Anecdotal evidence suggests that audit clients are automating more internal controls over time. Audit firms customarily respond to their clients’ increasing IT (information technology) risks by including more IT audit specialists in their external audit engagements. But, using IT audit specialists on the audit engagement to examine the IT risks that external financial statement auditors can exa...

Authorship Criteria and Responsibility, Financial Disclosure, Copyright Transfer, and Acknowledgement and Informed Consent Statements Each author (incl. corresponding author) must sign (1) the statement on authorship criteria and responsibility; (2) the statement on financial disclosure; and (3) either the statement of copyright transfer or the statement of federal employment. The corresponding...

In the last decade, high profile financial frauds committed by large companies in both developed and developing countries were discovered and reported. This study compares the performance of five popular statistical and machine learning models in detecting financial statement fraud. The research objects are companies which experienced both fraudulent and non-fraudulent financial statements betw...

We support the Board’s efforts to enhance the disclosures about financial instruments and to converge the disclosure requirements with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, Fair Value Measurements (Statement 157), issued by the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). We believe the proposal to converge with the fair value hierarchy disclosures in Statement 157 is approp...

Fraud is a common phenomenon in business, and according to Section 24 of the Iranian Auditing Standards, it is the fraudulent act of one or more managers, employees, or third parties to derive unfair advantage and any intentional or unlawful conduct. Financial statements are a means of transmitting confidential management information about the<br ...