the main purpose of this paper is survy of factors associated with reliance of external auditors on entenal adutors work , reliance on internal auditors work has significant influence on cost saving and obtaining more services to client with the same cost. optimal utilization of internal audit work can improve both the efficiency and the effectiveness of external audits and can enhance the valu...

In this paper, we demonstrate that bad audit behavior is transmitted through the teamwork experience of individual auditors. We find that auditors who have previously worked in a team (team auditors) with those who are sanctioned by the regulators for audit failure (contagious auditors) are more likely to issue lenient audit opinions, and their audited accounting numbers are more likely to be d...

this study aims at investigating the relationship between age and gender of auditors and their judgment and decision. population of this study includes dependent auditors engaged in audit firms member of iranian association of certified public accountants (iacpa). random sampling was used and the questionnaireswere distributed among 100 auditors. the methodology of the study is descriptive-surv...

Corporate accounting failures and regulatory proceedings that led to the enactment of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 increased the scrutiny of auditors. We investigate whether these events resulted in a change in auditor behavior with respect to going concern reporting. Generally speaking, we find that non-Big N auditors became more conservative while Big N auditors became more accurate. Specif...

In the model there are two types of financial auditors with identical technology, one of which is endowed with a prior reputation for honesty. We characterize conditions under which there exists a “two-tier equilibrium” in which “reputable” auditors refuse bribes offered by clients for fear of losing reputation, while “disreputable” auditors accept bribes because even persistent refusal does no...

This paper analyzes political agency with endogenous information collection and revelation by third-party auditors. While increasing incentives for auditors to provide information straightforwardly improves political control, a small amount of pro-incumbent bias can also be useful for maintaining high levels of control. When the equilibrium level of control is high, most investigations uncover ...

The purpose of the current study is to examine the degree of reliance external auditors are willing to place on the work of the internal audit function (IAF) when the IAF's objectivity might be compromised. Experienced external auditors (N = 142) participated in a 2 (reporting relationship: audit committee of the board of directors [ACBOD] or chief finance officer [CFO]) by 2 (IAF involvement i...

Automated control weaknesses are associated with defects in computer hardware or computer applications. AU 319 does not require auditors to add professionals with specialized skills in automated controls (or IT audit specialists) to the audit engagement. Auditors may encounter a material automated control weakness and adjust their audit plan without the assistance of an IT audit specialists. Th...

Audit-team specialists (valuation specialists employed by the audit firm) who evaluate a subset of the assumptions integral to a complex estimate often include caveats on otherwise-clean results to communicate reservations about certain assumptions to auditors. Although caveats can contain interpretation that may improve auditors’ judgments about estimates, auditors do not uniformly view caveat...

SYNOPSIS: Earnings management remains a popular topic of debate and discussion among investors, regulators, analysts, and the public. One mechanism that might mitigate earnings management is auditors’ industry expertise. Using a large sample of clients of Big 6 auditors, this research examines the association between auditor industry expertise, measured in terms of both auditor market share in ...