Prior research suggests that the going-concern reporting decision is among the most difficult and ambiguous audit tasks (Chow et. al. 1987, 129; Carmichael and Pany 1993, 49). Moreover, Salterio and Koonce (1997, 573) find that auditors facing an ambiguous situation are likely to adopt the client’s position. Levitt (2000, 5) argues that it is in these “gray areas” where the “temptation to ‘see it the way your client does’ is subtle, yet real.”