Auditing standards direct auditors to consider business risk and other risk factors when they evaluate the overall risk of material misstatement during the planning phase of an audit. Large audit firms generally use either a strategic-systems approach (SSA) or a transaction-focused approach...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of performance feedback and client importance on auditors' self- and public-focused ethical judgments. Design/methodology/approach – An experiment is conducted in which 71 auditors are assigned to one of four conditions created...