This paper examines the accounting and auditing practices in non-governmental organizations. It seeks to understand accounting processes and reporting practices in non-governmental organizations. Nongovernmental organizations have become important institutions in world affairs but accounting...

Prior research has estimated piecemeal the determinants of audit fees, non-audit services fees and abnormal accruals. Intuition, informal analysis, and a variety of theories of various aspects of auditor-client interaction suggest that audit fees, nonaudit fees, and abnormal accruals are jointly...

Prior research has estimated piece-meal the determinants of audit fees, non-audit fees and abnormal accruals. Intuition, informal analysis, and a variety of theories suggest that audit fees, non-audit fees, and abnormal accruals are jointly determined. We address this endogeneity issue by...

The article is dedicated to the topic of financial reporting of the economic results of universities in relation to their financing. The article defines basic issues and problems in the area: identification of and distinction between the various activities of publicly financed universities, the...

We argue on theoretical grounds that obligatory compliance with stricter financial reporting rules (e.g. the US Sabanes-Oxley Act) may entail important unintended consequences. Paradoxically, the amount of misreporting may increase because corporate boards spend more valuable resources...

This article examines the private mechanisms used to safeguard quality in auditing, with a view to defining rules capable of facilitating the performance of market forces. An outline is given of a general theory of private quality assurance in auditing, based on the use of quasi-rents to...

Se tratan los modelos bayesianos biparamétricos para el cálculo de cotas del error total en una auditoría en el contexto de los diferentes modelos estadísticos desarrollados en la literatura contable. En particular, en este artículo se estudia la robustez de la (discutible) hipótesis de...

The provision of non-audit services by auditors to their audit clients reduces total costs, increases technical competence and motivates more intense competition. Furthermore, these services do not necessarily damage auditor independence nor the quality of non-audit services. This assessment...

This exploratory study of the internal audit in the public sector in function, points out the need for the involvement of public sector entities, showing that in its role has traditionally focused mainly on evaluating internal control and not on the process of risk management and corporate...

Research Question - Do external auditors in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) perceive the ease of use and usefulness of Machine Learning (ML)? Motivation - This study aims to investigate external auditors' perceptions of the ease of use and usefulness of Machine Learning in auditing in the UAE. In...