The authors gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments of Michael Bamber, the two anonymous reviewers, Steven
Kachelmeier, Steven Salterio, participants at the 2008 AAA Auditing Midyear Conference, the 2007 Accounting and
Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, the 2007 ANCAAR Forum at the Australian National
University, the 2006 University of Auckland auditing symposium, seminar participants at Monash University, and the
generous support of the audit firms that participated in this study. In particular, we thank the expert panel that helped
write the tasks and model solutions and the participants for their time.
Editor’s note: Accepted by Michael Bamber.