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Aronsson, Jonathan, and Adam Granstedt. "A Qualitative Look into Auditor’s Going Concern Assessment." Thesis, Jönköping University, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52925.
Full textHooi, Den Huan. "Audit considerations in assessing the application of the going concern concept." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633029.
Full textSikka, Prem Nath. "Towards an understanding of accounting and society : some episodes in the formulation and development of the going concern concept." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262708.
Full textVaritimidou, Kaliopi, and Josephine Söderberg. "Going concern : En revisors dilemma." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för ekonomi och företagande, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-6427.
Full textGrönlund, Anton, and Sandra Hallgren. "Hur påverkar bolags finansiella stress revisorers formuleringar av going concern yttranden?" Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för ekonomivetenskap och juridik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-29019.
Full textFinancial information is supposed to be quality assured and form the basis foreconomic decision-making for stakeholders. Some of this information affects the auditor's obligation to assess a company's survival skills, going concern, and to speak about this. Previously, two steps has been identified in the process to issue a going concern opinion but researchers in the field believe that it is necessary to add a third stage; the clarity with which the opinion is formulated. What affects the decision to issue a going concern opinion and the formulation of these opinions is uncertain, but some scholars believe that when clients are financially stressed more opinions are issued. Furthermore they believe that the more financially stressed a company is the more clearly the auditor's opinion is formulated. In the current situation is no standard for how Swedish auditors exactly should formulate their opinions. The auditors thus have the power to influence how stakeholders perceive a company'sgoing concern.The purpose of this study was to explore how clearly Swedish auditors formulates going concern opinions in the bankrupt company's latest audit report, and identify how different types of indicators of financial stress affects the clarity of the auditors formulations. The sampling frame consisted of all Swedish companies that have gone bankrupt during the period from January to September of 2014. 4443 companies were examined of which 358 met the criteria for the study and thus constituted the basis for the analysis and conclusion. The result was produced by ordinal logistic regression and show that Swedish auditors largely formulates clear going concern opinions and some indicators of financial stress has an impact on the clarity of thegoing concern opinions. The study shows that three indicators of financial stress ”equity is less than half the share capital, deficit in retained earnings, long-term debt divided by total assets” affects the formulation of going concern opinions.
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Johansson, Lukas, and Jennie Karlsson. "REVISORERS GRANSKNING AV GOING CONCERN UNDER KRIS : En studie om going concern under coronapandemin och finanskrisen." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för handel och företagande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-20062.
Full textBackground: Going concern is one of the basic principles in accounting, which means that companies must continue their operations in the foreseeable future. In previous research studies have been done on how the corona pandemic generally has affected the auditors review, while this study examines what the auditors' review of going concern has shown during the corona pandemic. There are already studies on the financial crisis linked to going concern, but there is no previous research regarding differences and similarities between the corona pandemic and the financial crisis. Research questions: How and why have the auditors' review of the ability to continue operating (going concern) changed during the corona pandemic and the financial crisis?What are the differences and similarities between the financial crisis and the corona pandemic regarding the auditors review of going concern? Purpose of study: The purpose of the study is to gain an understanding of how the auditors examine the ability to continue operations (going concern) during the corona pandemic and the financial crisis and why the auditors examine changes during these crises. In the study, the institutional pressure will help to create an understanding of why auditors examine change during crises. The study will also examine from the auditors' perspective whether there are any differences or similarities in significant uncertainties, appropriate audit evidence and an in-depth review between the financial crisis and the corona pandemic. Results and conclusion: The study's conclusions are that the auditors' review of the going concern has changed during the corona pandemic and the financial crisis, which contributes to the review not looking the same during a crisis. The corona pandemic and the financial crisis has led to the introduction of new laws and regulations, which auditors must follow and can be explained by institutional pressure. This has contributed to a more in-depth audit and also to the fact that the auditors must ensure that the audited evidence obtained is of a high quality. The study has identified that there are differences and similarities regarding the auditors' review of the going concern between the corona pandemic and the financial crisis, which stems from significant uncertainties, appropriate audit evidence and in-depth review.
Bengtsson, Felicia, and Lovisa Sundberg. "Revisionskvalitet: Effekten av långa och många revisionsuppdrag." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomi, geografi, juridik och turism, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-39127.
Full textAudit is an important function for corporate stakeholders as an assurance that the company's corporate information is to be trusted. Due to audit scandals around the world, the quality of the audit has been questioned. In order to increase the quality of the audit, requirements have been introduced for auditor rotation for companies of general interest in Sweden. For a person-elected auditor, the term of office may not exceed seven years. Later the company must change the auditor. Furthermore, Martin Johansson, former CEO of the Swedish Auditors' Association (SRS), believes that over 200 assignments per auditor adversely affect the quality of the audit and that a range between 70 and 150 assignments is optimal.The purpose of the study is to describe and analyze whether the length of the audit assignment and the number of assignments affect the quality of the audit and to discuss this in terms of independence and competence. By measuring going concern statements from the auditor for the fiscal year before the company went into bankruptcy, the study shows no relationship between the length of the audit assignment and the quality of the audit. It isn’t possible to state that shorter or longer audit assignments provide better or worse audit quality. Nor does the study find any connection between the number of assignments and audit quality. The study doesn’t find an optimal number of assignments with regard to audit quality. By contrast, the auditors surveyed are just above the 70 to 150 assignments.
