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Importance Of Auditor Judgment In Improving Audit Quality, W. Robert Knechel Jan 2010

Importance Of Auditor Judgment In Improving Audit Quality, W. Robert Knechel

Proceedings of the University of Kansas Symposium on Auditing Problems

No abstract provided.


Equational Zero Vector Databases, Non-Equational Databases, And Inherent Internal Control, Roberta Ann Barra, Arline Savage, Jeff J. Tsay Jan 2010

Equational Zero Vector Databases, Non-Equational Databases, And Inherent Internal Control, Roberta Ann Barra, Arline Savage, Jeff J. Tsay

Accounting

Equational zero vector accounting systems, based on duality principles and the double-entry model, were designed as ontological control systems to help prevent and detect fraud and errors inherent in non-equational, single-entry systems. Non-equational systems lend themselves to fraud and errors to a larger degree because the internal control inherent in an equational zero vector system has no substitute. We use an analytical analysis methodology to show that an equational zero vector system provides superior inherent internal control over data completeness and data reliability. In the accounting information systems area, the most popular modern non-equational system, the resource-event-agent model, is increasingly …


Women Accountants In The 1880 Us Federal Census: A Genealogical Analysis, Diane H. Roberts Jan 2010

Women Accountants In The 1880 Us Federal Census: A Genealogical Analysis, Diane H. Roberts

Accounting

This historical census micro-data project examines the characteristics of women who self report as accountants in the 1880 US Federal Census. Using the data provided by the actual Census forms the demographic, familial, and economic characteristics of women accountants are examined and found to be quite different from the experience of accountants overall found by Lee [2007]. A fairly clear picture of a typical 1880 female accountant emerged and analysis of their multi-generational families gave insight into the changing occupational landscape of the period. Almost all women accountants were US born of US born parents and most did not migrate …


Analysis Of Xbrl Literature: A Decade Of Progress And Puzzle, Saeed Roohani, Zhao Xianming, Ernest Capozzoli, Barbara Lamberton Jan 2010

Analysis Of Xbrl Literature: A Decade Of Progress And Puzzle, Saeed Roohani, Zhao Xianming, Ernest Capozzoli, Barbara Lamberton

Faculty Articles

XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting language) was recently, in 2008, in its 10th year. The concept was articulated in 1998 by Charles Hoffman, known as XFRML (eXtensible Financial Reporting Mark Up Language) to facilitate the business reporting process and improve financial reporting. The objective of this paper is to examine a decade (1998-2008) of XBRL articles published in various publications including trade, practitioner and academic journals to identify trends and patterns, milestones, and organizations actively contributed to this development. Another goal is to assess public perceptions of XBRL, its capabilities and its future. We examined published articles where XBRL appeared either …


Cpa Expert 2010 Winter, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2010

Cpa Expert 2010 Winter, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Cpa Client Bulletin, January 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2010

Cpa Client Bulletin, January 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.


The Design And Implementation Of An Enlivened Ifrs Course, Mark Holtzblatt, Norbert Tschakert Jan 2010

The Design And Implementation Of An Enlivened Ifrs Course, Mark Holtzblatt, Norbert Tschakert

Business Faculty Publications

In the Spring/2009 semester, with the financial support of a PricewaterhouseCoopers IFRS Ready Grant, a new course was developed that focused on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The course design goal was to choose the optimal combination of pedagogical tools and topics to create an effective, engaging and stimulating course plan. The course incorporates the online e-IFRS created by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), e-Learning IFRS Modules from the global accounting firm of Deloitte and IFRS Expert online videos and webcasts from corporate and various institutional and academic institutions. The pedagogical techniques described herein are also applicable to introductory …


Not-For-Profit Entities : Accounting Trends & Techniques : Financial Statement Reporting And Disclosure Practices, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2010

Not-For-Profit Entities : Accounting Trends & Techniques : Financial Statement Reporting And Disclosure Practices, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Accounting Trends and Techniques

No abstract provided.


