Assessing the performance of analytical procedures: a best case scenario

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Auditors are seeking more effective and efficient audit procedures due to client demands that auditors take more responsibility for misstatements and the decline in audit fee levels. Five sample companies with revenues exhibiting a great variety of time-series behavior were analyzed to research the effects of eight accounting errors in five common analytical procedures to study the effectiveness of audit analytical procedures by seeding simulated errors in actual accounting data. Research reveals that the lowest error rates were in those instances where direct recomputation of interest and depreciation errors was the primary substantive test. Research results indicate that Statement of Accounting Standard No.56's assertion that balance sheet accounts are less predictable than income statement accounts is wrong, though evidence is limited.

Insurance, Accounting and auditing, Accounting, Auditing

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A note on participation in budgeting and locus of control

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The participative relationship between superiors and their subordinates is examined. The findings of a laboratory experiment indicate that the personality variable, the locus of control, may affect the extent to which a supervisor will accept the input of subordinates. Results support the hypothesis that internal managers are more willing than external managers to allow subordinate participation.

United States, Management, Surveys, Labor relations, Management research, Participatory management, Program budgeting

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