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?: |
b. 2nd tier firms (Grant Thornton, BDO Seidman, McGladrey & Pullen, Crowe Chizek) |
| Size of Company |
Question Choices |
Estimated Percentage |
95 Percent Confidence Interval |
|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents | Will consider | 46.5 | 41.8-51.3 |
| Large | Will consider | 8.2 | 3.4-16.3 |
| Midsize | Will consider | 50.9 | 44.0-57.8 |
| Small | Will consider | 54.4 | 46.0-62.7 |
| All respondents | Will not consider | 48.9 | 44.2-53.7 |
| Large | Will not consider | 85.8 | 76.4-92.5 |
| Midsize | Will not consider | 45.8 | 39.0-52.7 |
| Small | Will not consider | 40.0 | 31.7-48.3 |
| 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 | 3.9 | 2.2-6.3 |
| Large | Item Nonresponse | 5.7 | 1.8-13.4 |
| Midsize | Item Nonresponse | 3.3 | 1.2-7.0 |
| Small | Item Nonresponse | 4.0 | 1.3-9.1 |