Emotions are an important underlying factor that may interact with pressure and other situational variables to influence auditors’ judgments and decisions. This study seeks to identify emotional intelligence (EI) as a key factor in dealing with emotions and pressures in an audit context. In this paper, I focus on how EI may influence the relation between job pressures (i.e., time budget pressure and client incentive pressure) on the auditor’s judgment. Specifically, I investigate the moderating effect of emotional intelligence on auditor judgments when auditors experience both internal and external pressures. The results suggest that the moderating influence of EI on auditor judgments can effectively reduce auditors’ tendency to engage in dysfunctional behavior in order to improve audit quality. Furthermore, there is a positive relation between EI and professional skepticism suggesting that auditors with high EI are more skeptical and assess higher risk than auditors with low EI. Finally, moderation analysis suggests that EI is a significant mechanism which drives the joint effects of different type of pressures on auditor judgments.

Title: Activities of certified auditors Key words: auditor, liability, International Standards on Auditing ABSTRACT The diploma thesis focuses on the legal aspects of activities of certified auditors, particularly in the context of auditors' liability. First, it briefly summarizes the history of auditing throughout the world and in the Czech Republic. It analyses the meaning and objectives of the statutory audit and explains the triangular relationship between the auditor, management of the entity and its owners. The description of a typical course of assurance engagement is accompanied by cautionary advice for intricate aspects of acceptance of an audit engagement and the preparation of engagement letter. Attention is paid to materiality levels used during the statutory audit and to the expression that the financial statements give a true and fair view of the financial position of the entity. Different types of auditor's report are distinguished and a variety of errors frequently made not only by users of financial statements from the common public but also by experts participating in management of audited entities is mentioned as well. The three chapters dealing with auditor's liability discuss the civil, disciplinary and criminal issues related to assurance activities. As regards auditors' civil...

<p><p>Uppsatsens syfte är att ta reda på enskilda revisorers uppfattning om penningtvättslagens eventuella påverkan på revisorns arbete och kundrelation. Dessutom undersöker uppsatsen enskilda revisorers syn på om de anser att de har förutsättningarna som krävs för att följa penningtvättslagen. Studien har genomförts med en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod. Fem revisorer med lång erfarenhet inom revisionsbranschen har blivit intervjuade och därmed bistått med sina åsikter.</p><p><p>Enligt lag (2009:62) om åtgärder mot penningtvätt och finansiering av terrorism är revisorer skyldiga att granska och anmäla transaktioner som kan misstänkas vara penningtvätt eller finansiering av terrorism. Revisorerna är även skyldiga att ha god kundkännedom, vilket bland annat innebär att de skall göra noggranna identitetskontroller. Från en del håll har det dock framkommit åsikter om att det inte är problemfritt att involvera revisorer i lagstiftningen mot penningtvätt.</p><p>Den genomförda undersökningen visar att majoriteten av de intervjuade revisorerna inte ser några direkta problem med att vara involverade i penningtvättslagen. Åsikterna är dock delade och några är kritiska till lagstiftningen. Slutsatserna av studien är att majoriteten av respondenterna inte ser att lagen påverkar relationen till klienten. De anser vidare att lagen innebär mer arbete, men detta ser revisorerna inte som särskilt påfrestande. Revisorerna som har deltagit i studien anser själva att de har goda förutsättningar att följa lagen.</p></p></p> / <p><p>The purpose with this thesis is to study the opinions that individual auditors have about the law against money laundering. The study will examine the opinions from auditors about how the law affects their work and their relations to the clients. Individual auditors view of the conditions to follow the law against money laundering, will also be studied in this thesis. The study was conducted with a qualitative research method. Five auditors with long experience from the accounting profession have been interviewed and had thereby assisted the thesis with their views.</p><p><p>According to the law (2009:62) against money laundering and terrorist financing, auditors are obligated to examine and report transactions that could be suspected money laundering or terrorist financing. Auditors are also responsible to have a good knowledge about their clients, which for instance means that they must do accurate identity checks of the clients. However some people have pointed out that it’s not without any problems to involve auditors in the law against money laundering.</p><p>The study shows that a majority of the interviewed auditors don’t see any problems with being involved in the regulation against money laundering. However the opinions are divided and some of the auditors are critical to the regulation. The conclusion from the study is that most of the interviewed auditors don’t think that the relation to the client is affected by the law against money laundering. Further on they think that the law means more work, but the auditors don’t see this as particularly problematical. The auditors that have participated in the study believe that they have good terms to follow the law against money laundering.</p></p></p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-90).

