From late 2008 to 2017, oil and equity returns were more positively correlated than in other periods. In addition, we show that both oil and equity returns became more responsive to macroeconomic news. We provide empirical evidence and theoretical justification that these changes resulted from...

This paper introduces an approach to the assessment of financial statement fraud risk and audit program planning and illustrates its application by simulating its use in the 1999 audit of Olympus. The approach incorporates a rigorous approach to assessing risk and current standards and...

This article presents an overview of the textual analysis of companies’ regulatory filings. More specifically, it provides a discussion on readability indices, and new developments in this area of research. Next, the article discusses six different risk sentiment metrics, one by Feng Li (2006)...

The primary purpose of this paper is to advance research in internal audit (IA) evaluation by developing an IA assessment model that considers interrelationships among specific factors used by external auditors when evaluating the strength of the IA function. The model is built on three factors...