This paper examines the images of audit firms in Spain. Spain offers a valuable research context in that it is a relatively new audit market and one where the top company audits are not totally dominated by the large multinational audit firms, allowing for a comparison of the images of such...

In recent years, there has been a large growth in audit markets around the world as many formerly planned economies have moved to become market economies (transitional economies) and the Big Six (now the Big Five) accountancy firms have established a large presence in many of these economies....

Publication in the social sciences appears to have evolved into a game, played by four parties: the author, the reviewers, the editor and the bureaucrats using the simple criterion that a quality researcher publishes in quality journals. Acceptance rates for top quality journals now hover around...

This paper examines the links between the ways in which auditors are licensed in eleven EU countries and the cultures of those countries using the model developed by Gray (1988). The paper shows that there are significant differences in the ways that auditor licensing is carried out and that...