On His Majesty's Secret Service: Accounting For The Secret Service In A Time Of National Peril 1782-1806;, Warwick Funnell Jan 2010

On His Majesty's Secret Service: Accounting For The Secret Service In A Time Of National Peril 1782-1806;, Warwick Funnell

Accounting Historians Journal

Reforms to the civil list in the late 18th century in England sought to deny the Crown opportunities to use its civil-list funds and sinecures to buy influence in Parliament and, thereby, diminish constitutional protections for liberty. Among the most important reforms were tighter accounting requirements for civil-list spending, including that for the secret services. The unique nature and purpose of the home and foreign secret services, which were the responsibility of the Crown and paid from civil-service funds, resulted in accounting controls which depended upon additional measures to provide Parliament with greater control over spending and enhanced accountability. These …


Center For Audit Quality Panel Discussion: What We Observe Happening In The New Environment, William Ezzell, Randy Fletchall, Cindy Fornelli Jan 2010

Center For Audit Quality Panel Discussion: What We Observe Happening In The New Environment, William Ezzell, Randy Fletchall, Cindy Fornelli

Proceedings of the University of Kansas Symposium on Auditing Problems

No abstract provided.


Effects Of Uncertainty And Disclosure On Auditors’ Fair Value Materiality Decisions, Jeremy .B. Griffin Jan 2010

Effects Of Uncertainty And Disclosure On Auditors’ Fair Value Materiality Decisions, Jeremy .B. Griffin

Proceedings of the University of Kansas Symposium on Auditing Problems

No abstract provided.


Auditing Symposium Xx, Proceedings Of The 2010 Deloitte/University Of Kansas Symposium On Auditing Problems, James A. Heintz Jan 2010

Auditing Symposium Xx, Proceedings Of The 2010 Deloitte/University Of Kansas Symposium On Auditing Problems, James A. Heintz

Proceedings of the University of Kansas Symposium on Auditing Problems

No abstract provided.


Growing Up Financially Literate: A Lifelong Curriculum, Amanda J. Brown Jan 2010

Growing Up Financially Literate: A Lifelong Curriculum, Amanda J. Brown

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This work ventures to find a solution to one source of economic instability: financial illiteracy. The inability to manage money, caused by a lack of education, has led to poor decision making. These bad decisions can lead to a number of financial hardships, as well as emotional and physical problems. Better education can combat all of these symptoms and lead to a healthier financial future. Growing Up Financially Literate attempts to help close the curriculum gap surrounding financial literacy by recognizing that the gap does not only exist in a single age group. Financial education cannot stop with any one …


2009-2010 Financial Summary, Morehead State University. Budget & Financial Planning Office. Jan 2010

2009-2010 Financial Summary, Morehead State University. Budget & Financial Planning Office.

Morehead State University Financial Summaries Archive

2009-2010 Financial Summary of Morehead State University.


Social Exchange And Post-Employment Citizenship: Evidence From Public Accounting, David N. Herda Jan 2010

Social Exchange And Post-Employment Citizenship: Evidence From Public Accounting, David N. Herda

Accounting Dissertations - Archive

In this study I examine why some ex-employees more than others choose to benefit their former firm (post-employment citizenship). The study is based on social exchange theory and involves former employees of a Big Four accounting firm. Among individuals who left the firm voluntarily, post-employment citizenship was found to be predicted by a two-phase social exchange relationship between employees and the firm, and the two-phases, represented by during-employment perceived organizational support and during-employment organizational commitment, partially mediated the relationship between during-employment organizational fairness and post-employment citizenship. For layoff victims, I extend Brockner, Tyler, and Cooper-Schneider's (1992) research on the interaction …


The Internal Control Provisions Of Sarbanes-Oxley Act And Quality Of Interim Earnings, Lei Han Jan 2010

The Internal Control Provisions Of Sarbanes-Oxley Act And Quality Of Interim Earnings, Lei Han

