When a Bid Price for Audit Services by an Audit

question 21

Multiple Choice

When a bid price for audit services by an audit firm is quoted at an unreasonably low level to win the tender, with any unrecovered audit costs recovered subsequently through other services or by other means, it is called:

• A)opinion shopping.
• B)low-balling.
• C)tender fixing.
• D)kick-backs.

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