Adam, Silke. "Das Going-Concern-Prinzip in der Jahresabschlussprüfung /." Wiesbaden : Dt. Univ.-Verl, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015672001&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textRheborg, Andersson Paulina, and Amanda Palm. "Hur tydligt utformas going concern-varningar?" Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för ekonomivetenskap och juridik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-20896.
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Abdel, Zaher Angie M. "Executive Characteristics and Going Concern Opinions." FIU Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/93.
Full textKarlsson, Malin, and Emma Persson. "Differentierad effekt av en Going Concern-varning - Låg revisionskvalitet eller hög företagskvalitet?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-34684.
Full textRickardsson, Sara, and Susann Bienkowska. "Revisorers going concern-utlåtande i svenska aktiebolag : - en studie ur revisorsperspektiv gällande utfärdade eller uteblivna going concern-varningar." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-28621.
Full textBirgersson, Sophie, and Linn Qvarnlöf. "Going concern or going concerned? : En studie om hur revisorns ålder och auktorisationstid påverkar revisionskvalitet i norra Sverige." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-146285.
Full textPalmquist, Sara, Susanne Adler, and Mirelle Brogren. "Sambandet mellan revisionskvalitet och längden på revisionsuppdraget : empirisk undersökning av Going Concern varning." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-9641.
Full textAtt en revisor bringar god kvalitet till arbetet denne utför har en stor betydelse, inte bara för företaget i fråga utan även för dess intressenter. Informationen som företaget lämnar ut får på så vis större trovärdighet tack vare revisorns kvalitetssäkring. Att längden på revisionsuppdraget skulle påverka kvaliteten har det forskats om med olika resultat, utifrån vilket land den utförts i och vilken lagstadgande som råder i respektive land eller region. Vi har i uppsatsen valt att studera hur revisionskvaliteten påverkas av längden på revisonsuppdraget i Sverige. Utifrån forskning som utförts i Belgien har hypoteser utformats med faktorer som kan påverka revisonskvaliteten. Variabler har sedan tagits fram för att mäta faktorn kvaliteten på revisionen med hjälp av GCV, arvode, Big 4, omsättningen i företaget, antal anställda samt revisionsuppdragets längd. Vårt fokus i arbetet är att, utifrån om företagen fått en GCV eller inte, se sambandet mellan revisionskvaliteten och längden på revisionsuppdraget. Detta har vi undersökt genom att studera 19 506 konkursdrabbade företag och 1 117 finansiellt nödställda företag. Undersökningen har endast bestått av insamling av primärdata. Genom analysering har inget samband kunnat fastställas mellan längden på revisonsuppdraget och revisionskvaliteten med ett antal förklarande variabler. Undersökningen visar att längden på revisionsuppdraget i konkursdrabbade bolag inte har något samband med revisionskvaliteten. För de finansiellt nödställda företagen saknas stöd för resultatet.
Palečko, Michal. "Ocenění společnosti INTERSNACK a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-193541.
Full textPeixinho, Rúben. "How do analysts deal with bad news? Going-concern opinions and analyst behaviour - A systematic review." Master's thesis, Cranfield University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4490.
Full textThis study systematically reviews the literature that can constitute the foundations for the connection of two areas that have hitherto been developed separately: analyst behaviour and going-concern opinions. Financial literature claims that analyst judgement is biased given their tendency to systematically underreact in the presence of bad news and their tendency to systematically overreact in the presence of good news. Considering that going-concern modifications constitute an unambiguous and acute case of bad news, this event presents a unique opportunity to explore analysts’ anticipation of and reaction to the presence of bad news. This analysis can provide further evidence on analysts’ optimism and their role in the apparent delayed impact of bad news to investors. A systematic review of the literature is developed in order to guarantee methodological rigour in the review process. The systematic search for studies in the refined scope finds 40 papers that are analysed and synthesised. These papers are discussed in order to justify the potential gap in the literature and the research opportunities available for a doctoral study. The results suggest that the connection between these areas can sustain a doctoral study and contribute for the development of the accounting and finance framework.
Samuelsson, Emil, and Robert Carleson. "Bakomliggande faktorer till revisorers utfärdande av going-concern varningar : En studie om vad som orsakar going-concern varningar för finansiellt belastade företag." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-35887.
Full textInledning: Revisorers going-concern varningar ger uttryck för kvalitetssäkrande av information och om dessa utfärdas på felaktiga grunder blir intressenterna vilseledda. Tidigare forskning har visat att revisorer inte har några större svårigheter med att identifiera företag som är finansiellt belastade i den mån att de riskerar att få going-concern varningar. Internationella studier om determinanter till going-concern varningar har istället främst fokuserat på revisorers beslut gällande företag som redan är i finansiellt dåligt skick. Revisorns grunder för att utfärda going-concern varningar kan vara kopplade till faktorer som är relaterade till klientföretaget, revisorn, revisionsbyrån, relationen mellan klientföretag och revisor samt omgivningen. Syfte: Syftet med examensarbetet är att reda ut vilka specifika bakomliggande faktorer som påverkar revisorns utfärdande av going-concern varningar för finansiellt belastade företag. Metod: Inledningsvis genomförde vi en kvalitativ förstudie genom intervjuer med revisorer för att utöka vår kunskap i ämnet samt framställa hypoteser. Huvuddelen av undersökningen utgår dock från en kvantitativ metod där vi samlat in data från finansiellt belastade företags årsredovisningar och därefter analyserat datamaterialet.
