Q2. Over the next five years, does your firm plan to increase or decrease the number of public companies for which you serve as the auditor of record?

Greatly increase
(percent)

Somewhat increase
(percent)

Little or no change
(percent)
Somewhat decrease
(percent)

Greatly decrease
(percent)

Stop auditing public
companies altogether
(percent)
Don't know (percent)

Number of respondents
22.9 56.8 10.2 1.7 5.1 0.8 2.5 118