Discusses alternative strategies which may be employed when differences arise between achieved audit‐sampling results and planned results, which means that risk levels used in ex post decision making may be different from planned levels. Contrasts a conventional strategy — which is to fix the risk of incorrect acceptance at a planned level and to ignore the risk of incorrect rejection or to accept the minimum available level of that risk which is consistent, after the fact, with the planned level of risk of incorrect acceptance — with a theoretically appealing strategy which balances both risk levels in proportion to their perceived disutility. Reports on the results of an experiment involving these two strategies, in which all subjects were auditors with statistical audit experience. Suggests that the most important statistically significant finding is that, in certain circumstances, these auditors are more willing to base audit decisions on statistical evidence after the alternative strategy is explained and available for their use. Thompson, J.H. and Ward, B.H. (1993), "Statistical Risk Control Strategies Used to Evaluate Substantive Audit Tests", Managerial Auditing Journal, Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb017607 MCB UP Ltd Copyright © 1993, MCB UP Limited Recommended textbooks for you Auditing: A Risk Based-Approach to Conducting a Q... Author:Karla M Johnstone, Audrey A. Gramling, Larry E. Rittenberg Publisher:South-Western College Pub Auditing: A Risk Based-Approach (MindTap Course L... Author:Karla M Johnstone, Audrey A. Gramling, Larry E. Rittenberg Publisher:Cengage Learning Business/Professional Ethics Directors/Executives... Accounting Information Systems Publisher:Cengage Learning, Contemporary Auditing Auditing: A Risk Based-Approach to Conducting a Q... ISBN:9781305080577 Author:Karla M Johnstone, Audrey A. Gramling, Larry E. Rittenberg Publisher:South-Western College Pub Auditing: A Risk Based-Approach (MindTap Course L... ISBN:9781337619455 Author:Karla M Johnstone, Audrey A. Gramling, Larry E. Rittenberg Publisher:Cengage Learning Business/Professional Ethics Directors/Executives... ISBN:9781337485913 Author:BROOKS Publisher:Cengage Accounting Information Systems ISBN:9781337619202 Author:Hall, James A. Publisher:Cengage Learning, Contemporary Auditing ISBN:9781337650380 Author:KNAPP Publisher:Cengage |