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Krishnan, Jagannathan. "Auditor switching, opinion shopping and client size." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1279133916.
Full textSands, John Stephen, and n/a. "Auditor Switching - A Two-Stage Decision Process: An Empirical Study of Australian Companies." Griffith University. Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, 1996. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20050901.152229.
Full textSands, John Stephen. "Auditor Switching - A Two-Stage Decision Process: An Empirical Study of Australian Companies." Thesis, Griffith University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366910.
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Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
Griffith Business School
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Arvidsson, Wallberg Angelica, and Alexandra Åhlén. "Ekonomisk förlust för revisionsbyråer : En studie över revisorers fortlevnadsvarningar i Sverige." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-22393.
Full textAim: The reporting of an organizations going concern has been center for debate during a long period of time. This is mainly due to auditing scandals where organizations have gone bankrupt without a modified going concern opinion from their auditor. In accounting literature there are conflicting claims about whether auditors are considered independent or not due to their tendency to issue a going concern modified opinion and the influence financial incentives have on auditor independence. The aim of this essay is to: Examine if there is a relation between the tendency to issue a going concern modified opinion and the financial loss for the audit firm. Method: From previous research hypotheses have been deduced. These hypotheses have then empirically been studied. A quantitative method was used to gather data from Swedish companies’ annual reports from the year 2011-2014. After gathering the data, it was tested and analyzed with a stats program and then presented in different tables. Result & Conclusions: This study has found evidence of the self-fulfilling prophecy, which indicates that the auditor withdraws from issuing a going concern modified opinion. Regarding the financial incentives as threats of audit independence, this study gives evidence that the size of Non-audit service fees poses a potential threat. The results of the study also show that there is no significant difference in quality between Big 4 and Non-Big 4 auditors regarding the issuance of going concern modified opinions. Suggestions for future research: In this study the financial factors have been taken into account, a combination of both the financial and non-financial factors is the suggestion for future research. A third limitation of this study is that is based upon the auditors’ perspective, therefore a study based solely on the companies' perspective or a combination of both is our suggestion for future research. Contribution of the thesis: This thesis contributes with more knowledge to the accounting literature. The study has provided more knowledge about the self-fulfilling prophecy, financial incentives on audit independence and the quality among Big 4 and non-Big 4 audit firms. This thesis has also contributed to further understanding of how problematic it can be for an auditor to issue a going concern modified opinion.
Riccardi, William III. "An Empirical Analysis of the Global Audit Market: International Financial Reporting Standards-Related Changes and Differences within the Big 4 Global Networks." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1440.
Full textMay, Amy. "Audit market concentration, auditor switching and audit fee pricing : an investigation of the UK private company audit market, 2005-2012." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16012/.
Full textTaranu, Mihaela. "Commonalities and differences in visual and auditory multistability." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/11983.
Full textGogani, Roya, and Jonathan Nyrén. "Revisorernas kostnad av att utge en going concern- varning." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-15697.
Full textThe information that the auditor provides in their audit report should be valid in the eyes of the stakeholders of the company. The auditor should be the independent link between the company and its stakeholders. When reading the audit report, one expects to find all the possible economic problems identified in it, however this is not always the case. It is crucial that the audit of a company’s going concern is reliable. Decisions regarding going concern-modified opinions should be independent and be based on valid information regarding the company’s economic situation. One faulty going concern-modified opinion can set off a whole range of issues and revenue loss for both the company and the audit firm. Consequently stakeholders can lose their trust in the company resulting in a change of audit firm. This thesis is focused on whether or not auditors might be reluctant to hand out going concern-modified opinions in fear of losing a client and the revenue associated with it. Therefore, the thesis investigates whether or not there is a relationship between lost revenue and the first instance of issuing a going concern-modified opinion for Swedish companies. This thesis is also investigating whether the issuance of a going concern-modified opinion will increase the possibility of the company going bankrupt, the so-called self-fulfilling prophecy. A contribution to the previous research regarding the going concern issue is the consideration of audit tenure. We have used 432 companies with fiscal year 2009 extracted from the database Affärsdata. Out of this selection, 216 had been issued a going concern-modified opinion. This test group is then compared to the control group with the same number of companies that were identified as financially distressed but without receiving a going concern- modified opinion. The thesis has used the statistical program SPSS to complete the calculations needed to complete the analysis. The result shows a positive relationship between the first going concern-modified opinion and the change of audit firms. The period of time the auditing requires also effects the predisposition to issue a going concern-modified opinion. However the study was unable to find any statistical evidence for the so-called self-fulfilling prophecy.
