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Efficiency of Sieve Sampling in Auditing

Dollar-unit sampling is a popular method for sampling accounts by auditors. In this article, we analyze and compare two methods of obtaining dollar-unit samples, simple random sampling and sieve ...
Harvard Business School

The Four Roles of Sampling in Auditing: Representative, Corrective, Protective and Preventive

Kaplan, Robert S., and Yuri Ijiri. "The Four Roles of Sampling in Auditing: Representative, Corrective, Protective and Preventive." Management Accounting 52 (December 1970): 42–44.
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A Combined Bound for Errors in Auditing Based on Hoeffding's Inequality and the Bootstrap

For an accounting population's total error amount, confidence bounds that are reliable but not too conservative help auditors avoid costly overauditing. Parametric ...
Investopedia

Simple Random Sampling: 6 Basic Steps With Examples

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Investopedia

Systematic Sampling: What Is It, and How Is It Used in Research?

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...