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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2020.18.9.093

The Empirical Study on the Existence of the Opinion Shopping  

Shin, Chan-Hyu (Dept. of Business and Accounting, Andong National University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.18, no.9, 2020 , pp. 93-101 More about this Journal
Abstract
Although concerns about the opinion shopping have been continuously raised in the audit market, there has been little research on empirical evidence on the existence of audit opinions. For this reason, this study empirically confirmed whether the opinion shopping exists. At first, we measured thresholds of audit opinion issuing of two groups(changed or not-changed auditors). After that, the difference analysis was conducted to verify whether the thresholds of the audit opinion issuing was significant difference between two groups. As a result of the study, there was no significant difference in the thresholds of audit opinion issuing between two groups. This result can be interpreted that the audit opinion shopping is not a general phenomenon in the external audit market. The contribution of this study is to empirically confirmed that audit opinion shopping does not exist in the external audit market.
Keywords
Audit Opinion shopping; Thresholds of issuing audit opinion; Auditor change; Ordered logit; Ordered probit;
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