Seibold, Julia Christine [Verfasser], Iring [Akademischer Betreuer] Koch, and Miriam [Akademischer Betreuer] Gade. "Examining independently switching components of auditory task sets : towards a general mechanism of multicomponent switching / Julia Christine Seibold ; Iring Koch, Miriam Gade." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1196018324/34.
Full textPONNAMANENI, SANJITH KUMAR. "A NOVEL AUDIO AMPLILFIER COMBINING LINEAR AND SWITCHING TECHNIQUES." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1109274094.
Full textGinart, Antonio. "Single ended switching analog audio amplifier with dead zone." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/15767.
Full textSvadbík, Vít. "Návrh a konstrukce spínaného audio koncového zesilovače." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-218603.
Full textSvadbík, Pavel. "Digitální nízkofrekvenční zesilovač s univerzálními vstupy." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-219816.
Full textGarach, Hematlal. "Auditor switching." Diss., 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16827.
Full textThis study explores the phenomenon of auditor switching. The purpose of this study is to further contribute to the auditor switching literature by examining the reasons client companies in South Africa switch auditors, where the topic has not previously been studied and following a period of rapid and significant change in the auditing profession. Using previous literature as a foundation, forty-four variables that contribute to auditor switching are presented and tested based on empirical data elicited by means of a questionnaire survey of sample companies that experienced auditor switching during the period 1 January 1998 to 30 June 1999 as obtained from Practitioners in the KwaZulu-Natal Region. The factors motivating auditor switching were based on a questionnaire response of seventy-five companies (response rate 67% ). The empirical study also tested whether or not the switch variables thus identified are statistically related to auditor switching. The findings of this study revealed that audit fees are both the most frequently cited reason for switching auditors and found to be statistically significant at the 0.05 level of significance. Dissatisfaction over the overall quality of services provided by the auditor, lack of communication including the lack of responsiveness to client needs, poor working relationship with audit partner followed as switch factors but were not found to be statistically significant at 0. 05 level. The findings of this study revealed that two other variables, namely, management change and the need for group auditor rationalisation, appear to be significantly related to auditor switching at the 0.05 1evel of significance.
Auditing
M. Comm. (Auditing)
賴桂蓮. "The Impact of Non-audit Services and Auditor Switching on Auditor Independence." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89920444665155465295.
Full text國立交通大學
管理學院碩士在職專班管理科學組
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This study aims to explore how the audit opinion would be influenced by auditors’ joint provisions of the audit and non-audit services, auditor switching, the price war in the audit fees and concentration of directors’ shareholdings. The relation between the influence and the independence of auditor will be further discussed. The evidence indicates that auditors prefer to provide standard unqualified audit reports for companies with higher ratio of non-audit fees, greater insider ownership. Auditors provide standard unqualified opinions when there is non-audit service provided, because the auditors might benefit from the company according to the factor of economic. The research has also discovered that qualified audit report and auditor switching is closely linked. It implies that companies which received the qualification opinion intend to switch auditors. The results suggest that the independence of auditors is harmed through auditor non-audit fees and auditor consecutive engagement.
Mu, Hui-Chin, and 牧慧勤. "The Determinants of Public Firms’ Initial Auditor Switching." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3yy35q.
