Sayyed Mohsen Madine; Saeid Ali ahmadi; Afsaneh Soroushyar
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Subject and Purpose of the Paper: One of the most important assessments of auditors is fraud risk assessment. For better evaluation, they should use professional skepticism. Organizational learning can change professional skepticism and fraud risk assessment. The purpose of this study was to investigate ...
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Subject and Purpose of the Paper: One of the most important assessments of auditors is fraud risk assessment. For better evaluation, they should use professional skepticism. Organizational learning can change professional skepticism and fraud risk assessment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of organizational learning on professional skepticism and fraud risk assessment.Research Method: The present study is applied in terms of purpose and survey in terms of data collection. The statistical population was the auditors working in the audit organization and the number of samples was determined by Power analysis method to 186 people and the data were analyzed by structural equation method.Research Findings: Organizational learning has a positive effect on professional skepticism and fraud risk assessment. Also, the effect of experience and membership in the IACPA on the relationship between organizational learning and professional skepticism is positive and significant.Conclusion, Originality and its Contribution to the Knowledge: The results of this study can reveal the role of organizational learning in auditing firms while developing the theoretical literature of research related to professional skepticism and fraud risk assessment. This helps auditors assess the risk of fraud as accurately as possible and improves the quality of the audit.
reza nematikoshteli
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Subject and Purpose: Fraud risk assessment requires the development and implementation of unique skills and methods based on which evidence of fraud can be discovered. Therefore, fraud risk assessment is a function of the auditor's performance that is affected by auditors' cognitive learning strategies. ...
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Subject and Purpose: Fraud risk assessment requires the development and implementation of unique skills and methods based on which evidence of fraud can be discovered. Therefore, fraud risk assessment is a function of the auditor's performance that is affected by auditors' cognitive learning strategies. In this study, the effect of cognitive learning strategies of auditors of the Court of Audit of Iran on the fraud risk assessment has been investigated.Research Method: The descriptive -Survey method and from the perspective of the purpose is of the applied research, which has used the standard questionnaire instrument. The research sample is 411 auditors of the Court of Audit who were selected by simple random sampling.Research Findings: The results show that the cognitive learning strategies of the auditors of the Court of Auditors affect fraud risk assessment Therefore, innovator and adaptor cognitive learning strategies have the greatest impact on the variable of fraud risk assessment, respectively.Conclusion, Originality and its Contribution to the Knowledge: The results of this study can help the Court of Audit in recruiting new auditors to consider the type of their cognitive learning strategies, thus improving the quality of auditing by improving the risk assessment of fraud. Therefore, the results of this study can incorporate the concepts of Kirton's theory of cognitive learning strategies into behavioral research texts in governmental auditing.