Håkansson, Robert, and Josefin Pettersson. "Vad förklarar revisionskvalitet? : En studie om revisorns benägenhet att ge en going concern-varning." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-19102.
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.
Vasquez, Geraldo. "Does a venture capitalist influence auditor going concern decisions?" Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/467897.
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A growing number of firms that go public (e.g., IPO) are financially distressed often for several years of their initial existence, raising concerns about their ability to remain going concerns. Yet many IPOs do not receive going concern opinions (GCO) from their auditors who are charged with providing an assessment of their clients’ going concern status. A key feature of the IPOs is that a significant proportion of them are financed by venture capitalists (VCs). Unlike conventional sources of financing, such as banks, a VC offers financial as well as non-financial support to the new firm such as mentorship, strategic guidance and network access. The VC also provides monitoring as a member of the board of directors. An auditor’s assessment of its client’s going concern situation includes an audit of its financial statements and, if the client is financially distressed and in danger of ceasing to be a going concern, a review of factors that may mitigate the need for a GCO. I hypothesize that going concern opinions are assessed less often to financially distressed IPOs because the VC’s presence is viewed by the auditor as a factor that mitigates the need for a GCO. Thus, I explore whether the presence of a VC – in contrast to the presence of a banker – tempers the likelihood of issuance of a GCO to a financially distressed firm. I also explore whether varying degrees of involvement by a VC serve to mitigate an auditor’s need to issue a GCO since VCs are not all equally effective in their roles. I find support for hypothesis (H1) that going concern opinions are assessed less often to financially distressed IPOs with venture capital backing than to those with other forms of financial backing (e.g., banker financing) and no support for hypothesis (H2) that the negative association between the presence of a VC and the issuance of a going concern opinion to a financially distressed IPO is stronger the greater the involvement of a VC. This study will inform industry regulators, concerned with transparency and the adequacy of financial disclosures, determine whether financial disclosure requirements should be enhanced to account for the presence of a VC . This study will also assist institutional and individual investors understand the risk that a VC-backed IPO may fail even when a GCO was not issued by an auditor.
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Scheffczyk, Eva. "Untersuchung der rechtlichen Überschuldung bei der Jahresabschlussprüfung im Rahmen der Going-Concern-Annahme." Lohmar Köln Eul, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2928047&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full textAsare, Stephen Kwaku. "The auditors' going concern opinion decision: Interaction of task variables and the sequential processing of evidence." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184633.
Full textMård, Elisabeth, and Jannie Söderberg. "Going-Concern utlåtande : - en studie av svenska konkursdrabbade publika aktiebolag." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-126584.
Full textFör omvärlden kom Enrons krasch som en chock men det fanns de som visste vad som pågick inom bolaget. Bland annat var ansvarig revisor införstådd med de finansiella svårigheterna men valde ändå att inte påpeka detta i revisionsberättelsen. Flera studier indikerar att detta är fallet även för andra bolag då resultaten visade på en liten andel going-concern utlåtanden trots hotande konkurs. Det här väcker tankar om revisorns utlåtande verkligen ska ses som en garanti. Enron-skandalen väckte även frågor kring revisorns oberoende då det framkom att samma revisor reviderat bolaget i flera år. Syftet med denna uppsats är därmed att undersöka om svenska publika aktiebolag som gått i konkurs erhållit ett going-concern utlåtande från revisorn i den senaste årsredovisningen. Vi ämnar även se om det finns ett samband mellan going-concern utlåtande och konkurs samt mellan going-concern utlåtande och revisorns mandatperiod. För att uppnå syftet valde vi att utifrån den teoretiska referensramen formulera tre hypoteser som vi därefter prövade kvantitativt genom att samla in årsredovisningar och granska tillhörande revisionsberättelser för samtliga konkursdrabbade publika aktiebolag mellan år 1997-2010. För att säkerställa delar av resultatet genomförde vi även en statistisk prövning av hypotes 2 och 3 genom Cramers kontingenskoefficient V.
I den första hypotesen undersökte vi om mindre än hälften av de svenska konkursdrabbade publika aktiebolagen erhöll ett going-concern utlåtande i den senaste årsredovisningen. Utifrån resultatet kunde vi konstatera att det var 18,2 procent av bolagen som erhöll ett goingconcern utlåtande i årsredovisningen närmast konkursen, vilket ligger i linje med tidigare studier. I den andra hypotesen undersökte vi om det fanns ett samband mellan going-concern utlåtande och konkurs, om andelen bolag som erhöll ett going-concern utlåtande ökade ju närmre bolagen var en konkurs. Resultatet visade att andelen going-concern utlåtanden var få för samtliga år men ökade ju närmre bolagen var en konkurs. Den statistiska analysen ger stöd till hypotesen och visar att det finns ett signifikant samband mellan utlåtande och konkurs. I den tredje och sista hypotesen undersökte vi om det fanns ett samband mellan going-concern utlåtande och revisorns mandatperiod, om andelen bolag som erhöll ett going-concern utlåtande ökade vid ett revisorsbyte. Resultatet visar att det inte fanns något samband mellan revisorsbyte och going-concern utlåtande då samtliga bolag som fått detta utlåtande inte bytt revisor. Detta bekräftas även av den statistiska prövningen. Bland de bolag där revisorsbyte genomfördes kunde vi däremot urskilja ett mönster som visade att endast de bolag som gjorde externa byten erhöll orena revisioner efter revisorsbytet.
