Question

The audit expectation gap occurs when there is a difference between the expectations of the ________. a. generally accepted accounting principles and auditors. b. auditors and company under review. c. auditors and financial statement users. d. company under review and financial statement users.

Answer 1

c. auditors and financial statement users.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is because, the auditors and the financial statement users tends to have different views on what their responsibilities are. Since their views differs, their tend to be a gap which occurs. This gap is called audit expectation gap. This could be minimized through self regulating auditing of the financial statement before the final auditing by auditors.