Journal of Economics, Business, & Accountancy Ventura
Vol 20, No 2 (2017): August - November 2017

The Effect of Audit Opinion, Financial Distress, Client Size, Management Turn and KAP Size on Auditor Switching

Novi Darmayanti (Universitas islam darul ulum lamongan)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Oct 2017

Abstract

The issue of Auditor Independence, the most frequently, makes the debate of auditor rotation. This auditor rotation is related to the company activity for doing auditor switching. Some previous studies showed that switching auditors leads to the various result and it needs to hold rediscovery and to verify the theory of auditor switching. The study Aimed to test empirically the  auditor opinion, financial distress, the client company size, management turnover, and KAP size toward auditor switching on  manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI) in 2010 until 2014. The study is an explanatory quantitative research with purposive sampling technique for the collection of data. The 39 manufacturing companies used as a sample. The study used SPSS Application with 18 version and regression logistics to test the hypothesis because the independent variable is the combination between metric and non-metric. The result of the study Showed that the independent variable has an effect on auditor switching and auditor’s opinion. Financial distress, the client company size, management turnover and the firm size do not affect the auditor switching. 

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jebav

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Journal of Economics, Business and Accountancy (JEBAV) addresses economics, business, banking, management and accounting issues that are new developments in business excellence and best practices, and methodologies to determine these in manufacturing and financial service organisations. It considers ...