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“Auditors’ journey to the top”: The case of Sweden
Kristianstad University, Faculty of Business.
Kristianstad University, Faculty of Business.
2018 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Promotion to partner has always been a future goal for auditors, still becoming a partner is not an easy task, and it has many requirements, and since the audit profession is a sensitive profession and it concern everyone in the society, and since partners are the most important capital that audit firms have, so that is why we thought it is very important to investigate how this position can be reached?This research has a qualitative methodology and has interviews and internal documents as research strategy. The research consist of 7 interviews varied between authorized auditors who are still working in auditing firms or left it before becoming partners, partners and HR, the interviews were performed personally via phone or face to face.The findings are based on semi structured interviews and internal documents. There is significant effect between profitability and promotion to partner beside many more aspects such as Reputation, personal characteristics, promotion systems, personal branding, overtime, industry specialized, education and gender, but being profitable was the most important one.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018.
Keywords [en]
Promotion, Auditor, Partner, Profitability, Professionalism, Agency theory
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Business Administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-18376OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hkr-18376DiVA, id: diva2:1231996
Subject / course
Accounting and auditing
Educational program
Degree of Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics
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Social and Behavioural Science, Law
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Available from: 2018-07-10 Created: 2018-07-10 Last updated: 2018-07-10Bibliographically approved

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