SAS No. 99 requires brainstorming sessions on every audit AICPA 2002, but the PCAOB has raised concerns about the quality of these sessions in practice PCAOB 2007. This is the first study, to our knowledge, to consider whether and how the quality of brainstorming influences team decision-making.
Our study makes several contributions to research and practice. Leveraging the field survey method, we develop and test a measure of brainstorming quality using data collected from 179 actual audit engagements.