... value The Review of Financial Studies 21, 13 71 14 01 Lennox, C., 2000 Do companies successfully engage in opinion shopping? The UK experience Journal of Accounting and Economics 29, 3 21 337 Myers, ... 1 À kqÞ k 1 À qÞ g: À kq 14 Þ T Lu, K Sivaramakrishnan / J Account Public Policy 28 (2009) 71 91 89 Substituting the above value of k into (13 ) yields VC ¼ k : C 15 Þ Thus, from (15 ) and (12 ), ... agency: the case of audit and nonaudit services The Accounting Review 79, 17 3–200 Krishnan, J., 19 94 Auditor switching and conservatism The Accounting Review 69, 200– 215 Kumar, P., Sivaramakrishnan,...
... Office 1A 1B King County does not have standard construction management procedures 1C King County construction management data, files, and records are not consistently maintained and are not readily ... covers 2 ,13 1 square miles, giving it the 11 th largest geographic area of Washington‘s 39 counties It is the financial, economic, transportation and industrial center of the Pacific Northwest ... Metro Transit serves 10 0 million riders annually The 2008 adopted budget was $1. 1 billion; Metro has approximately 4 ,15 7 full-time employees Metro operates a fleet of about 1, 300 vehicles, including...
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... is generally not appropriate, and runs contrary to the notion that “an audit is an audit” However, these stakeholders supported the building blocks approach, believing that this approach would ... also acknowledges that other, perhaps longer-term, considerations are equally important As noted in the IAASB’s May 2 011 consultation, many believe that the type of change necessary to appropriately ... within auditors’ reports 17 Greater Prominence to the Auditor’s Opinion 18 A number of respondents to the IAASB’s May 2 011 consultation, particularly regulators, supported making the auditor’s...
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