Full text國立中興大學
會計學研究所
99
Auditor switching has been an extensively discussed academic issue, and the results change with the time and the background. This study suggests that the earnings management behavior and the financial position of the company before and after initial public offering will affect a company’s auditor switching decision. Therefore, this study combines the initial public offering issue with the auditor witching issue and investigates the determinants of initial auditor switching after the company went public. This study suggests that the audit quality offered by the same-sized audit firm is similar and therefore focuses on auditor switching between different-sized firms. This study adopts companies as samples which not only had initial public offerings from 1991 to 2010 but also switched auditors afterwards. The Logistic regression is adopted to examine the hypotheses. The empirical results indicate that, after the companies had the initial public offerings, when they had declining performance and frequent management change, they switched their auditors from a big firm to a non- big firm. And when they got bigger in size, they switched auditors from a non- big firm to a big firm.
YI-HUEI, SU, and 蘇奕卉. "The Relationship between Restatement, Auditor Switching and Quality of Financial Statement." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30223622235394216766.
Full text國立彰化師範大學
會計學系
102
In recent years, many companies restated financial statement frequently, affecting the usefulness of the financial statements seriously and the public trust, making people doubted the quality of financial statements. Therefore, the issues of restatement have caused the attention of accountants, banks and regulatory authorities. Current literature of financial restatement indicated that companies are more likely to switch auditors when the financial restatement occurs. This paper further explored the quality of financial statement after changing auditor accompanied by restating financial statements. Furthermore, this paper discusses that whether the switching style of auditor affect the quality of financial statement. The empirical results show that companies which restated financial statements replacing the current auditor will improve the quality of financial statements. Additionally, the switching style of the auditor will affect the quality of the financial statements. When company switched the non-big four auditors to the Big Four auditors and switched from the Big Four auditors to another big four auditors the quality of financial statements is improved.
Wen, Yu-Hsin, and 溫玉新. "The Relationship Between Auditor switching and Audit quality:From perspective of abnormal accruals." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54990113339771871949.
Full text國立臺北大學
會計學系
91
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of auditor switching and audit quality. We analyze auditors’ attitude for management’s accounting treatment, and focus on the difference of audit quality when companies switch incumbent auditors. Z This study selects 59 companies (236 samples)between 1999 and 2001 in Taiwan . It takes the industry cross-sectional modified Jones model to estimate abnormal accruals as proxy variables for audit quality, and uses multivariate tests to analyze abnormal accruals in each of the last two years with the predecessor auditors and the first two years with the successor auditors. Z The results indicate that, before companies change auditors, auditors prefer conservative accounting choices in the last year with the predecessor auditors. However, we did not find out any difference of audit quality in year-1 to year 1, and we did not find out successor auditors’ attitude become less conservative, neither.
王珮茹. "The Relationship between Restatement and Auditor Switching - In the View of Corporate Governance." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81834689872810157600.
Full text國立彰化師範大學
會計學系
100
Recently, the occurrence of finacial restatement has increased dramatically. The erosion in the quality of financial reporting as evidenced by the proliferation of finacial restatement has caused the attention of regulators, audit firms, and companies. Literature of finacial restatement indicated that the switch of relationship between auditor and client when the finacial restatement occurs. This study investigates whether the warning in the audit opionin before the finacial restatement occurs affects the possibility of auditor switching. Additionally, the board of directors plays the core role in the corporate governance. The board of directors is responsible for hiring an external auditor. This study also investigates whether the corporate governance mechanisms affects the possibility of auditor switching when auditor is unable to warn before the finacial restatement. The empirical results indicate that the auditor is less likely to be dismissed when he makes the warning before the financial restatement. Furthermore, our result also suggests that the lower ratio of insiders on the board and the higher ratio of board seats held by outside directors, the higher probability of auditor switching in the event of financial restatement. In other words, with the improvement of corporate government, the company is more likely to choose high-quality auditor.
Tuan, Ming-chuan, and 段明娟. "An Empirical Research of Auditor Switching Prior to The Public Offering of The Newly Listed Issues In Taiwan." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64696317932558484901.
