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Comparing the Efficiency of Sample Plans for Symmetric and Non-symmetric Distributions in Auditing

verfasst von : Paola M. Chiodini, Mariangela Zenga

Erschienen in: Contributions to Sampling Statistics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The aim of the sampling in auditing fields is to produce an upper confidence limits for mean or totals of unobserved mistakes on the observed values accounts (called book values) that are highly positively skewed. In the main auditing scenarios, it is possible to meet populations with a relatively large number of small accounts combined with high rate of mistakes, that means diffused low errors, or populations with a relatively large number of accounts combined with a small rate of mistakes, that means rare high errors. It seems interesting to evaluate whether the sampling method in relation to the different distribution shape of the population is able to distinguish the pure random error from the systematic error. In this work we will compare, by simulation, the mostly used audit sampling methods for different distribution shapes for book values with different hypothesis on the presence of the errors on the book values population.

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Fußnoten
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The selection procedure for both sampling methods was the systematic procedure (Modow 1949).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Comparing the Efficiency of Sample Plans for Symmetric and Non-symmetric Distributions in Auditing
verfasst von
Paola M. Chiodini
Mariangela Zenga
Copyright-Jahr
2014
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05320-2_7