that independence commitment for accountants
working in the Big Four organizations is lower (by
about 0.8 units) than their counterparts in medium
and small size firms.
The non-significant coefficient for the proportion
of time worked in accounting/auditing in this
analysis (p = 0.26) indicates that public accountants’
independence commitment is unlikely to be substantially
affected by one’s proportion of time
involvement in core areas – while that of non-public
accountants is (as explained in the previous regression
analysis involving the interaction effect).
In contrast to our expectations, the coefficient for
client commitment is positive and statistically significant
(p = 0.00). This means that a five-point increase in
client commitment is associated with about a one point
increase in the independence commitment value. In
other words, the higher that one is committed to the
client, the higher is her/his independence commitment.
Hence, the results do not support H1e.
Similar to the previous regression, age and province
of work: Que´bec are significant predictors in this set of
analysis. Finally, with regard to the control variables,
none of the coefficients were significant. Therefore,
it appears that the proportion of time spent on tax
(previously found to be negatively significant) only
has a significant effect for individuals in the
non-public practice setting