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How better client service performance affects auditors' willingness to challenge management's preferred accounting 更好的客户服务绩效如何影响审计师挑战管理层偏好会计的意愿

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2022.101377

Michael A. Ricci

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引用次数: 3

Organizational responses to multiple logics: Diversity, identity and the professional service firm 组织回应多重逻辑:多元化、认同与专业服务公司

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2022.101336

Fiona Anderson-Gough , Carla Edgley , Keith Robson , Nina Sharma

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引用次数: 8

Conscious and nonconscious goal pursuit in multidimensional tasks 多维任务中有意识和无意识的目标追求

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2022.101376

Joanna Andrejkow , Leslie Berger , Lan Guo

引用次数: 1

Accounting and the territorialization of markets: A field study of the Colorado cannabis market 会计和市场的属地化:科罗拉多州大麻市场的实地研究

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2022.101351

Daniel E. Martinez , Dane Pflueger , Tommaso Palermo

引用次数: 3

Death is a law: Death of former colleagues and management forecasts 死亡是一条规律:前同事的死亡和管理层的预测

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2022.101350

Yu Flora Kuang , Leye Li , Louise Yi Lu , Bo Qin

引用次数: 1

The effects of audit committee ties and industry expertise on investor judgments—Extending Source Credibility Theory 审计委员会关系和行业专业知识对投资者判断的影响——延伸来源可信度理论

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2022.101352

Jeffrey R. Cohen , Lisa Milici Gaynor , Ganesh Krishnamoorthy , Arnold M. Wright

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引用次数: 6

Financial priming, psychological distance, and recognizing financial misreporting as an ethical issue: The role of financial reporting responsibility 财务启动、心理距离和承认财务误报是一个道德问题:财务报告责任的作用

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2022.101349

Nicholas C. Hunt , Mary B. Curtis , Jessica M. Rixom

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引用次数: 3

Do auditors’ incentives affect materiality assessments of prior-period misstatements? 审计师的激励会影响前期错报的重要性评估吗?

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2021.101332

Brant Christensen , Roy Schmardebeck , Timothy Seidel

{"title":"Do auditors’ incentives affect materiality assessments of prior-period misstatements?","authors":"Brant Christensen , Roy Schmardebeck , Timothy Seidel","doi":"10.1016/j.aos.2021.101332","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aos.2021.101332","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We examine whether auditors' incentives affect materiality assessments of prior-period misstatements. Interviews with global network firm partners reveal consistency across firms in the process used to assess prior-period misstatements and highlight points in the process where judgments are most susceptible to auditors’ conscious or subconscious biases. In related empirical tests, we find that auditors assess misstatements as less material (i.e., misstatements are disclosed less prominently) when auditors face greater engagement risk (comprised of the risk of litigation and reputation loss) or have greater incentives to please important clients. These effects only occur when auditor incentives to avoid further litigation or client losses within an audit office are most salient and when the quantitative magnitude of the misstatement is in a range subject to greater professional judgment. Thus, we identify boundary conditions on the extent to which auditor incentives affect materiality judgments. Finally, additional tests suggest that neither local engagement partners nor professional practice partners are immune from these incentives. Our study should be informative to audit firms when designing and updating quality control structures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48379,"journal":{"name":"Accounting Organizations and Society","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 101332"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46827333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Managing the trade-off between autonomy and task interdependence in creative teams: The role of organizational-level cultural control 管理创造性团队中自主性和任务相互依赖之间的权衡:组织层面文化控制的作用

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2022.101347

Isabella Grabner , Aleksandra Klein , Gerhard Speckbacher

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引用次数: 11

Budgeting and employee stress in times of crisis: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic 危机时期的预算和员工压力:来自Covid-19大流行的证据

IF 4.7 2区管理学

Accounting Organizations and Society Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2022.101346

David S. Bedford , Roland F. Speklé , Sally K. Widener

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引用次数: 19