Attitude towards academic survey among audit firms in Malaysia: some challenges

In the past, it was common among the accounting domain literature to document studies on the avenue of behavioural aspects. Many past behavioral literature captures the ethical attitudes, or ethical intentions towards certain area of decision making and perceptions. Likewise, very seldom do we encou...

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Main Authors:	Puat Nelson, Sherliza, Ahmad, Maslina, Zainal Abidin, Nor Hafizah
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit UMT 2019
Subjects:	H91 General special
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spelling	iium-760972019-12-10T02:45:01Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/76097/ Attitude towards academic survey among audit firms in Malaysia: some challenges Puat Nelson, Sherliza Ahmad, Maslina Zainal Abidin, Nor Hafizah H91 General special In the past, it was common among the accounting domain literature to document studies on the avenue of behavioural aspects. Many past behavioral literature captures the ethical attitudes, or ethical intentions towards certain area of decision making and perceptions. Likewise, very seldom do we encounter research on the avenue of behavioural of accountants towards survey. In the current study, we investigate the behaviour of accounting practitioners towards survey. We sent surveys to these accounting practitioners at the end of the year starting from October 2017, just before the peak season starts. The mailing list of audit firms in Malaysia was obtained from the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) for a nationally representative, convenience sample. A total of 119 firms were finally sent a set of questionnaire surveys regarding independence and ethical requirements. Recipients were asked to complete the questionnaires, and the completed questionnaires would be collected by hand later. The purpose of our research is to document the behaviour of practitioners towards academic survey. This came to light due to our recent encounter with audit firms when collecting data on questionnaire surveys. The responses were very discouraging. Hence motivated us to examine and document the responses of these practitioners towards academic survey. Penerbit UMT 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/76097/1/Nelson%20Ahmad%20and%20Zainal-Abidin%202019.pdf Puat Nelson, Sherliza and Ahmad, Maslina and Zainal Abidin, Nor Hafizah (2019) Attitude towards academic survey among audit firms in Malaysia: some challenges. Journal of Business and Social Development, 7 (2). pp. 29-36. E-ISSN 2600-9668 http://jbsd.umt.edu.my/wp-content/uploads/sites/53/2019/11/4_.pdf
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description	In the past, it was common among the accounting domain literature to document studies on the avenue of behavioural aspects. Many past behavioral literature captures the ethical attitudes, or ethical intentions towards certain area of decision making and perceptions. Likewise, very seldom do we encounter research on the avenue of behavioural of accountants towards survey. In the current study, we investigate the behaviour of accounting practitioners towards survey. We sent surveys to these accounting practitioners at the end of the year starting from October 2017, just before the peak season starts. The mailing list of audit firms in Malaysia was obtained from the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) for a nationally representative, convenience sample. A total of 119 firms were finally sent a set of questionnaire surveys regarding independence and ethical requirements. Recipients were asked to complete the questionnaires, and the completed questionnaires would be collected by hand later. The purpose of our research is to document the behaviour of practitioners towards academic survey. This came to light due to our recent encounter with audit firms when collecting data on questionnaire surveys. The responses were very discouraging. Hence motivated us to examine and document the responses of these practitioners towards academic survey.
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author	Puat Nelson, Sherliza Ahmad, Maslina Zainal Abidin, Nor Hafizah
author_facet	Puat Nelson, Sherliza Ahmad, Maslina Zainal Abidin, Nor Hafizah
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title	Attitude towards academic survey among audit firms in Malaysia: some challenges
title_short	Attitude towards academic survey among audit firms in Malaysia: some challenges
title_full	Attitude towards academic survey among audit firms in Malaysia: some challenges
title_fullStr	Attitude towards academic survey among audit firms in Malaysia: some challenges
title_full_unstemmed	Attitude towards academic survey among audit firms in Malaysia: some challenges
title_sort	attitude towards academic survey among audit firms in malaysia: some challenges
publisher	Penerbit UMT
publishDate	2019
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/76097/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/76097/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/76097/1/Nelson%20Ahmad%20and%20Zainal-Abidin%202019.pdf
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Attitude towards academic survey among audit firms in Malaysia: some challenges

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