Randomized trial investigates explanation efficacy in auditing for unexpected fluctuations, suggesting significant implications for practice.
Provides evidence on whether auditors performing analytical procedures can effectively use explanation to evaluate a client-suggested cause of an unexpected fluctuation. Occurrence of two kinds of failure during the explanation process; Explanations provided by auditors supporting the validity of the cause; Benefits of quantification.
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Anderson et al. (1995) studied this question.