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Audit staff scheduling is an integral part of audit planning and control. It is also a very important part of the audit planning and control process due to the desire of the management to control auditing costs, plan the impacted time of the auditors efficiently, and meet the clients’ deadlines. In fact, efficient audit scheduling can be used to set these deadlines based on the audit or accounting firm’s capacity. Through efficient scheduling audit firms can determine the load and schedule of every auditor, over time requirements, travel schedules and costs, and can respond to changes in the information set (input data) easily.
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Dodin, B. (1999). Project Management in Audit Staff Scheduling. In: Węglarz, J. (eds) Project Scheduling. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5533-9_22
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