William Messier Jr, Steven Glover, Douglas Prawitt - Auditing & Assurance Services_ A Systematic Approach-McGraw-Hill Education (2016)

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About the Authors
He consults actively with international, regional, and local public accounting firms. He
worked extensively over a five-year period with the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
(COSO) on the COSO Enterprise Risk Management Framework and Internal Control
over Financial Reporting—Guidance for Smaller Public Companies projects, and served a
three-year appointment as a voting member of the AICPA Auditing Standards Board, from
2005–2008. In the fall of 2011, he was appointed to serve a three-year term as a member of the
COSO Board and was appointed to serve a second three-year term beginning in 2014. Professor
Prawitt also has served in several capacities with the American Accounting Association,
including as a member of the editorial boards of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory,
Behavioral Research in Accounting, and as associate editor of Accounting Horizons. He has
authored or co-authored over 40 articles and books, primarily in the areas of auditor judgment
and decision making, and audit practice. Most recently, together with Professor Steve Glover
and KPMG, LLP, he co-authored an award-winning monograph designed to accelerate the
professional judgment of auditors and auditing students, as well as a monograph on professional
skepticism commissioned by the Standards Working Group of the GPPC, an international
consortium of the six largest public accounting firm networks.
Dedications
The authors dedicate this book to the following
individuals:
Teddie, Stacy, Brandon, Zachary, Mark, Lindsay,
Olive, and Frederick
—William F. Messier, Jr.
Tina, Jessica, Andrew, Jennifer, Anna, Wayne,
and Penny
—Steven M. Glover
Meryll, Nathan, Matthew, Natalie, Emily, AnnaLisa,
Leah, George, and Diana
—Douglas F. Prawitt