The copycat effect: do social influences allow peer team members' dysfunctional audit behaviors to spread throughout the audit team?

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Research on spreadsheet errors began over fifteen years ago. During that time, there has been ample evidence demonstrating that spreadsheet errors are common and nontrivial. Quite simply, spreadsheet error rates are comparable to error rates in other human cognitive activities and are caused by fundamental limitations in human cognition, not mere sloppiness. Nor does ordinary "being careful" el...

Factors Affecting the Internal Audit Effectiveness in the Viewpoint of Audit Committee Members

Objective: Thisresearch has studied the effect of five main factors including competence of internal audit department, size of internal audit department, relationship between internal and external audit, management support for internal audit, and independence of internal audit on the internal audit effectiveness in companies that listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange in 2017. Methods: Data was c...

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For the past year the University of Rhode Island's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Team has been working to develop an AUV capable of satisfying the mission requirements as stated by AUVSI and ONR's AUV 7 Annual Competition Rules. The vehicle, named Prowler V, is a continuation of the vehicle developed and modified over the past 4 years. The Prowler V offers increased processing and power e...

Audit of soap usage by a primary care team.

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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and, more recently, its successor Transport Layer Security (TLS) are foundational technologies of secure communications on the Internet. Secure web browsing, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), and other secure protocols (such as SFTP and SSH) leverage TLS to ensure the privacy of their communications. To meet the needs of software developers, many libraries have been cre...