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Antonsson, Malin, and Malin Borup. "Ren eller oren revisionsberättelse : En undersökning om revisorns träffsäkerhet i konkursdrabbade gasellföretag 2006-2011." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-17873.
Full textAdemi, Pajtesa, and Simon Wester. "Kostnader som uppstår för revisorer och företag vid utfärdande av en första going concern-varning : en analys av den svenska marknaden." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-9543.
Full textThe auditors maintain an essential roll as an independent authority for control of financial information governed by rules and regulations. In the modern society it’s crucial for the companies to present correct information within annual reports for the stakeholders. It’s a complex task for the auditors to make an adequate judgment of the companies ongoing business if an audit modified opinion should be issued which may not lead to any misjudgements. As the results of such a misjudgement will have huge consequences for both client and auditor. Issuing a going concern modified audit opinion may result in large loss of revenues for the auditors as well as negative information to the stakeholders of the company which may lead to serious consequences for the business of the company. As example on measures taken by the company is to replace their auditors or that the company files for bankruptcy, which means that the self-fulfilling prophecy is accomplished. The purpose of this paper is to show if it exists a correlation between the losses of auditors revenues when issuing a first going concern modified audit opinion by Swedish auditors. In addition this paper will prove if it exists a correlation between issuing a going concern modified audit opinion and the probability of bankruptcy for the revised company. This paper applies a quantitative method to explain the correlations. This analysis is made by the selection of a test group of 169 companies which have received a first going concern modified audit opinion during the financial year of 2009. The test group has been compared by a control group of 169 companies which are financial distressed but have not received a going concern modified audit opinion. To prove whether if it exist any correlations statistical calculations is applied. The results of this paper determine the existence of a correlation between issuing a first going concern modified audit opinion and audit switch. The longer the audit tenure has lasted the lesser is the probability that a going concern modified audit opinion to be issued. However this paper finds no evidence of any correlation between issuing of a going concern modified audit opinion and company bankruptcy which reject the existence of self-fulfilling prophecy.
Gogani, Roya, and Jonathan Nyrén. "Revisorernas kostnad av att utge en going concern- varning." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-15697.
Full textThe information that the auditor provides in their audit report should be valid in the eyes of the stakeholders of the company. The auditor should be the independent link between the company and its stakeholders. When reading the audit report, one expects to find all the possible economic problems identified in it, however this is not always the case. It is crucial that the audit of a company’s going concern is reliable. Decisions regarding going concern-modified opinions should be independent and be based on valid information regarding the company’s economic situation. One faulty going concern-modified opinion can set off a whole range of issues and revenue loss for both the company and the audit firm. Consequently stakeholders can lose their trust in the company resulting in a change of audit firm. This thesis is focused on whether or not auditors might be reluctant to hand out going concern-modified opinions in fear of losing a client and the revenue associated with it. Therefore, the thesis investigates whether or not there is a relationship between lost revenue and the first instance of issuing a going concern-modified opinion for Swedish companies. This thesis is also investigating whether the issuance of a going concern-modified opinion will increase the possibility of the company going bankrupt, the so-called self-fulfilling prophecy. A contribution to the previous research regarding the going concern issue is the consideration of audit tenure. We have used 432 companies with fiscal year 2009 extracted from the database Affärsdata. Out of this selection, 216 had been issued a going concern-modified opinion. This test group is then compared to the control group with the same number of companies that were identified as financially distressed but without receiving a going concern- modified opinion. The thesis has used the statistical program SPSS to complete the calculations needed to complete the analysis. The result shows a positive relationship between the first going concern-modified opinion and the change of audit firms. The period of time the auditing requires also effects the predisposition to issue a going concern-modified opinion. However the study was unable to find any statistical evidence for the so-called self-fulfilling prophecy.
Eliasson, Emelie, and Bianca Saarisilta. "Etisk affärskultur i små och stora revisionsfirmor : En studie om skillnader i den etiska affärskulturen och dess påverkan på revisorers objektivitet." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för ekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-18900.
