Q13. If you had to choose a new auditor of record, how important would each of the following auditor characteristics be to your decision?: |
c. Technical capability with accounting principles and auditing standards |
| Size of Company |
Question Choices |
Estimated Percentage |
95 Percent Confidence Interval |
|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents | Very great or great importance | 94.9 | 92.2-96.9 |
| Large | Very great or great importance | 96.8 | 89.3-99.5 |
| Midsize | Very great or great importance | 96.7 | 93.0-98.8 |
| Small | Very great or great importance | 92.0 | 85.8-96.1 |
| All respondents | Moderate to little importance | 4.3 | 2.5-6.8 |
| Large | Moderate to little importance | 3.2 | 0.5-10.7 |
| Midsize | Moderate to little importance | 2.2 | 0.6-5.5 |
| Small | Moderate to little importance | 7.2 | 3.3-13.2 |
| All respondents | Don't know | 0.0 | 0.0-0.7 |
| Large | Don't know | 0.0 | 0.0-3.0 |
| Midsize | Don't know | 0.0 | 0.0-1.6 |
| Small | Don't know | 0.0 | 0.0-2.4 |
| All respondents | Item Nonresponse | 0.8 | 0.2-2.4 |
| Large | Item Nonresponse | 0.0 | 0.0-3.0 |
| Midsize | Item Nonresponse | 1.1 | 0.1-3.9 |
| Small | Item Nonresponse | 0.8 | 0.0-4.4 |