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Audit
Assurance - Canning et al., 2019
Question | Answer |
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demand for assurance | has increased - partly due to increase in companies releasing reports |
big 4 are | dominating the market |
black box of initial assurance practice | know little about how practice has progressed to address challenges highlighted in earlier studies |
materiality traditionally defined via | a financial reporting lens |
materiality | determining the importance of the disclosure of an item of information, or its omission, to users |
materiality and ambiguity | heightened when transferred to new audit spaces |
authors evidence suggests | in processes where uncertainty and ambiguity exist, structure is welcome in support of judgement |
assuror flexibility required to | seek new technologies capable of addressing non-financial data |
high level of synergy between | accountant and non-accountant assurors |
what does this study contradict about previous studies | that subject experts were suppressing their skillsets to carry out assurance |
industry should be embracing | diversity of roles withing teams rather than feeling threatened |
synergies through collaboration may lead to | better decision making |