Moving the Audit Profession Forward

Individual Characteristics and Ethical Whistle-Blowing Intention in Audit Profession

Background: Individuals characteristics including gender, education level, job experience and job rank are affective and significant variables in work ethic. This research try to study this affection on whistle blowing in audit profession. Thus, the aim of this research is to study of gender effect on whistle blowing as an ethical behavior. Method: The research method is descriptive-correlation...

Moving Forward

.......Having reached the end of my second term as editor in chief, the time has come for Micro to move forward to the next phase of its evolution. I am delighted to announce that Dr. Erik Altman from IBM Research is the new Micro EIC. Erik is an accomplished and highly respected industry architect and researcher who has held numerous leadership positions within the computing community. He has ...

Moving forward.

How New Computing Technology Reformed the Audit Profession

This paper describes how the audit profession went through a paradigm restructuring itself, by taking advantage of ICT, which led to a wave of mergers from 1987 to 1998. The paper also presents two cases of fraud; the Kreuger and the Enron affairs. The latter led to the conviction of Arthur Andersen for obstruction of justice, which resulted in the termination of the company’s activities, due t...

Moving Forward into the Future

This is the final issue of Global Spine Journal for 2016. As the year draws to a close, we would like to update our readers, authors, and reviewers with the changes that will be made next year. This issue is also our final issue that we publish with Thieme Publishers. On behalf of the entire Editorial Board,wewould like to thank Thieme for their past services to GSJ and EBSJ over the last 5 yea...