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Financial Pressure Makes CFOs Less Likely to Report Potential Fraud

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May 29, 2025

Joe Brazel Offers Insights on Forensic Accounting

Poole professor Joe Brazel delves into the difference between forensic accounting and auditing, and how forensic accountants identify red flags.
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Jun 6, 2024

How to Build a Team of ‘Appropriately Skeptical’ Financial Statement Auditors

Rewarding skepticism is associated with an increased likelihood of identifying potential fraud during the auditing process.
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May 7, 2024

Costly Skepticism in the Auditing Industry

Skepticism is a foundational characteristic for financial statement auditors, and it needs reinforcement. But Joseph Brazel, Jenkins Distinguished Professor of Accounting in the Poole College of Management, has found evidence that supervising auditors sometimes discourage their subordinates’ skepticism by fixating on the cost of investigations that don’t identify misstatements in the financial statements. Brazel calls…
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Aug 10, 2023

Joe Brazel Examines Professional Skepticism Among Audit Practitioners

A white paper recently published by the Foundation for Auditing Research spotlights two studies conducted by Joe Brazel, Jenkins Distinguished Professor of Accounting.

Apr 23, 2020

The Economic Consequences of CEO Integrity

Joseph Brazel contributes to Forbes magazine on the consequences of CEO integrity.
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Feb 10, 2020

Financial Pressure Makes CFOs Less Likely to Report Potential Fraud

A study finds that CFOs are less likely to voice fraud concerns when their companies are under pressure.