Full textAim: Previous studies have shown that the objectivity of the auditors tend to be weaker in small audit firms than in larger audit firms. Research indicates that the ethical culture of an organization has a large impact on individuals' ethical conduct. Studies also show that organizational culture may differ to some extent between large and small organizations. Based on the previous research we have chosen to examine if the ethical business culture differ in large and small audit firms and if a stronger ethical business culture is related to a higher objectivity of the auditors. Method: We have chosen to use a quantitative questionnaire survey method in the study. We wanted to investigate if there is a correlation between the size of audit firms and their ethical business culture and the degree of objectivity of the auditors. The study was conducted using Ardichvili, Jondle and Mitchell’s (2013) questionnaire to measure the ethical business culture and an established test earlier used by Bamber and Iyer (2007) to measure the objectivity of the auditors’. The questionnaire was sent to approved and certified public auditors in Sweden. The collected data were analyzed and reported using statistical methods. Result: The study shows a slightly stronger ethical business culture in the non Big 4-firms than the Big 4-firms in Sweden. The result can not be generalized to the larger population due to a low response rate. No significant associations were found between the degree of ethical business culture and auditor objectivity. Suggestions for future research: A qualitative study using interviews or observations could provide a more nuanced picture of the differences in business culture of auditing firms. Contribution of the thesis: Studies of ethical business culture in large and small audit firms and it’s impact on auditors’ objectivity has to our knowledge not been researched before. A validation of the ethical business culture in small and large audit firms can give attention to weaknesses in culture and thus indicators of what can be improved from an ethical perspective.
Hasselblom, Miranda, and Erik Ernstsson. "Hur skiljer sig kvalitetskontroller vid revision mellan Big 4 och små revisionsbyråer?" Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-42512.
Full textAndersson, Caroline, and Dunia Gorgis. "Förekomsten av orena revisionsberättelser i svenska konkursbolag: Olika typer av anmärkningar och deras samband med revisionsbyråers storlek." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-13335.
Full textDahlström, Viktor, and Robin Danielsson. "Levererar Big-4 en högre revisionskvalitet jämfört med Non-Big 4? : En kvantitativ studie som jämför större och mindre revisionsbolags revisionskvalitet relaterat till revisionsarvodet." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Företagsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23802.
Full textAim: Big audit firms have long been associated with higher audit quality, compared to smaller audit firms. Recent studies suggest that the higher audit fees from bigger audit firm is affected by market misuse rather than better audit quality. This study provides new empirical evidence between the comparison of big vs small audit firm, where audit fees are used as proxy for audit quality. Furthermore, this study investigates different litigation environment that could affect audit quality. Method: This study uses an quantitative based method with an positivist, deductive approach, were earlier studies have had an impact on our hypotheses. Financial information from 2518 companies has been collected from Thomson Reuters Datastream. Result & Conclusions: This study's result provides significant differences of audit quality between big and small audit firms in different risk environments. For this study, the audit quality relationship between big and small audit firms are equivalent for the European countries while audit quality between big and small audit firms in the US differ significantly. Contribution of the thesis: This study leaves two contributions to the extent audit literature, in terms of empirical evidence of audit quality between big and small audit firms and unique research results of audit quality in different litigation environments. Furthermore, the results of this study creates incentives for practitioners to review the audit market for self interests and answer legal setters concerns about unbalanced audit markets. Suggestions for future research: The study has been carried out without consideration of qualitative factors that may affect audit quality. It’s opening a space for comparative studies with an qualitative approach. It is also possible to expand the number of stock exchanges for a country or expand the number of countries in different risk environments.
Eriksson, Tobias, and Ahmad Kullab. "Revisorns och klientens påverkan på revisionskvalitet." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-30030.
Full textGallo, Jonsson Caroline, and Sofie Gydell. "Revision och Kreditbetyg : Vilken betydelse har revision för kreditbetyget?" Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-26080.
Full textKjellqvist, Lissie, and Carlqvist Teresia Söderberg. "Revisionskvalitet : Kartläggning och analys av huruvida en revisionsbyrås storlek påverkar revisionskvalitet." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-131032.
Full textToday auditor´s task is to review and express their opinion on a company's finances, their accounts and, in Sweden, the company's management. Audit is partly about understanding the audited company and its operations. There are high demands on the auditor's competence and independence, partly because stakeholders should be able to make important decisions for a proper and thorough audit. The research involves studying whether there are different factors that have an impact on the quality differences between small and large accounting firms. We found the subject interesting and wanted to identify and analyze whether the auditing firm's size affected its audit quality. In this study we tried to answer our purpose from two different studies. The first sub-study consists of a thorough literature review where we present, for this essay, relevant research. After a thorough literature review, we found five factors that we chose to build our essay on. These factors included the identification of gaps, the shortcomings Report, Client Portfolio, Reputation and Office Size. The conclusion of this study shows that these factors have a significant impact on audit quality, and that the larger firms, from these factors, have it easier to achieve higher quality audits. Some examples are that more expertise in the office should increase the chance of detecting deficiencies in the audit, and that the great reputation of the agencies can be beneficial to the Agency's client selection. Then follows substudy 2, which is a deepening of the essay’s substudy 1. In this part we carried out an interview study, in which 13 auditors were interviewed from both small and large accounting firms. We did this in order to get a clearer picture of how audit quality is perceived by today's accountants, and whether they see any difference between the firm sizes. We also added comfort issues during these interviews because we considered it to be of great interest to supply the individual auditor and their perceived comfort, and whether this could have an impact on audit quality. The results of the interviews showed that no specific pattern on audit quality would be higher in any of the respective firm sizes. Interestingly, we instead found the individual auditor and his comfort as the most significant factor for audit quality. Our knowledge contribution is thus, based on this study, that audit quality is not higher in any particular firm when it comes to agency size. Our analysis illustrates, however, that the individual auditor's engagement and comfort are the deciding factors to whether differences in audit quality arises between agencies.
