An Interactive Audit-Staff Scheduling Decision Support System

An optimization model for the audit-staff scheduling decisions faced by public accounting firms is developed in this paper. The model is an integer programming model designed to assign audit-staff to audit engagements in the most effective way. It is shown how the model can be incorporated into a de...

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Published in:The Accounting review 1981-10, Vol.56 (4), p.801-812
Main Authors: Balachandran, Bala V., Zoltners, Andris A.
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Tax audits
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Audit engagements
Auditing standards
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Audits
Decisions
Financial audits
Integer programming
Interactive
Internal audits
Objective functions
Scheduling
Staff
Support
Systems
Tax audits
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