Siddiqui and Podder (2002) examine the effectiveness of audit of 14 banks operating in Bangladesh. The authors obtain the information for their study through interviews with bank managers, accountants and auditors, while banks’ audited financial statements are used as a secondary source of information. They found that while seven banks had actually overstated their profits, none of the audit firms auditing these banks expressed a qualified opinion and only three of them expressed unqualified reports with modified wording, while the remaining issued clean audit reports. Consequently, the authors question the level of independence, objectivity, and competence of the auditors.