Uppsatsens syfte är att ta reda på enskilda revisorers uppfattning om penningtvättslagens eventuella påverkan på revisorns arbete och kundrelation. Dessutom undersöker uppsatsen enskilda revisorers syn på om de anser att de har förutsättningarna som krävs för att följa penningtvättslagen. Studien har genomförts med en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod. Fem revisorer med lång erfarenhet inom revisionsbranschen har blivit intervjuade och därmed bistått med sina åsikter. Enligt lag (2009:62) om åtgärder mot penningtvätt och finansiering av terrorism är revisorer skyldiga att granska och anmäla transaktioner som kan misstänkas vara penningtvätt eller finansiering av terrorism. Revisorerna är även skyldiga att ha god kundkännedom, vilket bland annat innebär att de skall göra noggranna identitetskontroller. Från en del håll har det dock framkommit åsikter om att det inte är problemfritt att involvera revisorer i lagstiftningen mot penningtvätt. Den genomförda undersökningen visar att majoriteten av de intervjuade revisorerna inte ser några direkta problem med att vara involverade i penningtvättslagen. Åsikterna är dock delade och några är kritiska till lagstiftningen. Slutsatserna av studien är att majoriteten av respondenterna inte ser att lagen påverkar relationen till klienten. De anser vidare att lagen innebär mer arbete, men detta ser revisorerna inte som särskilt påfrestande. Revisorerna som har deltagit i studien anser själva att de har goda förutsättningar att följa lagen. / The purpose with this thesis is to study the opinions that individual auditors have about the law against money laundering. The study will examine the opinions from auditors about how the law affects their work and their relations to the clients. Individual auditors view of the conditions to follow the law against money laundering, will also be studied in this thesis. The study was conducted with a qualitative research method. Five auditors with long experience from the accounting profession have been interviewed and had thereby assisted the thesis with their views. According to the law (2009:62) against money laundering and terrorist financing, auditors are obligated to examine and report transactions that could be suspected money laundering or terrorist financing. Auditors are also responsible to have a good knowledge about their clients, which for instance means that they must do accurate identity checks of the clients. However some people have pointed out that it’s not without any problems to involve auditors in the law against money laundering. The study shows that a majority of the interviewed auditors don’t see any problems with being involved in the regulation against money laundering. However the opinions are divided and some of the auditors are critical to the regulation. The conclusion from the study is that most of the interviewed auditors don’t think that the relation to the client is affected by the law against money laundering. Further on they think that the law means more work, but the auditors don’t see this as particularly problematical. The auditors that have participated in the study believe that they have good terms to follow the law against money laundering.

This study explores how auditors’ attitudes toward marketing and their views on the importance of marketing affect how they balance their time spent on marketing and auditing activities. The purpose is to understand how changes in the business environment for auditors affect the relationship between the auditing profession and marketing. The study is based on a survey of 711 auditors in Sweden. The findings suggest that auditors with a positive attitude toward marketing spend significantly more time on marketing activities compared to those with a less positive attitude. Furthermore, auditors who view marketing activities as important spend significantly more time on marketing activities. The study controlled for the number of years as approved or authorized auditor, age of the auditor, and firm affiliation. The results indicate that the theoretical distance between the auditing profession and marketing does not exist in practice to the same degree as it used to. The findings of the study have implications for international auditing theory and practice in illuminating the relationship of marketing and auditing in a wider business context.

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This dissertation examines how differences between the strategic-systems audit approach and the traditional, transaction-based audit approach affect the content and complexity of client business knowledge in long-term memory, how these mental representations develop with experience, and how the representations affect risk assessment. Knowledge of the client?s business is essential to conducting an effective and efficient audit, but researchers have devoted little attention to how this knowledge is represented in memory and what effect it has on audit judgment. Moreover, proponents of the strategic-systems approach argue that this approach leads to the formation of a more-complex client business model and results in better audit judgments than the transaction-based approach. The study?s results contradict these claims, with the strategic-systems auditors having less-complex models than their TBA counterparts. Also, no experience-related differences were found in the client models, and risk assessments were only weakly affected by content and complexity differences between client models. After a variety of supplemental analyses, it was concluded that there is no evidence from this dissertation to suggest that the SSA methodology does not result in an auditor possessing an enhanced knowledge of the client?s business compared to that possessed by an auditor employing a traditional audit approach.

