Investigating the Relationship between Management Efficiency and Auditor Change with Emphasis on the Role of Information Asymmetry

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between management efficiency(Ability)and auditor change with emphasis on the role of information asymmetry. For this purpose, 84 companies were surveyed for the period from 2009 to 2013 by statistical population screening method for 420 observations (year-company). Demerjian et al. (2012) model was used to measure management efficiency and Chiang and Venkatesh (1986) model was used to measure information asymmetry. The results of hypothesis testing using multivariate logistic regression showed that there was no significant relationship between management efficiency and auditor change. But the information asymmetry moderator variable significantly moderated the relationship between management performance and auditor change. The results showed that among the control variables, there was a significant relationship between the type of auditor's opinion and the firm size with the change of audit.