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Strategic Auditing for Fraud Author(s): Sanford Morton Source: The Accounting Review, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Oct., 1993), pp. 825-839 Published by: American Accounting Association Stable URL: /stable/248506 Accessed: 13/05/2009 08:27 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use, available at /page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at /action/showPublisher?publisherCode=aaasoc. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@. American Accounting Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Accounting Review. THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW Vol. 68, No. 4 October 1993 pp. 825-839 Strategic Auditing for Fraud Sanford Morton University of British Columbia SYNOPSIS AND INTRODUCTION:Two features of currentaudit prac- tice are striking.First,auditorsoften use samplingmethodsto auditproba- bilistically. Second, the probabilityof auditing is usually contingent on infor