@article{2018,title={PROFESSİONAL SKEPTICISM OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITOR},abstractNode={The fact that professional skepticismis one of the key instruments of performing an effective audit, which is often emphasized both in the literature and in international audit standards.The main reason that brings institutions creating standards and researchers to underline this point is that the insufficiency of professional skepticism is shown among the most important reasons of failure in many studies performed on audit failures.The basic approaches of professional skepticism in the literature , on which there is not enough study in Turkey yet, were presented in this study. Later,through the questionnaire created by adapting Hurtt’s (2010) professional skepticism scale to Turkish, the auditors’ levels of professional skepticism were evaluated through several factors. The results of the research have revealed that auditors’ levels of professional skepticism are high, but, their decision making ability score (autonomy) is very low.},author={F.Didem GÖÇMEN},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}