Q15. For those categories of accounting firms that you would not consider, how important are the following auditor characteristics in explaining why?: |
g. Ability to handle size and complexity of company operations |
| Size of Company |
Question Choices |
Estimated Percentage |
95 Percent Confidence Interval |
|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents | Very great or great importance | 69.4 | 64.6-74.3 |
| Large | Very great or great importance | 92.4 | 84.2-97.2 |
| Midsize | Very great or great importance | 78.8 | 71.5-84.9 |
| Small | Very great or great importance | 42.8 | 32.7-53.0 |
| All respondents | Moderate to little importance | 15.9 | 12.1-20.3 |
| Large | Moderate to little importance | 1.6 | 0.1-8.2 |
| Midsize | Moderate to little importance | 6.4 | 3.1-11.5 |
| Small | Moderate to little importance | 38.1 | 28.1-48.1 |
| All respondents | Don't know | 1.0 | 0.2-2.8 |
| Large | Don't know | 1.6 | 0.1-8.2 |
| Midsize | Don't know | 0.6 | 0.0-3.5 |
| Small | Don't know | 1.2 | 0.0-6.5 |
| All respondents | Item Nonresponse | 13.7 | 10.2-18.0 |
| Large | Item Nonresponse | 4.3 | 1.2-10.9 |
| Midsize | Item Nonresponse | 14.2 | 9.1-20.7 |
| Small | Item Nonresponse | 17.9 | 10.4-27.7 |