Gender bias in certified public accounting firms.

• Main Authors: Tan, Bee Cheng, Tan, Sio Mui, Toh, Swee Shean
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::Accounting
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59724
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

With the ever -increasing number of women venturing into the work force, many researches have been done on women executives. Despite the number of studies conducted, none of them was carried out on women auditors in Singapore. Being future contributors to the auditing profession, the concern for career prospects, discrimination and how male auditors view their female counterparts have been the motivation for this project. The purpose of this report is to provide some evidence on whether there is a difference in perception of gender bias in Certified Public Accounting (CPA) firms by size, gender and positions held in the firms. Results from both univariate and multivariate tests indicate that auditors' perceptions of gender bias differ across hierarchical levels in CPA firms. The evidence obtained here strongly suggests that auditors from upper level of positions place great importance in ability.