Download or read book Accountability and Auditor's Judgments about Contingent Events written by Thomas Arthur Buchman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past ten years researchers have accumulated a large body of findings describing how auditors make decisions--in experimental settings. One must be cautious, however, in assessing the generalizability of the models of auditor decision making that have been developed because numerous threats exist to the external validity of the typical experimental study of judgment and decision making. Of interest to this research is one particular threat: accountability. In the studies of auditors, the subjects never expect to account for, or justify, the positions they take. This is the antithesis of what occurs outside the experimental setting--auditors are not only accountable to others for their actions, but they may be accountable to several others, each holding different views. Recent psychological research suggests that models developed of decision making in an experimental setting may be misleading unless the subjects are expected to be held accountable for their decisions. This project examines the effect that holding auditors accountable for their decisions to persons of known views has on those decisions.