Auditors are the gatekeepers to the public securities markets and their independence is central to the effectiveness of auditors as gatekeepers. Our general interest is on independence and we investigate how financial and non-financial incentives affect choices made by an auditor-gatekeeper...

The objective of this research is to articulate a decision-making foundation for the systems audit approach. Under this audit approach, the auditor first gains an understanding of the audited economic environment, strategy, and business processes and then forms expectations about its...

I report the results of an experiment designed to investigate the influence of noncredible communications and group affiliation on the formation of self-serving bias in an auditing trust game. I find that manager-subjects use noncredible communications (i.e., a message communicating their intent...

Incentives affect the manner in which auditors conduct their audits and one important research question is how different types of incentives affect behavior. The objectives of this paper are to examine how auditors' intrinsic motivation could be augmented by their participation in developing the...