When considering the concentration of the audit market – that is, how competitive the market is between audit firms – there is more than one way to measure control of the market beyond the number of clients an audit firm … Continue reading
Author Archives: John Pakaluk
EEA Auditor Transparency Reports Now Available
Audit Analytics recently released a new feature that will be of interest to observers of the European audit market. Our auditor profile pages now include the annual Transparency Reports of European audit firms. With this new feature, you can easily … Continue reading
Overview of European Key Audit Matter (KAM) Disclosures
The disclosure of Key Audit Matters (KAMs) has been required for over a year now, and there is a lot of data available to be analyzed. In this post, we look at the KAM disclosures of more than 1,200 companies … Continue reading
When Cash is “Key”
Cash may be king, but when it comes to auditing, cash is not usually considered a high risk area. The audit procedures around cash usually begin and end with confirming the balance on hand with the company’s banks, and there … Continue reading
Year-End European Audit Fees Starting to Roll In
December 31, 2018 year-end annual reports are starting to roll in, and with them our European research team is hard at work extracting audit fee and other audit-related data from them. As of February 18, we have audit fee disclosures … Continue reading
Implications of the CMA’s Call for a Joint Audit among the FTSE 350
Last week, the Competition and Markets Authority (UK) released an update paper regarding its study of the audit market in the United Kingdom. In the paper, the CMA made a number of striking proposals that, if implemented, would lead to … Continue reading
An Overview of European Stock Exchanges
Audit Analytics offers a suite of data products covering European companies. With comprehensive databases of Audit Opinions, Audit Fees, Auditor Tenure, Key Audit Matters, and Transparency Reports, we track over 6,000 companies listed on exchanges across all 31 countries in … Continue reading