New Audit Report AFAANZ

Published on Jun 27, 2018

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Assessing the Impact of the New Auditor's Report

Li, Hay, Lau

New Audit Report in NZ

In New Zealand

  • 15 December 2016
  • Listed companies
  • Early adopters, voluntary adopters
  • Materiality
  • Future extension

Expected effects

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Audit quality

More? Less?

Audit fees

Extent of work; liability; competition

Highlights

  • Abnormal accruals are lower
  • Audit fees are higher

Method

  • Abnormal accruals
  • Performance matched
  • Absolute plus positive and negative
  • Audit fee model

Data

New Zealand listed companies

Results

  • ABS_ACC lower
  • Positive and negative accruals lower
  • Audit fees higher, 9.3%

Voluntary adoption

Issues

  • Later years?
  • XRB/FMA stocktake: "practitioners and directors noted fees had not gone up"

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