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Friday, August 15, 2025
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Fraud Detection in Focus: What the Latest Research Means for Auditors
This study reviews academic research from 2017–2023 on how auditors identify, assess, and respond to fraud risks in financial audits. It synthesizes findings from over a dozen top-tier journals to provide insights for improving fraud detection.
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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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The Power of Words: How Subtle Language Shifts Boost Fraud Risk Disclosures
This study explores how small changes to the wording of audit fraud inquiries can increase client willingness to disclose fraud risks. Specifically, it tests whether minimizing the seriousness of the inquiry...
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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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AI in Accounting: Threat or Thrill? Navigating the New Digital Frontier
This study explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping accounting and auditing. It focuses on three major AI applications: narrow AI for repetitive tasks, generative AI for creating text-based content, and predictive modeling...
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Monday, July 14, 2025
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Do CEO Stock Options Lead to More Workplace Violations?
This study examines how CEO risk-taking incentives, particularly through stock options (called "vega"), are associated with workplace misconduct, including labor law violations and health and safety breaches....
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Monday, July 14, 2025
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Are Auditors Missing Red Flags by Ignoring Industry Benchmarks?
This study investigates how auditors use benchmarks during preliminary analytical procedures to detect fraud, especially revenue fraud. Specifically, it examines whether industry data, nonfinancial measures...
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Monday, July 14, 2025
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Are Digital Disclosures a Tool for Detecting Corruption?
This study investigates whether making public officials’ personal financial disclosures (PFDs) available online helps federal prosecutors detect and prosecute corruption. It examines how access to PFDs - documents that show...
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Monday, June 16, 2025
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Why Don’t the Benefits of Continuous Auditing Show Up Right Away?
This study investigates why companies are slow to adopt continuous auditing (CA) in their internal audit functions despite its promised benefits. Using field data from a global food retailer, the researchers examine two key factors...
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Monday, June 16, 2025
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Do CEO Pay Cuts Undermine Trust in Earnings?
The study explores whether CEO pay cuts impact how investors perceive the quality of a company’s earnings, using earnings response coefficients (ERCs) as a proxy
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Monday, June 16, 2025
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Can Better Client Service Lead to Better Audits?
This research examines how the way auditors treat their clients—how respectful, communicative, and non-disruptive they are—affects the level of cooperation from client managers during audits.
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Friday, May 16, 2025
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How Does Reporting Frequency Shape Investor Insight?
This study examines how increasing the frequency of mandatory financial reporting—from annual to semiannual to quarterly—affects how well stock prices reflect future earnings.
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Friday, May 16, 2025
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Big Data Analytics and Management Forecasting Behavior
This study investigates whether companies that adopt Big Data analytics are more likely to issue management earnings forecasts and whether those forecasts are more accurate.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
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