Q15. For those categories of accounting firms that you would not consider, how important are the following auditor characteristics in explaining why?:
b. Geographic presence

Size of
Company
Question
Choices
Estimated
Percentage
95 Percent
Confidence Interval
All respondents Very great or great importance 39.0 33.8-44.2
Large Very great or great importance 66.4 55.8-77.1
Midsize Very great or great importance 35.9 28.6-43.1
Small Very great or great importance 29.7 20.4-39.1
All respondents Moderate to little importance 45.2 39.8-50.5
Large Moderate to little importance 29.0 19.1-40.6
Midsize Moderate to little importance 47.4 39.9-54.9
Small Moderate to little importance 50.0 39.8-60.3
All respondents Don't know 1.3 0.4-3.2
Large Don't know 1.6 0.1-8.2
Midsize Don't know 1.3 0.2-4.5
Small Don't know 1.2 0.0-6.5
All respondents Item Nonresponse 14.5 10.9-18.9
Large Item Nonresponse 2.9 0.6-8.5
Midsize Item Nonresponse 15.5 10.2-22.1
Small Item Nonresponse 19.0 11.3-29.1