Ejaz, Azad. "Using a Bayesian Belief Network for Going-Concern Risk Evaluation." NSUWorks, 2005. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/500.
Full textBengtsson, Emma, and Rebecka Carnander. "Livet efter en going-concern varning : En studie om företagskommunikation efter en GCV." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-36072.
Full textBackground: One of the worst things that can happen to a business is to receive a going-concern warning. That is due to the fact that a going-concern warning is a signal to stakeholders concerning the matter that it is a risk that the business will not survive the next twelve months. Earlier studies have examined the effects of a going-concern warning on the businesses stakeholders and what happens to companies in the short term. That has made us want to examine how business leaders act to avoid bankruptcy and liquidation and therefore survive a going-concern warning. Purpose: The purpose of our study is to explain how business leaders act in order to survive a going-concern warning. The focus of the study will be on communication. To fulfill this purpose we will construct a model. Method: The study has a deductive research approach with a base in resource dependence theory, attribution theory and institutional theory. The empirical data is of a quantitative nature and is collected through survey and a document study of annual reports. Conclusion: We have come to the conclusion that receiving a going-concern warning will be experienced like a crisis by companies. Due to scarce resources companies will need to priorities their stakeholder in order to keep the ones relevant to the survival of the business. Business leaders will identify relevant stakeholder by examining the presence of power, legitimacy and urgency in stakeholder-manager relationships. Companies will in order to keep a good relationship with their stakeholders communicate though information channels directed towards the public and specific stakeholders. To reduce the effects of a going-concern warning companies will use primary and secondary crisis response strategies.
Kallin, Karin. "Going-concern varning, en självuppfyllande profetia eller ett "wake up call"? : faktorer som påverkar utfallet av revisorers yttrande gällande företagets fortsatta drift." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-9635.
Full textThe accounting is prepared with the assumption that the companies will continue as a going concern. However, the principle will be waived if the assumption is unwarranted. The auditor will, as part of the examination, consider the companies' living ability. If the auditor is in doubt about the companies' going concern, they are obligated to report it in the audit report. Due to the fact it is an assessment about future events, it is one of the most difficult parts for an auditor to consider. Recent research indicates that 90 percent of the companies receiving a going concern-warning (GCW) do not subsequently fail. Among the remaining ten percent, which should compose correct judgements, some researchers claim that the warning is self-fulfilling and accelerates or even causes the bankruptcy. On the other hand, there are also researchers who report that no such self-fulfilling prophecy exists. Limited empirical material exists concerning the fact that it may be specific for each company whether it survives or ceases after receiving a GCW, a gap that this paper aims to fill. The aim will be met by investigating, and thus obtain knowledge about, factors that affect a company's state of living after receiving a GCW. Merged results from recent research indicate that age, capital structure, company structure, net sales and size of the auditing firm are influencing factors. By statistical hypothesis testing, based on data from the companies' annual reports, the correlation between these factors and life status was investigated. The sample consisted of limited companies which, as its only or most serious remark, received a GCW for the first time in 2012. After some screening, 188 companies were left to constitute the sample of the study. The obtained results were that the companies which continued as a going concern, were older, had lower debt to total asset ratio, belonged to a concern and were audited by a big audit firm in 2012. Opposite to predicted hypotheses, they also had higher interest-bearing debt to total asset ratio. No difference of matter was discerned regarding net sales. However, in many cases the differences were too small to statistically prove the differences, given the large variation which existed. The only conclusion that can be generalized is that group companies with higher interest-bearing debt to total asset ratio continue as a going concern to a greater extent.
Vermeer, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward). "Auditor's Reporting Practices for an Entity's Ability to Continue as a Going Concern: The Impact of SAS no. 59." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc935723/.
Full textJohansson, Sara, and David Wasserman. "Revisorn : livbojen på ett stormigt hav? En studie om sambandet mellan revision och de svenska småbolagens konkurser." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-129610.
Full textIntroduction Despite the fact that the average cost of auditing for SMEs only amounts to 10 000 SEK per year, 75 percent of the SMEs refrain from voluntary audit. The purpose of the abolition of mandatory audit in 2010 was to reduce costs for SMEs in order to benefit their operations. Although research has shown that the auditor helps to improve and develop the company, the majority of the SMEs in Sweden refrains from this external resource. At the same time, according to resource dependence theory, the auditor is a valuable resource that is essential for SMEs. Purpose This study seeks to explain the relationship between auditing and the risk of bankruptcy for SMEs. Method This quantitative study is based on a deductive approach, where hypotheses have been formulated on the basis of resource dependence theory. A cross-sectional design is used in order to study the risk of bankruptcy at a given time. The empirical data consists of archival data. Conclusion There is a negative relationship between auditing and the risk of bankruptcy among SMEs in Sweden. The auditor reduces the risk of bankruptcy with 10.42 %. Hence, the auditor should be seen as essential for the survival of SMEs.
