Ethical Obligations And Decision-making In Accounting Text And Cases 5th
Ethical Obligations And Decision-making In Accounting Text And Cases 5th
5th Edition
ISBN: 9781259969461
Author: Mintz
Publisher: McGraw Hill
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Chapter 4, Problem 1DQ
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Explain self-serving bias and its influence on audit judgment.

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The self-serving bias is a cognitive bias. It is the distorted perceptual process of an individual to enhance the self-esteem. The self-serving bias leads an individual to perceive oneself in an excessively favorable manner.

The self-serving bias is a situation wherein the people attribute all the positive events to their character and the negative events to other factors. In audit this shall be a problem when the individual considers oneself to be always correct and tries to take all the credit.

The tendency of overconfidence could be one of the reasons of self-serving bias. This however affects the objectivity and skepticism of an auditor and impact the audit judgment.

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