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Risk management in client acceptance decisions.

Accounting Review, October, 2003 by Karla A. Johnstone

ABSTRACT: This paper examines whether risk-management strategies (specifically, the use of specialist personnel and higher billing rates) moderate the effect of risk on client acceptance decisions, thereby assisting auditors in bringing prospective client relationships to acceptable risk/return levels.

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We propose a conceptual model of the client acceptance decision process, and use archival data on one firm's actual client acceptance decisions to test the model. Our results demonstrate the selective use of risk-management strategies in the client acceptance decision, based on the nature of the risks present for each particular client. Specifically, plans to charge a higher billing rate are associated ...

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Financial Services Industry

Risk management in client acceptance decisions.

Accounting Review, October, 2003 by Karla A. Johnstone

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