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IPO Accounting and Legal Fees: 2015 Update

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Michalina Bogdan and Jean Bradford

The average total accounting and legal fees for IPO companies in US markets dropped again in 2015, continuing a downward trend line from a peak in 2013. Average accounting fees in 2015 declined by 23% while average legal fees declined by … Continue reading →

Posted in Audit + Compliance, Audit Fees, Corporate + Legal, Initial Public Offerings (IPO)

Comment Letters with No Response

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Mercedes Erickson

What happens when a company doesn’t return or fully comply with an SEC comment letter? Receiving a comment letter from the SEC might cause a CFO to suffer some heartburn, but usually the process is no cause for undue concern. Under … Continue reading →

Posted in SEC Comment Letters

Q3 2016 IPOs: Auditor Market Share and More

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Jessica Hotham

Overview There were 44 initial public offerings in U.S. markets between July 1, 2016 and September 30, 2016, raising $7 billion. That is a slight increase from the $6.2 billion raised by 40 IPOs last quarter. All told, there have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Audit + Compliance, Emerging Growth Companies, Initial Public Offerings (IPO), Market Share

Benford’s Law Among the Russell 3000

Posted on October 14, 2016 by John Pakaluk

Benford’s Law, an arcane rule from the math books, is making something of a splash in the world of financial analysis. The basic idea is this: in certain sets of data (the lengths of a collection of rivers, the populations … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, AQRM, Quality of Reporting

2015 SEC Filing Highlights, Part 2 of 2

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Brendan Hannen

This is part two of our SEC filing review where we take a look back at notable disclosures and outliers from our auditor changes, out-of-period adjustments, changes in accounting estimates, and director and officer change data sets. Auditor Changes 1,007 SEC registrants … Continue reading →

Posted in Auditor Changes, Changes in Accounting Estimates, Director & Officer Changes, Out of Period Adjustments

Literature Review: “An Analysis and Taxonomy of Disclosure Controls and Procedures Effectiveness”

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Joey Bonaldi

In a recent post, we discussed trends in Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 302 Disclosure Controls and Procedures (“DC&P”, or “SOX 302”) filings, and highlighted some reasons why disclosure controls may be of interest to investors and stakeholders. In this post, we look at … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Disclosure Controls (SOX 302)

New Tool for Law Firm Market Intelligence

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Michalina Bogdan and Ferol Smith

Audit Analytics recently introduced a new field designed to answer the question “who counsels who”. On our Company Profile pages, we now show which law firm most recently represented the given company. In addition to showing the outside counsel on the overview section … Continue reading →

Posted in Corporate + Legal, Corporate Governance, Law Firms, Litigation, Market Share

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