving the reader a good grounding in both theoretical perspectives and practical applications. The perspectives cover a range of countries and contexts, bringing in seminal chapters by an international selection of behavioural accounting scholars, including Robert Libby and William R. Kinney, Jr. This book is a vital introduction for Ph.D. students as well as a valuable resource for established behavioural accounting researchers.
Download or read book Government Auditing Standards written by Government Accounting Office and published by www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised in 2011. Contains the auditing standards promulgated by the Comptroller General of the United States. Known as the Yellow Book. Includes the professional standards and guidance, commonly referred to as generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS), which provide a framework for conducting high quality government audits and attestation engagements with competence, integrity, objectivity, and independence. These standards are for use by auditors of government entities and entities that receive government awards and audit organizations performing GAGAS audits and attestation engagements.
Download or read book Accountability and Affect in Auditor Judgment written by Brad A. Schafer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines whether auditors' affect toward client management impacts an auditor's objective evaluation of evidence in fraud likelihood judgments. In addition to an overall judgment, this research also explores whether affect impacts all evidence evaluation equally or impacts only certain evidence evaluation in auditors' judgment processes. This research proposes client likeability will impact inexperienced auditors' evidence evaluation through errant attribution to specific evidence statements rather than uniformly through the evaluation process. Accountability and experience are included as potential moderators to the errant attribution. Results indicate that likeability, experience, and accountability interact impacting the overall fraud likelihood judgment. Specifically, inexperienced and non-accountable auditors erroneously include affect in their overall fraud likelihood judgments. For individual evidence assessments, client likeability impacts inexperienced auditors' assessments of specific statements, but not all client provided statements. However, client likeability does not impact experienced auditors individual statement assessments. The implication of these findings suggest that through experience and training, audit professionals gain the ability to identify and exclude irrelevant factors in professional judgment tasks.
Download or read book Judgment and Decision Making in Accounting written by Sarah E. Bonner and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique first edition is the only book on the market that delivers a contemporary synthesis of both psychology and accounting literature related to judgment and decision making. Judgment and Decision Making in Accounting is structured around an innovative framework that provides a unique way of thinking about JDM projects and organizing JDM research. Developed based on many years of teaching and research on accounting JDM, this unique framework succinctly describes the key issues in accounting JDM research, enabling readers to more quickly assimilate the vast material related to those issues. The framework also provides a basis to help readers evaluate their own current JDM research ideas, as well as generate further research questions.
Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Download or read book A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation written by Steven L. Skalak and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent catastrophic business failures have caused some to rethinkthe value of the audit, with many demanding that auditors take moreresponsibility for fraud detection. This book provides forensicaccounting specialists?experts in uncovering fraud?with newcoverage on the latest PCAOB Auditing Standards, the ForeignCorrupt Practices Act, options fraud, as well as fraud in China andits implications. Auditors are equipped with the necessarypractical aids, case examples, and skills for identifyingsituations that call for extended fraud detection procedures.
Download or read book Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policymakers and program managers are continually seeking ways to improve accountability in achieving an entity's mission. A key factor in improving accountability in achieving an entity's mission is to implement an effective internal control system. An effective internal control system helps an entity adapt to shifting environments, evolving demands, changing risks, and new priorities. As programs change and entities strive to improve operational processes and implement new technology, management continually evaluates its internal control system so that it is effective and updated when necessary. Section 3512 (c) and (d) of Title 31 of the United States Code (commonly known as the Federal Managers? Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA)) requires the Comptroller General to issue standards for internal control in the federal government.
Download or read book Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research written by Vicky Arnold and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an empirical research in accounting theory. This book includes content that crosses into the fields of applied psychology, sociology, management science, and economics.
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