Audit Analytics released its third annual Trends in Cybersecurity Breaches report last week. This report delves into trends in public company disclosures of cyber breaches since 2011. The analysis, covering 2011 through 2020, examines a full decade worth of data. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Reports
Going Concerns – A Twenty-Year Review
In our latest report, Going Concerns: A Twenty- Year Review, we examine the trends and statistics of going concerns (opinions qualified by an uncertainty regarding the going concern assumption) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission since 2000. Leveraging the Audit … Continue reading
Serving Their Purpose? Insights on Critical + Key Audit Matters
Audit Analytics’ recently released report – Serving Their Purpose? Insights on Critical and Key Audit Matters – provides a comprehensive look at the U.S. and international audit matter standards and the disclosure diversity among audit matters based on the different … Continue reading
Monitoring the Audit Market in Europe
Audit Analytics recently released a new report, Monitoring the Audit Market in Europe. Using our extensive databases, our analysts compiled this timely report which examines the impacts of the European Commission’s 2014 Audit Directive and Audit Regulation. These two pieces … Continue reading
Eighteen Year Review of Audit & Non-Audit Fee Trends
Audit Analytics’ most recent report, Eighteen Year Review of Audit Fee & Non-Audit Fee Trends, was released last week. Using data from our Audit Fees database, this report provides a detailed analysis and comparison of trends in audit and non-audit … Continue reading
SOX 404 Disclosures: A Sixteen Year Review
In 2019, 6.3% of SOX 404 auditor attestations disclosed ineffective internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) – significantly less than the 38.8% of management assessments that disclosed ineffective ICFR. The consistent level – around 39% – since 2013 indicates that … Continue reading
2019 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 a nineteen-year period. When looking at restatements, we categorize them by two levels: reissuance restatements and revision restatements. Reissuance restatements, sometimes referred … Continue reading