Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) proposed rules and forms to implement Section 21F of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”), entitled Securities Whistleblower Incentives and Protection, and sought comment thereon. The Dodd-Frank...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the adoption of a business risk audit approach on internal control documentation and testing. Data were collected from senior auditors before and after a change to a new business risk approach to determine if auditors' preferred internal...

Businesses increasingly outsource organizational functions that have financial reporting implications which requires auditors to adjust their risk assessment and audit procedures for this practice. However, PCAOB inspection reports cite deficiencies indicating that external auditors frequently...

The current study examines the effect of fraud training on auditors' ability to identify fraud risk factors. This is important because most auditors have little or no direct experience with fraud; thus, research that investigates the potential effect of indirect experience through training is...