This study provides both survey and experimental evidence to consider how the interaction between staff-level auditors and client management may affect the auditors’ perceptions and influence their decisions regarding the collection of audit evidence. During fieldwork, staff-level auditors have extensive interaction with client management. Survey evidence suggests that these staff-level auditor...

Experienced auditors tend to structure their knowledge of financial statement errors with audit objective as the primary organizing dimension and transaction cycle as secondary. Yet, many audit asks are structured in the opposite manner, requiring auditors to assess whether objectives are met for each transaction cycle. Our paper reports the results of an experiment which indicates that this mi...

INTRODUCTION Government audit authorities supervise the implementation of government budgets and evaluate the use of administrative resources to ensure that funding is used wisely, economically, and effectively. A quality audit involves reviewing policies according to international standards and perspectives, and provides insight, predictions, and warnings to related organizations. Such practic...

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This study examines whether perceived ethical climate of the firm, exposure to ethics and moral reasoning have an influence on the ethical judgement of auditors in Malaysia. Analysis suggests that all three factors have positive and significant influence on the ethical judgement of auditors. This study also finds that the moral reasoning of majority of the auditors in Malaysia is contained with...

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...