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Purpose: The purpose of our paper is to investigate the attitudes and impacts of the following three stakeholders: the Swedish Tax Agency, banks and audit firms after the abolition of the audit requirement.

Theoretical framework: Theories explaining the purpose of auditing are several. Three of these theories highlighted in Carrington's (2014) book are audit as assurance, improvement and insurance.

Methodology: This essay uses a qualitative method. The data collection includes information taken from seven semi-structured interviews and constitutes the empirical material of the paper. The empirical data is analysed where it is also set against with the theoretical framework.

Empirical: The empirical chapter of this essay introduces the results of the interview, i.e. the respondent's answers, opinions and thoughts. The results show that the respondents have similar views on the abolished audit requirement. Most of them have a positive attitude towards the change and they have also seen an improvement.

Results and conclusion: In our study, we have found that the abolition of the audit requirement has had no significant impact on either audit firms or banks. However, the TaxAgency has been affected. Increased tax errors and tax offences have led to the need for more resources and more control for the the Swedish Tax Agency. The abolition of the audit requirement has reduced the credibility of annual accounts, which has led banks to require companies wishing to borrow money to have their annual accounts audited by an auditor. We have also seen a tendency for small businesses to opt out of auditing to minimise costs