Auditors Can Be Influenced By Management Preferences, Study Says http://blogs.wsj.com/cfo/2017/03/21/auditors-can-be-influenced-by-management-preferences-study-says/
"The amount of information a company’s management provides its supposedly independent auditors strongly influences the decisions they make, according to a study by the University of Missouri."
Read the article and tell me that you, as a finance professional haven't learned this with our interactions with auditors over the years?