Q14. Considering your company's specific audit needs, if you had to choose a new primary auditor of record today, are you likely to use an accounting firm from the following categories?: |
a. Big 4 firms (PWC, KPMG, E&Y, Deloitte) |
| Size of Company |
Question Choices |
Estimated Percentage |
95 Percent Confidence Interval |
|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents | Will consider | 56.5 | 52.4-60.6 |
| Large | Will consider | 99.3 | 94.5-100.0 |
| Midsize | Will consider | 75.8 | 70.1-81.6 |
| Small | Will consider | 17.6 | 11.3-25.4 |
| All respondents | Will not consider | 39.1 | 34.9-43.3 |
| Large | Will not consider | 0.4 | 0.0-5.6 |
| Midsize | Will not consider | 20.8 | 15.2-27.5 |
| Small | Will not consider | 75.2 | 66.7-82.5 |
| All respondents | No answer | 0.6 | 0.1-2.1 |
| Large | No answer | 0.2 | 0.0-5.6 |
| Midsize | No answer | 0.0 | 0.0-1.6 |
| Small | No answer | 1.6 | 0.2-5.7 |
| All respondents | Item Nonresponse | 3.8 | 2.1-6.2 |
| Large | Item Nonresponse | 0.0 | 0.0-3.0 |
| Midsize | Item Nonresponse | 3.3 | 1.2-7.1 |
| Small | Item Nonresponse | 5.6 | 2.3-11.2 |