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The New Psychology of Fraud 2024-2025

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Self-study

4.00 Credits

Member Price $99.00

Non-Member Price $129.00

Overview

Benefit plan audits, a material but less understood public accounting service, represent a non-audit service that is — audit-related. — We explore the implications of benefit plan audits for the financial statement audit and find that performing a benefit plan audit for a company significantly increases the likelihood that the firm will be selected as a company’s financial statement auditor in the future, particularly for smaller audit firms. Companies that engage the same audit firm for both their benefit plan and financial statement audits have a significantly lower likelihood of misstatements and shorter audit report lags. There is also evidence consistent with the joint provision of these services creating greater bonding and higher switching costs for the financial statement audit. The findings speak to the continued debate over the effective market expansion of financial statement audit providers, audit quality determinants, and audit efficiencies.

Highlights

  • Behavioral profiling
  • Psychology and reasoning related to both investigators and perpetrators

Prerequisites

Auditing experience and knowledge of terminology.

Objectives

  • Identify at least one major foundational shift in the approach to fraud investigations
  • Identify common errors in behavioral profiling

Notice

This is a self-study/on demand course offered by a 3rd party vendor and will NOT be accessible in the My Upcoming CPE section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by CalCPA. The course expires one year from the purchase date. Format = Online Self-Study.

Non-Member Price $129.00

Member Price $99.00