Olivier, Anandi. "Die oordrag van ondernemings met verwysing na uitkontraktering / deur A. Olivier." Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2057.
Full textPeixinho, Rúben M. T. "How do analysts deal with bad news? : going-concern opinions and analyst behaviour." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3429.
Full textNordholm, Elin, and Anette Björkstrand. "To issue or not to issue a going concern opinion : A study of factors and incentives influencing auditors’ ability and decision to issue going concern opinions." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-226641.
Full textBlom, Johanna, and Anna Jansson. "Going concern utlåtande i revisionsberättelsen : En studie om svenska konkursdrabbade aktiebolag." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Business Studies, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-3047.
Full textIn the beginning of the 21th century several successful companies filed for bankruptcy. These bankruptcies have been known as large accounting scandals and the largest scandals did Enron and Worldcom stand for. These bankruptcies arose without any warning signal from the auditors about the companies’ financial problems and their inability to continue as a going concern. The bankruptcies damaged the reputation of auditors and broad criticism has developed at the auditors’ inability to discover companies’ financial problems and their unwillingness to reveal a going concern opinion in the audit report. The going concern assumption developed during the 17th century and it has become one of the most fundamental and important accounting principles when making an annual report. The accounting principle implies that the companies will continue as a going concern in the foreseeable future. The investing publics have questioned whether auditors take enough responsibility for evaluating companies going concern uncertainties for a long time. Their defective confidence is reflected in the expectation gap, which means there are a difference between what the investing publics believes auditors are responsible for and what the auditors believe their responsibilities are. Several researchers have showed that even if auditors find out about companies’ financial problems, the auditors might not choose to issue a going concern opinion in the audit report due to predicted costs the opinion might have to both the companies and the auditors. Therefore, the primary purpose of this study is to investigate Swedish companies that have gone bankrupt in the period between 2006-01-01 and 2006-12-31, to see if the auditors have disclose a going concern opinion in the audit report in the companies latest annual report. The study also intend to investigate if there are geographical differences in Sweden, differences between audit firm size, differences between auditor’s competence, and differences between client size according to number of going concern opinions. We have made a quantitative study by collecting data from the companies’ annual reports. 354 companies which filed for bankruptcy during 2006 were selected by a systematic choice. In fact, our study found that only 19.8 % of all companies had received a going concern opinion in their latest annual report before they failed for bankruptcy. We made a chi-square test for all variables. These statistical tests did not show any significant correlation between the numbers of going concern opinions and the independent variables. A normal distribution shows that it is only in the geographical division there are a significant difference from the total average value. The average value for “Norrland” differs significantly from the average value for all the companies that had a going concern opinion in the audit report. But there are percentage differences between all variables that indicates that auditors with a higher competence issue more going concern opinions than auditors with a lower competence, smaller audit firms issue more going concern opinions than “the big four”, and client companies with a low turnover get more going concern opinions than companies with a medium and high turnover.
I början på 2000-talet gick flera framgångsrika företag i konkurs vilket gav upphov till stora redovisningsskandaler. De två största skandalerna stod Enron och Worldcom för. Dessa konkurser uppkom utan att företagens revisorer hade lämnat någon varningssignal om företagens fortlevnadsproblem till intressenterna. Konkurserna skadade revisorernas rykte och det har vuxit fram en stark kritik mot revisorernas oförmåga att upptäcka företags finansiella problem samt deras ovilja att lämna ett going concern utlåtande i revisionsberättelsen. Fortlevnadsprincipen växte fram under 1600-talet och har därefter utvecklats till att bli en av de mest grundläggande och viktiga redovisningsprinciperna vid upprättandet av årsredovisningen. Redovisningsprincipen innebär att företagen ska förutsättas fortsätta sin verksamhet under en överskådlig framtid. Intressenterna har under en lång tid ifrågasatt om revisorerna verkligen tar ett tillräckligt stort ansvar i utvärderingen av företagens fortlevnadsförmåga. Samhällets bristande förtroende återspeglas i det förväntningsgap som finns som innebär att det är en skillnad mellan vad intressenterna tror att revisorerna är ansvariga för och vad revisorerna tror att deras ansvar är. Tidigare studier har visat att även om revisorerna upptäcker att klientföretag har finansiella problem kan de välja att inte utfärda ett going concern utlåtande i revisionsberättelsen på grund av förutspående kostnader som utlåtandet kan ha både för klientföretagen och för revisorerna. Vårt huvudsakliga syfte med studien är därför att undersöka svenska aktiebolag som har gått i konkurs mellan perioden 2006-01-01 och 2006-12-31 för att se om revisorerna har lämnat ett going concern utlåtande i revisionsberättelsen i aktiebolagens senaste årsredovisning. Studien ämnar också undersöka om det finns geografiska skillnader i Sverige, skillnader med anledning av revisionsbyråernas storlek, skillnader mellan godkända och auktoriserade revisorer samt skillnader till följd av klientföretagens storlek och i vilken utsträckning going concern utlåtanden lämnas i revisionsberättelsen. Vi har genomfört en kvantitativ studie genom att ha granskat