Spelar förtroendet någon roll? : Vid valet av K2 eller K3-reglerna

Sammanfattning: The Swedish Accounting Standards Board has developed rules of simplification to unlisted companies in Sweden. This project is called the K-project and is divided into four different categories, K1-K4, after the different companies’ size and legal form. The K-project was put together to develop how the ongoing reporting should be ended with an annual report. 2013 is the year to choose between K2 and K3-regulations in smaller, unlisted companies. Therefore, we wonder if the choice between those regulations will affect the trust in the relationship between the business management and the accounting consultant and/or the auditor. We used the trust theory because a lot of the companies outsourced both their ongoing accounting and/or their financial statement, the companies don’t always think that competence is within the company and some companies must use an auditor. Because of that we will find out how the companies trust is affected for the consultant or/and the auditor. To find out how the trust is in the company we did a qualitative study because we want to create a discussion about the trust, we need to describe it. We made a case study because we don’t want to compare K2 and K3-regulations with each other; we just like to use the regulations as our case. We decided to collect our data by interviewing ten persons in different companies and different branches. Our conclusion is that our companies don’t want to make any decisions about the regulation choice and they feel trust towards the consultant or auditor to make the decision. The trust is affected by the consultants or auditors honesty and wants them to tell both positive and negative things about the new accounting regulations.