Research Instrument
Similar to the method used by Gibbins et al. 2001, Nelson etal. 2002, and Dowling 2009, participants completed a field survey that required them to select one recently completed audit for which a fraud brainstorming session was held. They then responded to questions related to the consideration of fraud based upon their experiences on that engagement. Participants provided measures of fraud risk factors, their overall fraud risk assessment for the engagement, measures of audit responses to the fraud risk assessment, and objective and subjective data regarding the quality of the audit’s fraud brainstorming sessions.