Accounting Dissertations - Archive

This study examines the change in the quality of interim earnings around the enactment of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and whether the change differs between interim and annual earnings by focusing on the impact of internal control provisions. In particular, two hypotheses are tested in this study. First, the quality of interim earnings improves after the SOX. Second, the gap in earnings quality between annual and interim reporting decreases after the SOX. Prior research indicates that the quality of interim earnings is lower because managers have more discretion in interim reporting and interim earnings are only subject to review which involves …


Decomposition Of Fraud-Risk Assessments And Auditors’ Sensitivity To Fraud Cues*, T. Jeffrey Wilks, Mark F. Zimbelman Jan 2010

Decomposition Of Fraud-Risk Assessments And Auditors’ Sensitivity To Fraud Cues*, T. Jeffrey Wilks, Mark F. Zimbelman

Faculty Publications

Practitioners and regulators are concerned that when auditors perceive management’s attitude or character as indicative of low fraud risk, they are not sufficiently sensitive to high levels of incentive or opportunity risks in their overall fraud-risk assessments. In this study, we examine whether a fraud-triangle decomposition of fraud-risk assessments (that is, separately assessing attitude, opportunity, and incentive risks prior to assessing overall fraud risk) increases auditors’ sensitivity to opportunity and incentive cues when perceptions of management’s attitude suggest low fraud risk. In an experiment with 52 practicing audit managers, we find that auditors who decompose fraud-risk assessments are more sensitive …


Exploring Sustainability Practices And Reporting At Musgrave Group: A Case Study Of An Irish Private Company., Rebecca Maughan, Brendan O'Dwyer Jan 2010

Exploring Sustainability Practices And Reporting At Musgrave Group: A Case Study Of An Irish Private Company., Rebecca Maughan, Brendan O'Dwyer

Conference papers

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a case study of a large Irish company, Musgrave Group, which has been engaged in sustainability practices and reporting since the late 1990s. In doing so the paper provides an in-depth account firstly of the internal motivations for the company’s engagement with sustainability practices and reporting and secondly of the process through which the sustainability practice gained internal support and began to be integrated into the day to day activities of the company. The case study of the company involved a series of interviews with key participants in the …


The Role Of Fair Value Accounting In Bank Failures: 2001-2010, Jacob Edward Eugene Spring Jan 2010

The Role Of Fair Value Accounting In Bank Failures: 2001-2010, Jacob Edward Eugene Spring

CMC Senior Theses

Over the Past two and a half years banks have failed at the fastest pace since the Great Depression. These rapidly mounting bank failures have rekindled a debate surrounding the use of fair value accounting, with many arguing that fair value has exacerbated the severity of the recent financial crisis through asset devaluation and the forced sale of assets in an effort to meet capital requirements. This paper seeks to test if an entity’s exposure to fair value which includes assets available-for-sale, trading assets, and loans held-for-sale as a percent of total assets increases the probability of bank failure through …


An Examination Of The Government Accounting Standards Board, Christopher D. Jones Jan 2010

An Examination Of The Government Accounting Standards Board, Christopher D. Jones

CMC Senior Theses

This thesis examines the Government Accounting Standards Board by considering its history, current structure, and treatment of a current accounting standards debate. It then uses this examination to make recommendations as to reforms of the GASB and government accounting.


How Users Actually Use Financial Statements: A New Tool For Research In Experimental Accounting, Kevin Burke Jan 2010

How Users Actually Use Financial Statements: A New Tool For Research In Experimental Accounting, Kevin Burke

CMC Senior Theses

This thesis presents a new methodology based on directly measuring user behavior and making decisions based on experimental results. I have built and tested a tool which will enable researchers to use the methodology to determine whether particular financial statement presentations are more beneficial than others. The tool records user movement on a computer screen with mouse tracking, which allows researchers to track user behavior in greater detail than ever before. The methodology was tested on a subject pool of non-professional financial analysts and junior professionals, who were presented with a company’s financial data in the current GAAP and a …


The Secondary Market For Gift Cards And The Role Of Corporate Bankruptcy Risk, Kaitlyn A. Desai Jan 2010