konkursdrabbade aktiebolags senaste årsredovisningar och revisionsberättelser. Studien grundar sig på en dokumentstudie då 354 konkursdrabbade företag valdes ut genom ett systematiskt urval från Internetsidan konkurs.se. Därefter hämtades de utvalda aktiebolagens årsredovisningar från databasen Affärsdata. Studiens resultat visar att endast 19,8 % av de undersökta aktiebolagen hade fått ett going concern utlåtande i den senaste årsredovisningen innan de gick i konkurs. Vi upprättade chi-två test för samtliga variabler som uppvisade att det inte finns något signifikant samband mellan andelen going concern utlåtanden och de oberoende variablerna. Vi beräknade även en normalfördelning som uppvisade att det endast är i den geografiska indelningen som det finns en signifikant avvikelse från det totala medelvärdet. Det gäller för Norrlands medelvärde som signifikant avviker från medelvärdet för samtliga konkursdrabbade aktiebolag som hade fått ett going concern utlåtande. Det finns dock procentuella skillnader mellan samtliga variabler som uppvisar att auktoriserade revisorer lämnar fler going concern utlåtanden än godkända revisorer, att små revisionsbyråer lämnar fler going concern utlåtanden än ”the big four” samt att aktiebolag med en liten omsättning erhåller fler going concern utlåtanden än aktiebolag med en medelstor och stor omsättning.
Özcelik, Fatih, and Steven Liu. "Revisorers "going concern" bedömningar : - i förhållande till företagens bransch och storlek." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-12934.
Full textThe assessment of the company's continued operation, or "going concern" is one of theauditors' duties. To facilitate this assessment, a relatively new auditing standard has emergedin Sweden, RS 570. This standard serves as a guide for how an auditor should act whensignificant uncertainties’ surrounding the survival is at hand. This standard does not take thedifferent circumstances that characterize each industry or company size into account, butappears in a general plan. Our study aims to describe and analyze the auditors' accuracy inassessing the "going concern" for companies that went bankrupt in Sweden. Furthermore, wewill identify and describe if there is any difference in accuracy and assessment of "goingconcern" in relation to business size and industry affiliation. We also compared these to thedepleted equity and audit report outcomes (clean or qualified) as they have close links to the"going concern". We have made both a quantitative and qualitative study based on materialfrom a research project at Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall. The data that we receivedconsisted of 801 companies that went bankrupt in January and February 2009. Using thismaterial, we have subsequently done surveys and found that the overall accuracy is around 12percent. We found no difference in "going concern" assessments, observation of depletedequity or clean / qualified audit report between industries. We also found no difference interms of "going concern" assessments in relation to their size. On the other hand, we found asignificant difference in the remarks on the depleted equity and audit report outcomes, wheresmall firms are more likely to get a comment on the depleted equity and qualified opinionthan large companies. We conclude that the accuracy is unacceptably low, which makes uscritical whether the auditors should have the task of assessing companies’ continued operationat all. An alternative solution is to change the work process to increase accuracy to anacceptable level. This change may be done through an industry specialization, which shouldincrease the overall audit quality as well as accuracy in “going concern” judgements.
Uang, Jinn-Yang. "The information content of going-concern uncertainty disclosures : a policy perspective." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393698.
Full textNäsman, Lacey. "A Qualitative Look into Going Concern Reports : From the Auditor's Perspective." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160449.
Full textKoh, Hian Chye. "Prediction of going-concern status: a probit model for the auditors." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/80286.
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Olsson, Thomas, and Lars Wahlquist. "Revisorers oberoende mot bakgrund av klientstorlek och arvode: En studie av orena revisionsberättelser och going concern-varningar i svenska konkursbolag." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-13357.
Full textAlready in the Kreuger crash in the early 1930s the society began to question and make demands on auditor’s independence. The question of an auditor’s independence is still today a topical issue. The effect of an auditor who is not independent is that the company´s annual report provides the stakeholders with false information. Underlying factors that may affect the auditor`s independence can be the company’s auditing fees as well as the size of the company. We have in this study categorized and analyzed differences between Swedish auditor`s statements in audit reports and auditors fees as well as the size of the client company. We chose to study the auditors statement in the company’s annual audit report and if any warning about the survival of the company were issued. We chose to limit our study to only Swedish companies that has gone bankrupt during the period 2010-01-01 to 2010-08-31. Previous research state that there is a correlation between high fees to the auditor`s firm and the auditor`s loss of independence, while there is studies that state the opposite. There are also studies that confirm that the company’s size affect the auditor`s independence. We have in our study confirmed that there is a correlation between size of the total fee to the auditing firm and the share of clean audit reports. We have also found a correlation that indicates that the auditor is more critical in the audit and that the share of going concern-warnings increases when the fees to the auditor increases. The size of the client company has, according to our study, influence on the share of clean audit reports (the share of clean audit reports increases when the companies are larger) while the size of the client company has no effect on the share of going concern-warnings.
