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In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, corporate collapses, accounting scandals, and concerns around competition and auditor choice, the European Commission (EC) promoted the preparation of various reports on audit policy to support a harmonisation process of European auditing regulation. Consequently, the European Union (EU) Audit Regulation and Directive was implemented from 2016. This book provides a timely picture of the audit sector and how it responds to regulatory and technological challenges. It analyses the impact of EU reforms on audit practices by comparing the UK and Italy, which, representing two very different regulatory and cultural contexts, will offer insight into how the efforts at standardising audit regulation may lead to very different organisational firm responses within Europe. It addresses issues relating to public policy work and the concerns faced by the market for audit and assurance services, in promoting audit quality, better communication about the role of the auditor, capital market stability and confidence, and auditor independence. Moreover, it highlights what the future of auditing might look like in the EU particularly now that the UK has left, and how meeting public expectations will continue to be a struggle for the accounting profession given the many problems ahead. The book encourages a deeper awareness of the challenges faced by those that monitor and certify the financial statements of the world’s largest public companies and contributes to the general understanding of this controversial industry. It will serve as a useful guide to the recent EU audit reforms, not only for academics, and research students but also to regulators, policymakers, standard setters, industry professionals, and business executives worldwide.
In this important new book, the European Auditing Research Network gives a timely appraisal of the regulatory environment for financial accounting and auditing in the wake of a series of high profile scandals involving major corporations.
Recoge: 1.Introduction - 2.Overview of laws and regulations regarding the role, position and liability of the statutory auditor - 3.The establishment of an internal market for audit services - 4.Audit qualility:internal market, independence, contents of the audit and liability - 5.Summary ad recommendations.
Christiane Strohm investigates the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley-Act and the revised 8th EU-Directive on auditing. She shows that there is a difference in the communication and safeguarding effects of a regulation, depending on the precision of its wording and that safeguarding effects also depend on auditors' monetary incentives and on perceived costs of litigation.
This note seeks to provide a detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's Impact Assessment (IA) accompanying the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2006/43/EC on statutory audits of annual accounts and consolidated accounts, and the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on specific requirements regarding statutory audit of public-interest entities (PIEs). It does not attempt to deal with the substance of the proposal, but rather analyses whether the impact assessment provided by the Commission will help the JURI Committee's consideration of the proposal, in full knowledge of the facts, and whether the impact assessment meets, firstly, the standards which the Commission has laid down in its internal Impact Assessment Guidelines, and, secondly, the quality criteria which the Parliament has defined in its resolutions on the subject -- EU Bookshop.
Enabling power: European Communities Act 1972, s. 2 (2) & Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000, ss. 15, 17 & Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004, s. 18A & Companies Act 2006, ss. 484 (1), 519A (5), 1239 (1) (b) (2) (5) (d), 1241 (2) (c), 1246 (1), 1252 (1) (4) (a) (8), 1292 (1) (2) & European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, ss. 8 (1), 23 (1), sch. 7, para. 21. Issued: 12.11.2018. Sifted: -. Made: -. Laid: -. Coming into force: In accord. with reg. 2. Effect: 1986 c.53; 2004 c.27; 2006 c.46; 2014 c.2; S.I. 2008/565, 1911; 2012/1741; 2013/1672; 2016/571, 649 amended. Territorial extent & classification: E/W/S/NI. EC note: These Regulations address failures of retained EU law to operate effectively and other deficiencies (in particular under paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) of section 8(2) of that Act) arising from the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union. Part 5 contains amendments made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), which implement aspects of Article 32 of Directive 2006/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on statutory audits of annual accounts and consolidated accounts. Regulation (EU) 537/2014 is amended & Commission Decisions 2008/627/EC; 2010/64, 485/EU; 2011/30/EU; Commission Implementing Decisions 2013/281/EU, 288/EU; 2016/1010/EU, 1155/EU, 1156/EU, 1223/EU are revoked. For approval by resolution of each House of Parliament
Purpose: The individual EU Member States have options on how they implement the new statutory audit framework in Europe. They may introduce stricter rules or apply certain exemptions where deemed appropriate. Denmark exemplifies Member States with a traditionally high level of non-audit services provided by its auditors. The aim of this study is to contrast the minimum implementation rationale observed in the Danish implementation process with an ex ante examination of fee dependency.Design/methodology/approach: The audit reform introduces a cap on non-audit fees which implies a regulator-determined condition of non-independence. The cap is applied as a treatment effect on the ex ante relationship between audit fees and non-audit fees. In a sample with 3,238 observations, Denmark is compared with Finland, Germany, Sweden and the UK in order to determine whether the new measure will have different implications. Findings: The findings support the regulators' concern that auditors of public interest entities (PIEs) with high levels of non-audit services are more likely to have self-interest threats. The findings also suggest that the implications of the harmonization process will be different across countries. Denmark is singled out as having particular dependency issues which are not sufficiently recognized in the minimum implementation rationale applied by the national legislators.Originality/value: This study establishes that the measures in the new audit reform likely will have some effect in most Member States, but for certain countries like Denmark, there will be greater effects on the future provision of non-audit services.
Enabling power: European Communities Act 1972, s. 2 (2) & Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000, ss. 15 (a), 17 & Companies Act 2006, ss. 454 (3) (4), 1292 (1) (a) (c). Issued: 05.12.2017. Made: 28.11.2017. Laid: 30.11.2017. Coming into force: In accord. with reg. 1 (2) (3). Effect: 1986 c.53; 1992 c.40; 2006 c.46; S.I. 2008/373, 565, 1911; 2012/1741; 2016/649 amended & 1969 c.24 (NI); 2014 c.14 modified & S.I. 2001/3649; 2004/3379; 2013/472; 2016/649 partially revoked & S.I. 2005/1984, 1985; 2008/567 revoked; 2006 c.46 partially repealed. Territorial extent & classification: E/W/S/NI. General. EC note: These Regulations implement obligations in DIR 2014/56/EU on statutory audits of annual accounts & consolidated accounts & Reg (EU) 537/2014 on specific requirements regarding statutory audit of public-interest entities & repealing Commission Dec. 2005/909/EC