Coping With Identified Budgetary Time Constraints: Auditors' Industry Specialization and Risk Assessments

The results of the study suggest that industry specialization affects auditors' risk assessments. Specifically, industry-matched auditors make better discerning risk assessments than do industry-mismatched auditors. Industry-matched auditors also use more appropriate coping strategies and revise the audit plan and budget more appropriately than do industry-mismatched auditors. Auditors' industry specialization separately and jointly with auditors' risk assessments influence the types and extent of coping strategy that auditors used to mitigate identified budgetary constraints. Industry-matched auditors' coping strategies and budgetary constraint mitigation are generally more sensitive to their risk assessments than are industry-mismatched auditors' coping strategies and budgetary constraint mitigation. The quality, types and extent of coping strategies employed by auditors in mitigating identified budgetary constraints are likely to affect the time stress experienced and behaviors exhibited by auditors later on in an audit.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Accountancy

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Low, Kin-Yew

Contributors dc:contributor

• Solomon, Ira

• Business Administration, Accounting

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3030457

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87149