The relationship among auditor tenure, audit firm size, auditor change and going concern audit reports on listed companies in the Stock Exchange of Thailand
Abstract:
To investigate the relationship among auditor tenure, audit firm size, auditor change and going concern audit reports. The sample was listed companies in the Stock Exchange of Thailand for the periods of 2001 - 2005. The study adopted a pair-matched sample technique using total assets and industry sector as criteria to match between going concern opinions and other types of audit reports. Interesting variables included auditor tenure, audit firm size and auditor change. Not only descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, maximum, minimum, mean and standard deviation) but also inferential statistics (logistic regression) were employed to analyze the data. As expected, at 95 % confidence interval, it was found that big firms were likely to issue going concern audit reports. In addition, (1) prior auditors opinion (2) default (3) earnings before interest and tax to net sales and (4) total liabilities to total assets were statistically significant to predict going concern audit reports. However, the study did not find the relationship of auditor tenure, auditor change and going concern audit reports.