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The Accounting Review. 97:75-97
Auditors often face situations in which acting on their professional obligations comes with potential personal costs. Drawing upon the Theory of Reputation in Organizations, we predict that perceived costs associated with these actions are lower for
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SSRN Electronic Journal.
We extend research examining how PCAOB inspections impact auditor behavior by identifying “inspection focus” (i.e., the PCAOB’s explicit identification of inspection focal areas) as a critical component of inspection risk and report the results
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The Accounting Review. 93:145-163
Recent research reveals that accruals-based earnings management (AEM) is decreasing while real earnings management (REM) is increasing, suggesting the correlation is due to regulatory scrutiny. However, based on Correspondent Inference Theory, we pre
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The Accounting Review. 92:145-160
In this study, we examine how information foraging by auditors affects audit evidence collection in two distinct contexts, and show how a small change to audit methodology mitigates the potentially harmful effects of foraging. Information Foraging Th
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AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory. 36:135-149
SUMMARY We examine the impact of partner identification, a regulation proposed by the PCAOB and contested by the audit profession, on audit partners' judgments. Based on accountability theory (e.g., Lerner and Tetlock 1999) and professionalism litera
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AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory. 36:151-168
SUMMARY We report the results of an experiment that examines how the salience of post-audit reviews (PARs; i.e., U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board [PCAOB] inspections and public accounting firms' internal quality reviews [IQRs]) affects
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Current Issues in Auditing. 10:A38-A61
SUMMARY This study examines the work environment in the audit division of large public accounting firms. Based on 18 semi-structured interviews (eight partners and ten staff auditors currently or recently employed by large public accounting firms), w
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AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory. 35:39-56
SUMMARY Real earnings management (REM) is an increasingly common method of manipulating financial results, yet little research examines auditors' perceptions of and responses to REM. Using the auditor comfort framework (Pentland 1993; Carrington and
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The Accounting Review. 90:1969-1994
Based on data collected from 616 experienced financial officers who use U.S. GAAP or IFRS and are domiciled in the U.S., Europe, or Asia, we examine how reporting standards (U.S. GAAP versus IFRS) and domicile (U.S. versus non-U.S.) affect earnings m
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Accounting and the Public Interest. 14:48-71
The PCAOB conducts inspections of public company auditors to improve audit quality and build investors' confidence in the quality of financial reporting (PCAOB 2010f). While there is some evidence that the inspection reports could be improving actual