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
Category Archives: Regulation Oversight
A Summary of FRC’s Developments in Audit 2019
On November 5, 2019, UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) released its Developments in Audit 2019 survey to highlight the Council’s audit monitoring and enforcement results for the previous year. Included in the report are some observations on the current audit market … Continue reading
PCAOB Announces 2019-2023 Strategic Plan
On November 19th, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) approved its 2019-2023 Strategic Plan, as well as its fiscal 2020 budget of $284.7 million. The plan, which guides the PCAOB’s operations and serves as the foundation of the budget, … Continue reading
What Investors Need to Know About Audits
On Monday, November 4, 2019, the CFA Society of New York hosted What Investors Need to Know About Audits, a forum that focused on the state of today’s audit process, how it has and continues to change over time, and … Continue reading
2018 Financial Restatements Review
The annual Audit Analytics report on financial restatement trends is now available. This report provides a detailed analysis and comparison of trends in financial restatements over an eighteen-year period. When looking at restatements, we categorize them by two levels: reissuance restatements and revision restatements. Reissuance restatements, sometimes … Continue reading
Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases (AAERs): Q1 and Q2 of 2019
An extended version of this article was first available to subscribers of Accounting Quality Insights by Audit Analytics on Bloomberg, Refinitiv Eikon, FactSet, and S&P Global. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provides a list of certain enforcement actions related … Continue reading
Pros and Cons of Using Non-GAAP Metrics for Executive Compensation, Including ESG Considerations
This article was first available to subscribers of Accounting Quality Insights by Audit Analytics on Bloomberg, Eikon, FactSet, and S&P Global. There has been considerable debate about companies that use non-GAAP metrics for executive compensation and whether these firms are … Continue reading