Refer to the Focus on Fraud feature Common Types of Earnings Management Techniques. Why might it be

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Refer to the Focus on Fraud feature "Common Types of Earnings Management Techniques." Why might it be difficult for auditors to disallow companies' preferences to decrease existing reserves? Explain the role of professional skepticism in the context of evaluating management's explanations for their accounting for reserves in this context.

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Auditing A Risk Based Approach to Conducting a Quality Audit

ISBN: 978-1305080577

10th edition

Authors: Karla Johnstone, Audrey Gramling, Larry E. Rittenberg

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