Literature review on audit opinion-shopping

Abstract

Reviewing the literature can always help us find the limitation of previous studies. This work offers a review of the literature related to the audit opinion-shopping of foreign and Spanish research. The review is organized on the opinion-shopping at the firm level and at the partner level. For each of the two modalities, with which a company can pretend to obtain an opinion different from what it really deserves, the findings related to the investigations carried out by various auditors are discussed. It is concluded that the methodology developed by Lennox (2000) was a turning point in the investigations carried out so far, since the fact of retaining the current auditor can also be a way to participate in the "audit opinion-shopping".