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Covid-19s påverkan på revisionsprocessen: Hur har revisorer beaktat Covid-19 i samband med revisionen?
Kristianstad University, Faculty of Business.
Kristianstad University, Faculty of Business.
2021 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
Covid-19's impact on the audit process : How have auditors considered Covid-19 in connection with the audit? (English)
Abstract [sv]

I slutet av år 2019 bröt viruset covid-19 ut som under senare tid ledde till en global pandemi som har påverkat både folkhälsan och ekonomin. Revisorernas arbete står inför en förändringsfas på grund av pandemin, där specifika delar i revisionen påverkats. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur revisorns åtgärder och bedömningar har påverkats till följd av Covid-19 under revisionsprocessens gång för att revisorn ska känna sig komfortabel med sitt genomförda arbete. Genom att studera komfort teorin och revisionsprocessen tre huvuddelar vilka är planeringsfasen, granskningsfasen och rapporteringsfasen möjliggörs en koppling till studiens insamlade empiri som resulterar i en analys av studiens resultat som vidare resulterar i välgrundade slutsatser och förslag på vidare forskning. Trots de rådande omständigheterna med covid-19 valdes ett genomförande av en kvalitativ studie. Detta gjordes med anledning av att få en mer djupgående förståelse kring vårt ämne. Empirin samlades in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer som utfördes via digitala möten med revisorer från två olika revisionsbyråer från Big-4. Studiens slutsats är att pandemin både haft positiv och negativ påverkan på revisionsprocessen och att revisorerna behöver vidta och genomföra fler åtgärder än tidigare för att uppnå komfort. 

Abstract [en]

Towards the end of 2019 the COVID-19 virus started spreading all over the world, which led to the global pandemic that has had an affect on both the public health and the economy. Because of the pandemic, specific parts of auditing have been affected, which has led to a change in the workload for auditors. The purpose of this study is to examine and analyse how the auditor's measures and assessments have been affected as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, and how auditors can feel comfortable while they perform their audit process. By examining and exploring the comfort theory and the three main parts of the audit process; the planning phase, the review phase, and the reporting phase, a connection to the study's collected empirical data is enabled and an analysis of the results will result in legitimate conclusions and suggestions for further research. Despite the current circumstances with COVID-19, a qualitative study was chosen. This was chosen in order to get a more in-depth understanding of the subject. The empirics were collected through semi-structured interviews conducted through digital meetings with auditors from two different Big-4 auditing firms. The study concludes that the global pandemic has had both a positive and a negative impact on the audit process, and that auditors need to take and implement further measures than before COVID-19 to achieve comfort.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021. , p. 74
Keywords [en]
Audit process, Auditor, Comfort, COIVID-19, Risk, Materiality, Going concern, Audit evidence
Keywords [sv]
Revisionsprocessen, revisor, komfort, Covid-19, risk, väsentlighet, fortsatt drift, revisionsbevis
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Business Administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-22202OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hkr-22202DiVA, id: diva2:1580308
Subject / course
Accounting and auditing
Educational program
Degree of Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics
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Available from: 2021-07-14 Created: 2021-07-14 Last updated: 2021-07-14Bibliographically approved

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