Journal Name:
The Arab Journal of Accounting, University of Bahrain
Volume:
14
Issue:
1
Pages From:
8
To:
54
Date:
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Keywords:
Expectation Gap, Responsibility of Auditor, Goals of Auditing
Project:
The impact of unreasonable expectations of the financial statements users on the audit expectations gap in Palestine
Abstract:
This paper aims to determine the structure of unreasonable expectation gap
in Palestine by evaluating the perceptions of financial statements users’ in
Palestine about auditor responsibilities, goals and usefulness of auditing, and
the lack of knowledge about auditing profession in general. To achieve this goal
questionnaire was established including items were designated to answer the
hypotheses of the study. (300) questionnaires were distributed for the internal
and external users of financial statements. (232) questionnaires were reached.
This number represents (77.33%) of the distributed questionnaires. Descriptive,
T-test, and Non-Parametric test were used Specifically Kruskal –Wallis. The
results of study found evidence of a wide unreasonable audit expectation gap
in Palestine. In the areas of auditor responsibility, audit benefits and goals,
and some issues that related to audit profession in general, furthermore, the
study found that there are significant statistical differences in the average of
correspondent opinions about the structure of unreasonable expectation gap.