Background In 2008 a global financial crisis erupted. Even though auditors were not to blame for the financial crisis the public questioned how auditors could issue a clean bill of health despite the serious weaknesses. This made the Commission release the 2010 Green Paper on audit policy: Lessons from the Crisis. The Green Paper is a consultation paper which received around 700 replies from various stakeholders. In 2011, the Commission presented their proposal on reform of the audit market, in which many of the key elements had been discussed in the Green Paper. The 2011 proposal seeks to enhance auditor independence and introduce a more dynamic audit market. The proposed reforms are very strict and if the proposal is passed in its current form it would imply a major change of the audit market. This thesis has studied the replies made by investors to the Green Paper; investors are the primary stakeholders and those who should be most concerned with auditor independence. It is therefore important and interesting to study their viewpoints to the Green Paper. Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand and explain investors’ standpoints on the proposals mentioned in the Green Paper to enhance auditor independence, and to examine whether the European Commission, as indicted by the 2011 proposal, require more independence than investors as indicted by the replies made to the Green Paper. Method This study has taken a qualitative approach where the data has been analyzed in-depth. The Green Paper consists of 38 questions; four of these have been studied as they strongly relate to auditor independence. Furthermore this thesis has studied the replies made by investors; investors are the primary stakeholders and those who should be most concerned with auditor independence. It is therefore important and interesting to study their viewpoints to the Green Paper. Conclusion The majority of the respondents’ are negative to the ideas presented in the Green Paper but that does not imply that the Commission requires more independence than investors. Both the Commission and investors argue that status quo is not an option and that auditor independence must be strengthened. What separates their views is how to strengthen auditor independence. The Commission seeks to impose strict regulations while investors prefer good corporate governance as an alternative approach to strengthen auditor independence.

Titel: Redovisningskonsulternas arbete - hur har det påverkats av revisionspliktens avskaffande? Nivå: Kandidatuppsats i ämnet företagsekonomi, redovisning och revision, 15 Hp, FÖA300 Författare: Jenny Barkman Lövdal, Maarit Jansson, Cholticha Pruekwatcharakun Handledare: Ulla Pettersson  Datum: 31 maj 2012 Problemformulering: Revision har genomgått lagändringar under en lång tid och kravet på kunskap om revision har ändrats i takt med detta. År 2010 infördes en lagstiftning om avskaffande av revisionsplikt för små bolag i Sverige, vilket ökade efterfrågan på redovisningskonsulter. För att ta redan på vilka konsekvenser det fört med sig har följande frågor formulerats: Har redovisningskonsulternas uppdrag ökat i antal och omfattning?  Har branschorganisationerna SRF och FAR påverkat kompetenskravet på redovisningskonsulterna?  Har kontrollen av redovisningskonsulternas kunskap och arbete ändrats? Syfte: Huvudsyftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur de valda redovisningskonsulterna anser att avskaffandet av revisionsplikten påverkat deras uppdrag, arbetsuppgifter, kunskapskrav och kontrollen av detta. Delsyftet med studien är att ta redan på hur SRF och FAR, men även de valda revisorerna uppfattar förändringarna av avskaffandet av revisionsplikten i avseende redovisningskonsultens uppdrag. Metod: Genom att studera teori och insamlad data från både personliga och nätbaserade intervjuer får vi en kvalitativ undersökning som leder till pålitliga och relevanta slutsatser.  Empiri: Intervjusvaren vi fått från redovisningskonsulter, revisorer och representanter för branschorganisationen presenteras genom en sammanställning för varje yrkesgrupp. Slutsats: Vår slutsats är att det är för tidigt att uttala sig om hur vida redovisningskonsulternas uppdrag har ökat i antal och omfattning, att branschorganisationerna har påverkat kompetenskravet genom införandet avReko och auktorisationer och att kontrollen av redovisningskonsulternas kunskap och arbete har ökat. Nyckelord: Redovisningskonsult, revisor och revisionspliktens avskaffande. / Title: The accounting consultants work - how has it been influenced by the abolition of audit requirement? Level: Final assignment for Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, accounting and auditing, 15 ECTS, FÖA300 Author: Jenny Barkman Lövdal, Maarit Jansson, Cholticha Pruekwatcharakun Supervisor: Ulla Pettersson Date:  31st May 2012 Problem description: The audit has undergone changes in the law during a period of time. The essential knowledge of the auditor would be changed based on the law changes. The law that carried out recently (2010) through the abolition of mandatory auditing for small companies in Sweden, increasing demand on accounting consultants. To find out which are entailed consequences, the following questions are formulated: Have the accounting consultants assignments increased in quantity and scope?  Have the professional institutes of SRF and FAR influenced knowledge requirement for the accounting consultants? Has the control of the accounting consultant's knowledge and work changed? Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to investigate how the selected accounting consultant’s consider that the abolition of the audit requirement has affected theirs knowledge and work, as well as the control of those. The aim of this study is to find out not only how the selected auditors but also how SRF and FAR perceive the changes of the abolition of the audit requirement considering on accounting consultant's duties. Method: A qualitative research is used to study various theories. Collecting data from questionnaires and interviews lead to find out reliable and relevant conclusions. Empirical: A statement of each occupational group will present the answers that are collected from accounting consultants, auditors and the representatives of the professional institute. Conclusion: It is too early to express an opinion regarding an increase of assignments for accounting consultants. The professional institutes of SRF and FAR have affected the skill requirements for the accounting consultants through the introduction of Reko and authorizations. The essential knowledge and profession of accounting consultants has increased. Keywords: Accounting consultant, auditor and the abolition of mandatory auditing.