An analysis of determinants of going concern audit opinion: Evidence from Spain stock exchange

José Luis Gallizo ^[1] ; Ramon Saladrigues ^[1]
1. [1] Universitat de Lleida
  
  Universitat de Lleida
  
  Lérida, España
Localización: Intangible Capital, ISSN-e 1697-9818, Vol. 12, Nº. 1, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: VI Congrés Català de Comptabilitat i Direcció), págs. 1-16
Idioma: español
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- Purpose: The main objective of this article is to go in-depth into the relationship between going concern audit opinion and certain characteristics of the company and auditor, including financial decline.
  
  Design/methodology/approach: A Logit analysis was carried out in order to enable us to discover the probability of receiving a going concern audit opinion.
  
  Findings: Characteristics of the company and characteristics of the auditor are discussed, and the analysis indicates that it is not financial decline, but rather registering losses and being audited by a small-scale auditor, that increase the likelihood of a company receiving a going concern audit opinion.
  
  Practical implications: The results obtained are interesting for the profession and users because they provide evidence of the reasons that converge in the cases where a going concern audit opinion is included in the auditing reports of companies characterised by being immersed in a financial crisis.
  
  Originality/value: This article considers the circumstances of both the company and the auditing process, which influence the fact that the auditing report includes a going concern audit opinion. In addition, the article includes the financial decline, and let us to analyze if the decline of the company’s financial position between t-1 and t causes the auditor to include a going concern audit opinion.