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CC-commissioned survey


Date of referral: 21.10.11        Statutory deadline: 20.10.13

Email: auditors@cc.gsi.gov.uk


CC-commissioned survey

On 1 February 2012 the CC, as part of its investigation into the statutory audit market in the UK, announced its intention to carry out a survey to collect information from companies who are subject to a statutory audit. Links to the survey outputs, produced by IFF Research, are given below. A link is also provided to the survey moderator report, produced by the Competition Commission’s independent quality assessor.

On the 26 October 2012 the CC announced its intention to carry out a follow-up survey with Audit Committee Chairs of FTSE 350 companies. Links to the survey outputs, produced by IFF Research, are given below.

PaperDate published 
Follow-up survey

Audit Committee Chair follow-up research

Technical report (PDF, 247 Kb) 

Research tabulations (XLSX, 85 Kb) 

Verbatim responses (XLSX, 139 Kb) 

 

 

19.12.12

19.12.12

19.12.12

First survey
Survey presentation (PPT, 6.0 Mb)  26.07.12
Technical report (PDF, 462 Kb)  26.07.12

Five sets of tabulations, as follows (please note that rows that contain a single response have been removed to protect anonymity):

 

 

24.01.13

 

 

 

 

 

26.07.12

22.02.13

Survey moderator report (PDF, 120 Kb)  26.07.12

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