Reviews the book "Auditing Symposium III: Proceedings of the 1976 Touche Ross/University of Kansas Symposium on Auditing Problems," edited by Howard F. Stettler.
Presents a commentary on a study by John C. Corless which addressed how the Bayesian evaluation of audit evidence compares with the auditors' intuitive evaluations of the same evidence using prior distributions. Cases reviewed by auditors in the study; Skepticism on the conclusion of the study; Commendation for Corless.