Abstract This article presents a comment on the study of the audit staff assignment problem in the U.S. The use of quantitative models in the solution of accounting problems has been criticized for their simplistic objective functions, e.g. maximize profit, minimize cost. Goal programming provides an obvious improvement for those problems previously solved via other linear optimizing models. One would expect it to replace linear programming formulations in a short time as it will accommodate each of the prior formulations with the added potential of multiple ranked goals.
Bailey et al. (Mon,) studied this question.
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