The objective of this study is to provide additional evidence regarding the effect of ambiguity on auditors' and investors' judgments when they evaluate managers' disclosures about loss contingencies. Inspired by Nelson and Kinney (1997), we conducted an experiment where auditors and investors...

Throughout this study the term “expectation gap” refers to the difference between (1) what the public and financial statement users believe the responsibilities of auditors to be, and (2) what auditors believe their responsibilities are, as in McEnroe and Martens, 2001 (hereafter MM 2001)....

This study examines practitioners' perceptions of uses of stock option compensation expense. Specifically, Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (SFAS) No. 123(R) requires firms to report the estimated fair value of stock option compensation as an expense over the employees' required...