Kreymborg, Dorothea. "Going private with public concern : a comparative study of going private techniques under Canadian and German law." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=80934.
Full textKmoch, Štěpán. "Uživatelská rizika auditovaných účetních závěrek." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2006. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-72750.
Full textZbožínek, Pavel. "Ocenění podniku Pivovary Staropramen, a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-75423.
Full textSterner, Therese. "Urval, bedömning och beslutsfattande av Going Concern : - En studie ur ett revisorsperspektiv." Thesis, Mid Sweden University, Department of Social Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-9336.
Full textTitel: Urval, Bedömning och Beslutsfattande av going concern- En studie ur ett revisorsperspektiv
Nyckelord: Going concern, bedömning, revisionsbevis, hård- och mjuk information
Bakgrund och problemdiskussion: I yrkesverksamma revisorers arbetsuppgifter ingår det att uttala sig om företagets förmåga att leva vidare under nästkommande år. Den information som företaget presenterar kan bestå av räkenskapsrelaterad information samt verksamhets- och förvaltningsrelaterad information. Den information som företaget lämnat till revisorn delas in i tre revisionsområden och kan klassificeras som två skilda informationstyper, hård och mjuk information. Den hårda informationen innefattar räkenskapsrelaterad information som ofta är historisk medan information rörande företagets förvaltning och verksamhet består av mjuk information, som ofta kopplas samman med företagets framtid. För att göra en korrekt bedömning ligger det i revisorns uppgift att välja ut korrekt och användbar information som skall ligga till grund för uttalandet i revisionsberättelsen rörande going concern. Bedömningen av företagets förmåga att fortleva skall ske i enlighet med revisorns urval av information och hur den kan påverka beslutsfattandet av going concern.
Ovanstående bakgrund och diskussion har lett fram till följande frågeställning:
- Vilken typ av information uppfattar revisorn som särskilt viktig att beakta i bedömningen av going concern?
Syfte: Syftet med studien var att ur ett revisorsperspektiv skapa en förståelse för vilken information som revisorn uppfattar som särskilt viktig, och kan påverka beslutsfattandet av going concern.
Metod: En mix av kvalitativ och kvantitativ forskningsmetod sam angripits genom abduktion. Studien startade i empirin med en förstudie för att sedan fortsätta till teorin. Slutligen avslutades studien i empirin som belystes i ljuset av teorin. Med hjälp av ”The repetory grid technique” kartlades revisorernas tankemönster avseende vilken information som var av stor betydelse för bedömningen och beslutsfattande av going concern. Arbetet med griden kompletterades med intervjufrågor för att skapa en bättre förståelse för studiens syfte.
Resultat och slutsats: Bedömningen av going concern sker genom urvalet av hård och mjuk information. Tillsammans bildar de två informationstyperna en helhetsbild av företaget, vilket medverkar till bedömningen av företagets förmåga att leva vidare och utgörs av en helhetsbedömning. Revisorerna menar att den hårda informationen inte får något värde om de inte tar ställning till de mjuka delarna i företaget. Med revisionsbevis som kassaflöde, likviditet och nyckeltal ställs de samman med delar som företagets internkontroll, strategier för att generera ett framtida kassaflöde och företagets marknad.
Lindberg, Kristin, and Marie Skoglund. "Revisorers träffsäkerhet vid Going concern-utlåtandet med och utan vetskap om en lågkonjunktur." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-13359.
Full textSUMMARY During a recession and in a world with a number of major corporate scandals in fresh memory, the interest in how auditors have mastered their role as assessor of corporate survival is raised. Previous studies on auditors' accuracy in assessing the going concern shows that the accuracy of it in Sweden is low compared to studies made in other countries. Our result gives further evidence of a low success rate in Sweden. To answer our purpose, our study has been preceded by both a quantitative and a qualitative approach as we have implemented a data collection as well as an informant. The material we have used to obtain our results is 2075 and 1528 investigation units, where all units are Limited Companies that have gone bankrupt during the period January 1:st to June 30:th 2010. A part of our study was to investigate if there were any differences in the accuracy in the assessment of going concern when the auditors were aware of a pending recession. Comparing our results in this study with a similar study conducted in 2009, when the recession was in its infancy, we find a difference between the studies. Accuracy is higher in our study, 18.3%, than in the earlier study, 12.2%. A further aspect of our study was to identify possible explanations to why there is such a low accuracy in the assessment of going concern. The study indicates that competence, independence, fear of damages and accounts structure could affect auditors' accuracy in assessing going concern in a greater or lesser extent. Furthermore, the accounts structure is seen as a reason for the low accuracy of auditors' assessment of going concern
Agné, Alvin, and Maiju Ruokanen. "Revisionsbyråers kvalité: en studie om Going Concern-varningar och anmärkningar på finansiell stress." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-14132.
