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Revisionsberättelser under en pandemi: En kvantitativ studie om finansiella faktorers samband med orena revisionsberättelser
University of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business.
University of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business.
2022 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 240 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
Audit reports during a pandemic : A quantitative study on the relationship of financial factors with qualified audit reports (English)
Abstract [sv]

I mars 2020 informerade Folkhälsomyndigheten om en global pandemi. Arbetsgivare tvingades uppmana sina medarbetare att arbeta hemifrån vilket bland annat påverkade revisorernas arbetssätt. Revisorernas främsta uppgift är att kontrollera och granska företags redovisning för att sedan uttala sig i en revisionsberättelse, vilket försvårats under pandemin i och med distansarbete. Tidigare forskning påvisar att försämrade nyckeltal har ett samband med orena revisionsberättelser. Syftet med studien är att undersöka i vilken utsträckning följande faktorer har en påverkan på förekomsten av orena revisionsberättelser innan och under en pandemi; soliditet, räntabilitet på totalt kapital, rörelsemarginal, kassalikviditet och förlust föregående år. Genom en kvantitativ undersökning har data hämtats från 477 svenska noterade mikro, små, medel och stora företags årsredovisningar. Genom t-test och multipel regression har fem variabler undersökts för att finna sambandet med orena revisionsberättelser. Hypoteser har ställts upp för respektive variabel och dess samband med orena revisionsberättelser. Regressionsanalysen visar att ju lägre räntabilitet på totalt kapital, desto större är sannolikheten att erhålla en oren revisionsberättelse. Går företag med förlust tidigare år är sannolikheten större att erhålla en oren revisionsberättelser än de företag som inte gått med förlust. Studien visar inte på något signifikant samband mellan lägre soliditet, rörelsemarginal samt kassalikviditet och en högre sannolikhet att erhålla en oren revisionsberättelse.

Abstract [en]

In March 2020, the Public Health Agency of Sweden announced a global pandemic. Managers were forced to encourage their employees to work from home, which, among other things, affected the auditors' way of working. The auditors' main task is to check and review companies' accounting and then make a statement in an audit report, which has been made more difficult during the pandemic due to teleworking. Previous research shows that deteriorating key ratios are associated with qualified audit reports. The purpose of the study is to investigate the extent to which the following factors have an impact on the occurrence of qualified audit reports, before and during a pandemic; equity ratio, return on total capital, operating margin, cash liquidity and loss in the previous year. Through a quantitative survey, data has been obtained from the annual reports of 477 Swedish listed micro, small, medium and large companies. Through independent sample t-test and multiple regression, five variables have been examined to find the relationship with qualified audit reports. Hypotheses have been set up for each variable and its relationship with qualified audit reports. The regression analysis shows that the lower the return on total capital, the greater the probability of obtaining a qualified audit report. If the company makes a loss in previous years, the company is more likely to receive a qualified audit report than the companies that did not make a loss. The study does not show any significant relationship between lower equity ratio, operating margin or cash liquidity and a higher probability of obtaining any qualified audit reports. This paper is written in Swedish.

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2022.
Keywords [en]
Audit report, Audit quality, Equity ratio, Operating margin, Return on total capital, Liquidity, Loss, Agency theory
Keywords [sv]
Revisionsberättelse, Revisionskvalitet, Soliditet, Rörelsemarginal, Räntabilitet på totalt kapital, Likviditet, Förlust, Agentteorin
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Business Administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-28138OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-28138DiVA, id: diva2:1678378
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Företagsekonomi - Civilekonom
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Available from: 2022-06-29 Created: 2022-06-29 Last updated: 2022-06-29Bibliographically approved

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