Using a field-based questionnaire administered to practicing auditors, we examine how auditors simultaneously combine the key planning variables, client-level misstatement risk (comprised of inherent risk and control risk) with account-level subjectivity, when utilizing internal audit as a cost...

part PART I: MANAGEMENT CONTROL -- chapter 1 Internal Control and Information Technology -- chapter 2 Case Studies on Internal Control’s Contribution -- chapter 3 Auditing Functions -- chapter 4 Internal and External Audit -- chapter 5 The Board’s Accountability for Audit -- part PART II:...

Offshoring of accounting processes has become a common business practice, pursued by firms to reduce costs and focus on core competencies. However, our understanding about internal controls of these offshored processes is limited. Grounded in theory that is supported by prior literature and...

Responses from 1,059 chief audit executives (CAEs) are used to investigate a number of variables that are theoretically associated with co-sourcing/out-sourcing (COUTing) of internal audit activities. The CAE responses represent Anglo-culture organizations located in Australia, Canada, New...

Section 404 of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX) altered the relationship between auditors and their clients by requiring an external audit of companies’ internal controls. Regulatory guidance is interpreted and applied by external auditors to comply with SOX. The purpose of this paper is to...