During the last several years, a stream of research has evolved that investigates the influence of outcome information on evaluation judgments in an auditor legal liability context. These studies have included judges and jurors and have utilized different cases and scenarios. Our objective in...

Accurately assessing the ability of a financially distressed company to stay in business through the next year is a difficult task at best. Notwithstanding this difficulty, auditors have seemingly been saddled with a large portion of this responsibility for the companies that they audit. Current...

In the following document we provide an extensive synthesis of the academic literature broadly related to reporting by auditors with respect to the issue of going-concern. Our intent is to provide information to the Public Company Oversight Board (PCAOB) that may prove to be useful in their...