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Does Industry-Level Information Affect Auditors’ Assessment Of Client-Level Risk?, David Rosser
Does Industry-Level Information Affect Auditors’ Assessment Of Client-Level Risk?, David Rosser
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This study investigates auditors’ consideration of industry-level information in their assessment of client-level risk. Auditing standards suggest that industry-level information is likely to be important in the assessment of client-level risk, but the standards provide few specifics about how auditors should use industry-level information in the risk assessment process. I argue that industry norms serve as a benchmark for evaluating the risk of the client and that deviations from industry norms could indicate increased audit risk. I create measures that capture the extent to which clients deviate from industry norms using proxies for client-level risk factors. In my primary tests, …