“…The Centre for Audit Quality's overview of quality indicators include a firm's leadership and tone at the top that upholds and adheres to the professional standards, independence, objective and accountable towards their audit reports, engagement team must have sufficient knowledge, experienced and time to complete the task (CAQ, 2014). Prior studies have indicated that, to achieve high audit quality, auditing firms prefer to recruit capable and competent individuals with relevant audit certifications and then continuously enhance their skills and knowledge by providing them with relevant training and investing in continuing professional education (Venuti, Holtzman & Basile, 2002;Lim & Tan, 2010;Gul, Donghui & Zhifeng, 2013;Zahmatkesh & Rezazadeh, 2017). Studies also noted that individual state of preparedness for audit execution increases when these individuals are provided with relevant training to enhance their level of competency (Chen, Hsu, Huang & Yang, 2013;Hoa, Pesi, Thanh & Sang, 2014).…”