“…Author(s) agree that this article remain permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License and developing, audit expectation gap (AEG) has been considered comprehensively and established to be in actuality. Examples abound, however herein is a sample: in the UK (Humphrey et al, 1993;Dewing and Russel 2002), Australia (Gay and Schelluch, 1993;Schelluch and Gay, 2006), US (Schelluch, 1996;Frank et al, 2001;Almer and Brody, 2002;McEnroe and Martens, 2001), Netherlands (Hassink et al, 2009), South Africa (Gloeck and De Jager, 1993), China (Lin and Chen, 2004), UK/New Zealand (Porter et al, 2012), Egypt (Dixon et al, 2006), Malta (Desira and Baldacchino, 2005), Singapore (Best et al, 2001), Ghana (Onumah et al, 2009), Iran (Pourheydari and Abousaiedi, 2011), Malaysia (Fadzly and Ahmad, 2004), Bangladesh (Chowdhury and Innes, 1998;Chowdhury et al, 2005;Siddiqui et al, 2009), Saudi Arabia (Haniffa and Hudaib, 2007), Lebanon (Sidani, 2007), Libya (Masoud, 2017), Nigeria (Adeyemi and Uadiale, 2011;Olojede et al, 2020), and Barbados (Alleyne and Howard, 2005).…”