Full textThe international accuracy of Going Concern-warnings (GC-warnings) is as low as 40 percent, although studies show the accuracy is even lower in Sweden, under 20 percent. The four biggest accounting firms in the world advertise their knowledge of industry and a number of studies say that they have higher audit quality than the smaller firms. Meanwhile there are studies that claim that there are no differences in quality between them and the smaller firms. In this study we aim to test if the large firms have higher auditing quality than the medium and small firms and to test if there is any difference within the three categories. We measure quality as GC-warnings and a remark on financial stress (a remark on the equity being lower than 50 percent of the share capital). The study is quantitative and our data consists of 4718 limited companies, and 1809 financially stressed limited companies, which went bankrupt 2010. We measured the GC-warning accuracy to 17 percent and the remark on financial stress to 82 percent by using a Chi square test. We used the same test but added P-value to check the strength on the rest of the results. There is a very strong connection between the share of GC-warnings and the size of the accounting firm. There is also a very strong connection between the share of GC-warnings and the different firms within the large category. However there was only a weak connection between the different firms within the medium size and no connection at all within the small category. There is no connection at all between remarks on financial stress and either the firm size or within the firm size categories. According to our results, large audit firms have higher audit quality than medium and small firms concerning GC-warnings, but there are no differences between and within the categories concerning remarks on financial stress. We also find that quality concerning GC-warnings is not homogeneous between the different audit firms within each category. Our conclusions are that the accuracy on GC-warnings is low but it could increase if the auditors complement imponderable information with verifiable information and if methods for GC-judgments were established. The audit quality within large firms is not homogeneous which may be due to that the different audit firms within the categories use different ways to work, which causes differences in audit quality.
Elledil, Hanna, and Sara Abbas. "Den orena revisionsberättelsens påverkan på det reviderade företaget." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-10755.
Full textSince stakeholders proved to use the auditor’s report for decision-making, reactions to the qualified audit opinion implya negative result for the firm. Thus, we investigated how the audited firm’s organizational outcomes are influenced by the qualified audit opinion. Furthermore, the study aims to explain how the measure taken limits the effect of the qualified audit opinion.Based on previous research and theory, we created our own hypothesis. The hypothesis saysthat the qualified audit opinionaffectsorganizational outcomes and that these effects can be limited by the measures taken. To realize the purpose, we conducted a document study. We investigated 4220 firms in Skåne to find firms with qualified audit opinions. Furthermore, the first survey contributed 333 firms that brought in our survey. The results reflect the entire population of firms in Sweden. The results were statistically processed in order to test the developed hypothesis. The study has demonstrated that the firm’s survival, solvency,turnover and number ofemployees are affected by a qualified audit opinion. Furthermore, the results show that a qualified audit opinionleads more qualified audit opinions than unqualified audit opinions the following years. The study shows a very weak indication that measure taken limits the effect of the qualified audit opinion.
Scheffczyk, Eva. "Untersuchung der rechtlichen Überschuldung bei der Jahresabschlussprüfung im Rahmen der Going-Concern-Annahme /." Lohmar-Köln [u.a.] : Eul, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015520540&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textWahlström, Jim, and Charlene Akl. "Gridens svar på överlevnad : -en studie om revisorers beaktning av fortsatt drift." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro universitet, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-15851.
Full textEn revisors uppgift är att granska företagets siffror och, som oberoende part, ge en tillförlitlig bild av företagets ekonomiska ställning. Revisorn måste vid granskningen förhålla sig till standarden ISA. I ISA finns standarden ISA 570 som behandlar fortsatt drift (going concern). Standarden tar upp ett par faktorer som kan vara indikationer på att ett företag kan få problem med sin fortsatta drift. Problematiken är att ISA inte värderar vilka faktorer som är mer betydelsefulla än andra vid bedömningen, utan det är upp till revisorn att ta ställning. Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva vilka faktorer som revisorn anser är mer betydelsefulla än andra vid en bedömning av going concern samt förklara orsaken till varför det är så. För att ta reda på syftet användes både en kvantitativ och kvalitativ metod. Den kvantitativa metoden utgick från en gridmodell som kallas The Reperatory Grid och den kvalitativa metoden bestod av intervjufrågor. För att få fram data intervjuades tre auktoriserade revisorer. I vårt resultat och slutsats kom vi fram till att det är svårt att avgöra om någon händelse är mer betydelsefull än någon annan. Förklaringen till detta är att de faktorer som revisorn beaktar oftast är situationsspecifik och därför behöver revisorn använda sig utav sin tidigare kunskap om företaget, men även skapa sig en helhetsbild över den specifika situationen med hjälp av olika mått.
Sjöberg, Daniel. "Key transfer pricing issues arising from the transfer of an ongoing concern : A comparison between the OECD TP Guidelines and the German and the U.S. legislations." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Rättsvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-21571.
Full textMarais, Abrianne. "Income Tax – Sale of a going concern: Assumed Contingent Liabilities Clarification versus legislative reforms." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30962.
Full textJacobs, Angela. "The tax deductibility of contingent liabilities transferred in the sale of a going concern." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4638.
Full textThe debate around the deductibility of transferred contingent liabilities, when a business is sold as a going concern has been raging for many years with no definitive guidance provided in legislation and limited court decisions on the issue, with the exception of the recent Ackermans Ltd v CSARS ("Acermans case") judgment and BCR 029 issued by SARS.
Agné, Alvin, and Maiju Ruokanen. "Revisorers benägenhet att lämna orena revisionsberättelser och Going Concern-varningar: kopplingar till demografiska faktorer." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-13310.
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