“…But from the empirical evidence of the existing literature, (Ahadiat, 2011;Caso, García, López, & Martínez, 2003;Duréndez & Sánchez, 2008;Ruiz-Barbadillo, Gómez, & Carrera, 2006;Xu, Carson, Fargher, & Jiang, 2013;Xu, Jiang, Fargher, & Carson, 2011;Zdolsek & Jagric, 2011), auditors are somewhat reluctant to issue either of these last two opinions, and it can be appreciated that, in general, there is a tendency to classify reports into two major sections, favourable reports and qualified reports, including in the latter qualified, refused and unfavourable reports.…”