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Auditor-Client Relationship: Perceived Expectation and Issues

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We report on a survey of auditor-client relationship problems in developed audit market in Malaysia. The study investigates client perspectives and views on important auditing process issues, valued added audit activities for client organisations and auditor rotation. Clients viewed high fees, excessive audit time requirements, difficulty in meeting auditor’s requests and audit personnel difficulties in understanding the business due to a lack of adequate audit professionals’ experience as problems. From the audit perspective, the study explores audit client acceptance factors, independence issues and common problems encountered with the clients.

Keywords: Auditor-Client Relationship; Malaysia

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: 1: Faculty of Accountancy, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 26400 Jengka, Malaysia 2: Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 26400 Jengka, Malaysia

Publication date: 01 April 2017

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