How much should an audit cost? That is a difficult question to answer; it’s not as simple as charging an hourly rate. There are many factors that affect the overall cost of an audit: the amount of time and labor … Continue reading
Category Archives: Audit Fees
Decade of Data: Trends in Audit Fees Across Europe
This is the first post of our Decade of Data series which will highlight our Europe databases containing ten years of data. As mentioned in last week’s post, the Audit Analytics Europe Audit Fees database now contains audit fees dating … Continue reading
An Overview of European Databases
Audit Analytics offers a suite of data products covering public companies listed on European exchanges across 31 countries in the EEA and Switzerland, which includes comprehensive databases of Audit Fees, Audit Opinions, Auditor Changes, Auditor Engagements, Key Audit Matters, and … Continue reading
Non-Audit Fees Among S&P 500
A review of non-audit fees in relation to overall audit fees is an interesting comparison, as the SEC considers high non-audit fees to be an auditor independence concern. If an auditor earns a large amount of fees performing non-audit fee … Continue reading
Seventeen Year Review of Audit Fee and Non-Audit Fee Trends
Audit Analytics has released its annual audit fees report, Seventeen Year Review of Audit Fee and Non-Audit Fee Trends, which focuses on the audit and non-audit fees paid and disclosed by accelerated and large accelerated filers over a seventeen-year period. A … Continue reading
FTSE 350 Auditor Changes and Fees
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This post has been updated to display fees in GBP.1 Between 2017 and 2018, 36 companies listed on the FTSE 350 changed their auditors, increasing audit fees for 21 of those companies.2 Effective since mid-2016, Directive 2014/56/EU together with Regulation … Continue reading
Three Ways to Measure Market Concentration: A Comparison Between the UK and Germany
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