Q15. For those categories of accounting firms that you would not consider, how important are the following auditor characteristics in explaining why?: |
f. Proximity to the company'sheadquarters |
| Size of Company |
Question Choices |
Estimated Percentage |
95 Percent Confidence Interval |
|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents | Very great or great importance | 19.3 | 15.0-23.6 |
| Large | Very great or great importance | 11.7 | 5.6-20.8 |
| Midsize | Very great or great importance | 20.5 | 14.5-27.7 |
| Small | Very great or great importance | 21.4 | 13.2-31.7 |
| All respondents | Moderate to little importance | 65.0 | 59.9-70.2 |
| Large | Moderate to little importance | 78.7 | 68.0-87.1 |
| Midsize | Moderate to little importance | 64.0 | 56.8-71.2 |
| Small | Moderate to little importance | 59.6 | 49.5-69.6 |
| All respondents | Don't know | 1.6 | 0.5-3.5 |
| Large | Don't know | 5.1 | 1.3-13.1 |
| Midsize | Don't know | 0.6 | 0.0-3.5 |
| Small | Don't know | 1.2 | 0.0-6.5 |
| All respondents | Item Nonresponse | 14.1 | 10.5-18.4 |
| Large | Item Nonresponse | 4.5 | 1.3-11.0 |
| Midsize | Item Nonresponse | 14.8 | 9.7-21.4 |
| Small | Item Nonresponse | 17.9 | 10.4-27.7 |