The utilisation of generalized audit software (GAS) by external auditors

In the Name of Independence: with Regard to Practicing Non-Audit Service by External Auditors

External auditors are very important for third partite because they add credibility to financial statements and third party can make decision in accord of financial statement audited. In recent years, the auditing and accounting profession faced scrutiny because of auditing scandals. Recent high profile accounting controversies such as Enron and World have highlighted the continuing debate abou...

The drivers of audit quality: auditors’ perceptions

Employing Generalized Audit Software in the Financial Services Sector: Challenges and Opportunities

Computer Assisted Audit Techniques (CAATs) encompass a range of computerized techniques that internal and external auditors use to facilitate their audit objectives. One of the most important CAATs is generalized audit software (GAS), which is a class of packaged software that allows auditors to interrogate a variety of databases, application software and other sources and then conduct analyses...

The Effects of Audit Methodology on the Development of Auditors’ Knowledge of the Client’s Business

This study examines the differences between strategic systems audit approach compared with traditional based audit approach and its impact on development of auditors’ knowledge of the client’s business, has been discussed. Strategic systems audit approach advocates argue that this approach creates a better development of auditors’ knowledge of the client’s business than the traditional-based au...

Do External Financial Statement Auditors Sufficiently Adjust Their Audit Plans for Automated-Control Deficiencies?

Shelton (1999) found that experience, based on rank, mitigates the influence of less-thandiagnostic evidence in going concern assessments. But, numerous studies (e.g., Abdolmohammadi and Wright 1987) question the external validity of studies that use rank to determine experience. I suspect that specialized domain experience is a better measure because all auditor ranks do not have procedural kn...