Haile, Simon, and Sean O'Regan. "Revisorns yrkesroll och oberoende : En utredning om hur revisorer förebygger risken för beroende gentemot klient." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-197213.
Full textLyckevång, Ulrika, and Emma Maltesson. "”Att vara revisor på en liten byrå” : varför välja mindre byråer och inte Big 4?" Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-21169.
Full textSamardzhiev, Viktor, and Filip Svensson. "Hållbarhetsrapportering med fokus på SDG-målen : jämförande analys mellan The Big 4 i Sverige och Storbritannien." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-21133.
Full textThe purpose of the study was to analyze and compare the development and harmonization of the sustainability reporting of The Big 4 in Sweden and the UK over four consecutive years (2016–2019). This study was done because of sustainability reporting is becoming increasingly important and auditing companies have the knowledge required on the subject. Therefore, it becomes relevant to analyze The Big 4s sustainability reports. The EU has created a new EU-directive in 2014 to promote sustainability reporting and its harmonization at a regional level. The EU-directive has affected Sweden's and the UK's national accounting laws. Using content analysis of annual reports, separate sustainability reports and information published on The Big 4s websites, the empirical data for the study has been developed. To be able to interpret the empirical data collected, institutional theory, stakeholder theory, legitimacy theory and conceptualization of non-financial reporting harmonization have been used. With this we have come to three different results. The first result is that The Big 4 uses different presentation form in each country. The second result is that the contents of The Big 4:s sustainability reports differ between the two countries. The third and final result is that all companies belonging to The Big 4 in Sweden and the UK are part of the FNGC collaboration.
Falk, Mikael, and Karlsson Matias Fernandez. "Driftövervakning av Windows och Linux/Unix Servrar." Thesis, KTH, Kommunikationssystem, CoS, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-91853.
Full textThe more servers you install in your network, which utilize different types of configurations and operative systems, the harder it gets to monitor the entire network. But if you use a monitoring system to monitor the network it will get much simpler. The monitoring system gathers information from all of your hosts and servers on your network and warns you if something is wrong or not working properly. In this document we will describe many of the monitoring systems that are out on the market today, spring 2008. Among these monitoring systems are: SCOM, BigBrother, Nagios, and Mon. We have not focused on a single operating system, but rather we have gathered information about monitoring systems that can be installed on Windows and/or Linux/Unix environments. From the information, which we have gathered about each monitoring system, and the criteria that Valderas Consulting AB gave us, we have focused on three monitoring systems that seem to be the best. We have installed these systems, one at a time, on a server that’s part of a small network, and run several tests, such as failure to the network and an operating system crash, to see how each system handles these failures in a real life environment. We thought that SCOM 2007, Big Brother 4, and Nagios were the best amongst the systems we looked at. After testing each one of them, we think that Nagios is the best. It is userfriendly regarding installation, configuration, and monitoring. One big advantage with Nagios is that it is free of charge, open source. If you have a computer-environment that contain computers with Windows, and you only have one domain, then SCOM 2007 is the system for you to choose, because Nagios only works if it is installed on a computer with Linux/Unix. Big Brother 4 was also ok, but it had some issues. It is not free of charge, and it did not have as many tests, to run on the network-units, as Nagios. We also had some problem, with Big Brother 4, regarding monitoring computers with Linux/Unix.
Pers, Sarah, and Camilla Larsson. "Två regelverk, ett val : En studie om revisionsbyråns/redovisningsbyråns påverkan på valet mellan K2 och K3." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-95909.
Full textTellström, Maria, and Karin Nyberg. "Revisorers oberoende : Påverkas detta av variabler som revisionsbyråns storlek, konsulttjänster och klientstorlek?" Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för ekonomi och företagande, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-9074.
