Eleven out of the 100 companies listed on the FTSE MIB and the FTSE Italia Midcap changed their auditors from 2016 to 2017, and seven of those companies saw their audit fees decrease. The transposition of the European Audit Reform … Continue reading
Going Concerns – An Eighteen Year Review
In our latest report, 2017 Going Concerns: An Eighteen Year Review, we examine the trends and statistics of going concern audit opinions filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission since 2000. This report analyzes going concern totals and percentages of … Continue reading
EU Statutory Audit Reform
Audit Analytics was recently cited in a study commissioned by the European Parliament, EU Statutory Audit Reform: Impact on costs, concentration and competition. The authors, Marlene Willekens, Simon Dekeyser, and Ines Simac of KU Leuven and BI Norwegian Business School, … Continue reading
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
Slow Adoption Progress of ASC 842 – Leases
Note: This article was first available to subscribers of Accounting Quality Insights by Audit Analytics on Bloomberg, Eikon, FactSet, and S&P Global. Now that the new lease accounting standard ASC 842 is effective, we see that public companies are progressing … Continue reading
Recognizing Challenges of New Revenue Recognition Rule
Note: This article was first available to subscribers of Accounting Quality Insights by Audit Analytics on Bloomberg, Eikon, FactSet, and S&P Global. For recent updates, please contact us. Introduction For nearly two years, we have monitored U.S. public companies’ progress … Continue reading
When Does a Canadian Company’s Year End?
In the past, Audit Analytics has analyzed year-end dates for public companies. For companies with a calendar year-end fiscal year, the weeks leading up to April 15th are exceptionally busy for financial professionals. To see how busy this “busy season” … Continue reading