This paper analyzes a game theoretic model in which a client can potentially avoid a going concern opinion and its self fulfilling prophecy by switching auditors. Incumbent auditors are less willing to express a going concern opinion the more credible the client's threat of dismissal and the...

This paper analyzes a game theoretic model in which a client can potentially avoid a going concern opinion and its self fulfilling prophecy by switching auditors. Incumbent auditors are less willing to express a going concern opinion the more credible the client's threat of dismissal and the...