Full text國立臺灣大學
會計學研究所
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The main purpose of this research is to examine whether the newly listed firms will employ more credible auditors,if auditor switching occurred prior to the public offering,and to investigate the relationship between underwriter prestige and auditor switching in Taiwan. We make conclusions from this empirical research as follows.First, the newly listed firm tents to replace a small auditor with a more reputable one, if auditor switching occurred prior to the public offering.Second, there is no significant relationship between underwriter prestige and auditor switching of newly listed firms.Third,the smaller the firm size, the more likely the newly listed firm switches to reputable auditor. Fourth,the average rate of sale growth is not significantly related to the auditor credibilty, while the observed sample is defined as those who changed the auditor during the four years before the public offering. However, the average rate of sale growth is negatively related to the auditor credibilty, if the observed sample is defined as those who changed the auditor during the three years before the public offering. Finally, the firm age is negatively related to the auditor credibility, when the newly listed firm switched the auditor prior to the public offering.
Barnes, Heather J. "The response switching effect." 1988. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/2138.
Full textKuan-Chin, Lu, and 盧冠瑾. "The Relationship among Switching Cost, Agency Cost and Auditors’ Tenure." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63102961617644692946.
Full text國立中正大學
會計與資訊科技研究所
103
This paper examines the relationship among switching costs, agency costs and auditors’ tenure during 2003 to 2013. Our country implements mandatory auditor-partner rotation regime in 2003 to enhance auditor independence and abridging the relationship between auditors and client. However, auditors’ cooling periods are not included in this auditor-partner rotation regime, which makes part of audit client and their former auditors still maintain their relationship with each other. Therefore, in 2009, the revised regime of auditor-partner rotation is implemented again in SAS No.46. Under this unique background in Taiwan, this paper explores the relationship among switching costs, agency costs, which are the demand factors and auditors’ tenure. The empirical results are that: in auditors one, switching costs (auditors’ accumulated tenure and discretionary Accruals) have a greater impact on auditor’s tenure and they are positive significant correlations. In auditors two, switching costs (company’s total assets and auditors’ accumulated tenure) have a greater impact on auditor’s tenure and they are positive significant correlations. As to auditors whose tenure beyond the mandatory tenure, agency costs (numbers of subsidiaries and numbers of board of directors) have a greater impact on auditor’s tenure.
Chou, Yu-Cheng, and 周煜程. "A Study of Switching Auditors Determinations─The Case of Publicly Owned Corporations." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33594866081758820548.
Full text淡江大學
會計學系
90
Abstract: When the demand for auditing methods within a company has changed, the most frequent step taken by the company is to switch its auditor. Majority of the research studies done on this topic in Taiwan is to find out the underlining reasons why companies switched their auditor. Because of TSE listed and OTC Registered companies are regulated by government agencies, local and state laws, and also by national security exchange corporations, there are only a handful of cases where these companies switched their auditors. For that reason, the results produced by these studies are probably inaccurate due to the small number of test cases available. Therefore, by focusing our research on publicly offered companies, which are less strictly regulated, we hope to find out the real reasons why companies took such a step. This research focuses on publicly offered companies and the associated accounting firms. It identifies the factors produced by the company and those resulted from the accounting firm that cause the company to switch its auditor. Our research was done by obtaining relevant data via surveys and analysis done on the basis of the information acquired from organization context. Chi-square test, factors analysis, one-way ANOVA analysis, and logistic regression were also used to process the data to obtain the reasons acknowledged by publicly offered companies and the associated accounting firms respectively as to why a publicly offered company would switch its auditor. We have obtained the following results: 1. The organization context has a relationship with the categories in the survey. 2. Factors analysis revealed that certain differences exist between the reasons for changing auditors believed by publicly offered companies and those believed by the accounting firms. 3. The differences among organization context of individual companies have caused factors identified by them to switch their auditors. 4. From factors analysis, we can conclude that how a company is operated and its future development are the two primary factors why a company switch its auditors. On the other hand, results from the study of the organization context have revealed that the services offered by the company, the number of years since its operation, and its industry would also produce obvious effects for a publicly offered company in its decision to switch its auditors.
Rojas, Gonzalez Miguel Angel. "Design and Implementation of Switching Voltage Integrated Circuits Based on Sliding Mode Control." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-7184.
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