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
Category Archives: Audit Opinions – Europe
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
Trends in Auditor Market Concentration in Select European Countries
When the European Union recently enacted sweeping regulation of the auditor market, requiring, among other things, auditor rotation at least every 20 years, one of the stated goals was to increase competition in the market. The hope was two-pronged: first, … Continue reading
EU Auditor Market Share: 2017 Audit Reports
Of more than 600 companies included in the major large and mid-cap indices in five of the largest countries in Europe, over 98% are audited by one of the Big Four. The remaining 1% were audited by either BDO or … Continue reading