Abstract:<p>Hindsight bias is the tendency for individuals who have been provided with the outcome of an uncertain event to systematically overstate their abilities to have predicted that outcome in foresight. Individuals also rate cues supporting this known outcome as more relevant than the cues supporting alternative outcomes. In an experiment using the case data of a troubled company, the current study explores the effects of outcome information on both experienced and inexperienced auditors' going-concern jud… Show more
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