Q15. For those categories of accounting firms that you would not consider, how important are the following auditor characteristics in explaining why?: |
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 | 61.0 | 55.8-66.2 |
| Large | Very great or great importance | 80.2 | 69.4-88.5 |
| Midsize | Very great or great importance | 68.5 | 61.6-75.5 |
| Small | Very great or great importance | 39.3 | 29.3-49.3 |
| All respondents | Moderate to little importance | 24.0 | 19.3-28.6 |
| Large | Moderate to little importance | 13.9 | 6.9-24.0 |
| Midsize | Moderate to little importance | 16.0 | 10.6-22.7 |
| Small | Moderate to little importance | 41.7 | 31.6-51.8 |
| All respondents | Don't know | 1.3 | 0.4-3.1 |
| Large | Don't know | 3.2 | 0.5-10.7 |
| Midsize | Don't know | 0.6 | 0.0-3.5 |
| Small | Don't know | 1.2 | 0.0-6.5 |
| All respondents | Item Nonresponse | 13.8 | 10.2-18.0 |
| Large | Item Nonresponse | 2.7 | 0.5-8.2 |
| Midsize | Item Nonresponse | 14.8 | 9.7-21.4 |
| Small | Item Nonresponse | 17.9 | 10.4-27.7 |