Full textBackground: During the early 2000s the financial audit went through a series of changes. The cause of these changes were several, one of these reasons were the Enron scandal which arouse the question about the importance of auditor independence once again. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to examine whether variables as Big 4, advisory services or client size has any influence on auditor independence. Method: From a deductive point of view a quantitative method has been used as we analyzed data collected from the database Affärsdata. The data were collected from annual reports and audit reports which were analyzed based on the following criteria: Swedish limited companies with a started bankruptcy process during April, May or December in the year 2010. The data of the study have been compared with previous research in the audit field which deals with the theories agency theory and audit as an affirmation. Results and conclusion: The results of the study shows that Big 4 firms tend to issue going concern opinions in a slightly higher extent than other audit firms. There is a significant association between Big 4 and advisory services. Companies who use audit services provided by a Big 4 firm also use their advisory services to a higher extent than those who use audit services from other audit firms. Client size does only show an association, even though it is not statistically significant, between those companies who use both audit and advisory services, in other words, the tendency of using both audit and advisory services increase with company size. None of the investigated variables had any significant affect on the tendency to issue a going concern opinion, neither individually nor together. The most reasonable explanation to these results comes down to the fact that the Swedish auditors are independent due to the variables we studied. Based on this we conclude that the choice of audit firm, weather companies use advisory services or not, or who you are, does not affect the auditor’s independence which indicates that auditors cope with the independence issues quite well.
Cronholm, Jacob, and Elin Didriksson. "Partners påverkan på revisionskvalité: En andelsfråga? : En studie om hur partnerandelen i de fyra största revisionsbyråerna i Sverige influerar organisationen och på så vis påverkar revisionskvalitén." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96838.
Full textBackground: The development of the auditor profession originates from 1895. However, the development that is based on professionalism has in recent years become increasingly commercialized. The audit firm’s owners are called partners and like other types of organizations, the owners have a big impact on the organization. However, partners differ from other owners with their presence in the daily business. The position as a partner comes with power, status and financial advantages, which may lead to a dominance of either professional or commercial logic. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to explore whether the partner share affects the quality of auditing within the four biggest audit firms in Sweden. Method: To fulfill the purpose of the study, a hypothesis has been formulated with agency theory and commercial and professional logics. This study uses a crosssectional design with a deductive approach. The selection of data includes the four biggest audit firms in Sweden and their clients on the three biggest lists in the Swedish stock market during 2012 and 2018. Conclusions: The study can conclude from analysis and discussion that the partner share has an impact on audit quality. The study shows that authorized auditors per partner have a positive relationship to audit quality
Karlsson, Ebba, and Nellie Sjögren. "Sambandet mellan revision och kostnaden för lånat kapital i svenska aktiebolag som inte är revisionspliktiga : En kvantitativ studie om revisorns betydelse i svenska mindre aktiebolag." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-40372.
Full textDet vanligaste sättet för mindre företag i Sverige att finansiera sig på är genom lån från olika kreditinstitut. De senaste årtionden har olika finansiella kriser påverkat regleringen kring kreditgivning och främst har den åtstramade kredithanteringen drabbat mindre företag eftersom dessa anses utgöra en större risk för kreditgivarna. Sedan revisionsplikten avskaffades i Sverige år 2010, är det endast 30 procent av de svenska aktiebolagen som enligt lag måste ha en revisor. Dessutom väljer 80 procent av alla nystartade företag att inte anlita någon revisor. Tidigare forskning menar att revision kan vara en viktig faktor för att risken och därmed räntekostnaden vid kreditgivning till små företag ska minska, eftersom en revisor kan bidra med att säkerställa tillförlitligheten i företagets finansiella rapporter. Dessutom beskrivs i tidigare studier att företag som anlitar revisorer som arbetar på en stor och välkänd revisionsbyrå, så kallade Big Four-revisorer, eller som har en högre utbildningsnivå, erhåller en lägre räntekostnad. Då det inte finns tidigare kvantitativa studier som baseras på en svensk kontext syftar denna studie till att testa och förklara huruvida det finns ett samband mellan den frivilliga revisionen och företagets kostnader för lånat kapital i Sverige. Vidare syftar studien till att testa och förklara om sambandet är beroende av vilken typ av revisor som anlitas. Genom en litteraturstudie formuleras tre hypoteser, vilka testas med hjälp av ett flertal statistiska tester. Testerna utgår från 327 slumpmässigt utvalda företags årsredovisningar och varje hypotes testas var för sig för att kunna uppfylla studiens syfte. Resultatet visar att det finns ett signifikant samband mellan anlitandet av en revisor och ett företags kostnader för lånat kapital. Däremot stärker inte studien tidigare forskning angående huruvida anlitandet av en Big Four-revisor eller en auktoriserad revisor sänker räntekostnaden i ett företag. Slutsatsen för studien är därför att icke-revisionspliktiga aktiebolag i Sverige bör anlita en revisor för att erhålla lägre kostnader för lånat kapital, men vilken typ av revisor företaget anlitar är av mindre betydelse.
Hassan, Muhammad. "Production 4.0 of Ring Mill 4 Ovako AB." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Elektronik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-33405.
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