The Secondary Market For Gift Cards And The Role Of Corporate Bankruptcy Risk, Kaitlyn A. Desai

CMC Senior Theses

The website, Plastic Jungle, is taking advantage of the rapidly growing gift card phenomena by creating a secondary market that enables consumers to buy, sell, and exchange gift cards online at a discount. This paper examines the relationship between this secondary gift card market and the corporate bankruptcy risk of companies with gift cards listed on the market. When a company issues a gift card, the card is unsecured debt and the cardholder becomes an unsecured creditor to the company. This paper investigates whether the cardholder acts similarly to other unsecured creditors or as someone who is merely holding another …


Transfer Pricing: Current Problems And Solutions, Ronald Wu Jan 2010

Transfer Pricing: Current Problems And Solutions, Ronald Wu

CMC Senior Theses

The current problems and possible solutions surrounding United States transfer pricing regulations are discussed and studied. The schemes large multinational companies are implementing to legally evade taxes are uncovered as the financial effects to the United States Treasury and government are becoming material. The benefits for these schemes are financially advantageous for corporations as they are able to report larger profits and higher returns for investors. But this is being done at the expense of our government. Corporations are finding ways to escape the high U.S. corporate tax rate and lower their global tax liabilities by allocating income to lower …


Required Supplementary Information; Statement On Auditing Standards, 120, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Jan 2010

Required Supplementary Information; Statement On Auditing Standards, 120, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Statements on Auditing Standards

No abstract provided.


Bankruptcy As A Corporate Strategy : Implications For Turnover In The Top Management Team And Board Of Directors, Cynthia Lane Krom Jan 2010

Bankruptcy As A Corporate Strategy : Implications For Turnover In The Top Management Team And Board Of Directors, Cynthia Lane Krom

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This paper examines Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a corporate strategy, segregating filings for corporate reorganization in the U.S. from 1998 through 2007 into those due to financial distress (FDB) and those believed to be for risk-management purposes (RMB). Twenty-seven RMB and 199 FDB firms were compared to each other, and to 226 matched non-bankrupt firms. Altman's Z-score clearly differed between the RMB and FDB firms, suggesting that the two are separate constructs financially as well as legally. A subset of 81 firms (the 27 RMB matched to 27 non-bankrupt and 27 FDB) were studied for turnover among the members of …


Auditing Revenue In Certain Industries, With Conforming Changes As Of March 1, 2010; Audit And Accounting Guide, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Revenue Steering Task Force Jan 2010

Auditing Revenue In Certain Industries, With Conforming Changes As Of March 1, 2010; Audit And Accounting Guide, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Revenue Steering Task Force

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

No abstract provided.


Real Estate And Construction Industry Developments - 20010/11; Audit Risk Alerts, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2010

Real Estate And Construction Industry Developments - 20010/11; Audit Risk Alerts, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

No abstract provided.


Not-For-Profit Entities Industry Developments - 2010; Audit Risk Alerts, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2010

Not-For-Profit Entities Industry Developments - 2010; Audit Risk Alerts, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

No abstract provided.


Current Economic Instability : Accounting Issues And Risks For Financial Management And Reporting - 2010; Financial Reporting Alert, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2010

Current Economic Instability : Accounting Issues And Risks For Financial Management And Reporting - 2010; Financial Reporting Alert, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

No abstract provided.


The Economic Impact Of The Gulf Opportunity Zone Act Of 2005, Randall B. Bunker Jan 2010

The Economic Impact Of The Gulf Opportunity Zone Act Of 2005, Randall B. Bunker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The economic impact of the gulf opportunity zone act of 2005 politicians utilize tax policy investment incentives to foster economic growth and stimulate investment. On December 21, 2005, president bush signed the gulf opportunity zone act of 2005, otherwise known as the go zone act. The go zone act provided tax incentives to stimulate economic growth and assist in the recovery and rebuilding efforts. This research evaluates the economic impact of tax policy investment incentives provided by the go zone act of 2005. Congress continues to use tax incentives to stimulate economic growth even though empirical research on the impact …