Auditors' honesty and skepticism are crucial to their effectiveness as enablers of trust in capital markets. Regulators have recently expressed concerns that audit culture does not sufficiently strengthen these attributes. We overcome significant obstacles to investigate the influence of audit...

Practitioners and regulators are concerned that when auditors perceive management's attitude or character as indicative of low fraud risk, they are not sufficiently sensitive to high levels of incentive or opportunity risks in their overall fraud risk assessments. In this study, we examine...

This study examines whether auditors can effectively use nonfinancial measures to assess the reasonableness of financial performance and, thereby, help detect financial statement fraud (hereafter, fraud). If auditors or other interested parties (e.g., directors, lenders, investors, or...