The auditing environment continues to change in dramatic ways, and university graduates entering the profession must be prepared for a high standard of responsibility. Here are only three examples of these changes: ● ● ● The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) have issued clarifications tha…
We are delighted to present Jonas Tritschler's dissertation on Audit Quality. Auditing remains a very active research area in financial economics and account- ing. Much of the research focuses on audit quality, materiality, error rates, audit partner tenure, and auditor experience. Although there has been a convergence of thought among regulators and enforcement agencies on characteristics …
Ā is book is designed to meet the increasing need of audit and control professionals to understand information technology (IT) a nd t he controls required to m anage t his key resource. Ā i s book can be used by control and audit professionals and for both introductory and advanced courses in IT audit. Ā is book supports the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBI…
ention auditing to the layman and the expected response is a glazed look. It is not a sexy subject. So why write a book about it, and who would want to read it? But start to talk about risk, governance, business improvement, adding value and many other aspects of business that have currency in the Boardroom and interest quickens.
The passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOx) in 2002 almost seems like distant history today. That legislation became effective after a series of accounting scandals led to the failure of several then major corporations, such as Enron and WorldCom, the conviction and imprisonment of mul- tiple key executives, and the failure of the major public accounting firm, Arthur Andersen. With a time-…
Hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide, in all activ- ity sectors, have put into practice the management system approach of international standards such as ISO 9000 and ISO 14000. Beyond the quality and environmental performance objectives of these standards, a growing number of organiza- tions are also applying this approach to other management objectives, such as in the area o…
This research report considers service quality and technical quality as components of overall audit quality,and explores their importance to audit firms as a means to help attract and retain high calibre staff as well as to generate sufficient income. It considers the audit expectations gap and service quality and from this develops a model of audit quality based on the existing research l…