Does Profiling Fraudsters Increase Auditor’s Professional Skepticism?
Empirical Evidence of the Narcissistic Profiles
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- 10.2991/978-94-6463-026-8_7How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Narcissism; Profiling; Professional skepticism; Fraudster
- Abstract
Profiling the psychological characteristics of fraudsters including narcissism is perceived as an important factor for auditors especially with their responsibility for fraud detection. Such profiling should increase the auditor professional skepticism during brainstorming sessions. This study aims to investigate the influence of the psychological characteristics of fraudsters especially narcissism on auditor’s professional skepticism. Our empirical study are based on data from auditors of public accounting firms and the Auditor Board of Indonesia (BPK) located in Semarang, Indonesia which involves 68 respondents. Data then was analyzed using linear regression. The result indicates that narcissism significantly increases the auditor’s professional skepticism. The finding implies that during the brainstorming session, auditors should consider the psychological characteristics of clients beyond the procedural aspects of audit.
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TY - CONF AU - Darsono Darsono AU - Anis Chariri AU - Indira Januarti PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/10 TI - Does Profiling Fraudsters Increase Auditor’s Professional Skepticism? BT - Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Management, Business and Economics Conference (AMBEC 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 60 EP - 66 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-026-8_7 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-026-8_7 ID - Darsono2022 ER -