{"id":813,"date":"2019-05-29T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T12:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/arc\/blog\/blog\/auditor-changes-and-audit-fees-italy\/"},"modified":"2019-05-29T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T12:22:07","slug":"auditor-changes-and-audit-fees-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/arc\/blog\/2019\/05\/29\/auditor-changes-and-audit-fees-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Auditor Changes and Audit Fees in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);\">This analysis was originally posted by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.auditanalytics.com\/auditor-changes-and-audit-fees-in-italy\/\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: top; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(255, 104, 13); transition: color 0.4s ease 0s, background-color 0.4s ease 0s; outline: none !important;\">Audit Analytics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);\">The transposition of the European Audit Reform was finalized in Italy with the adoption of the Legislative Decree n. 135 of July 17, 2016 with the new rules effective on August 5, 2016. Mandatory firm rotation is required after nine years for auditing companies and seven years for individual statutory auditors. As shown in the table below, seven of the eleven auditor changes were replacing an auditor with a tenure of nine years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"display: table; clear: both; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-810\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25823\" src=\"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/https__blog.auditanalytics.com_wp-content_uploads_2019_04_Table-1-Auditor-Changes-1.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border: none; padding: 6px;\" width=\"688\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/https__blog.auditanalytics.com_wp-content_uploads_2019_04_Table-1-Auditor-Changes-1.jpg 688w, https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/https__blog.auditanalytics.com_wp-content_uploads_2019_04_Table-1-Auditor-Changes-1-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);\">PwC gained six clients and lost one. EY gained one client and lost five. KPMG broke even with one gain and one loss, and Deloitte gained three clients and lost four.<\/p>\n<p>\tOn average for companies that changed their auditor, audit + audit related fees decreased by 5% from 2016 to 2017.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"display: table; clear: both; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-811\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25886\" src=\"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/https__blog.auditanalytics.com_wp-content_uploads_2019_04_Table-2-Audit-and-Audit-Related-Fees-2.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border: none; padding: 6px;\" width=\"714\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/https__blog.auditanalytics.com_wp-content_uploads_2019_04_Table-2-Audit-and-Audit-Related-Fees-2.jpg 714w, https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/https__blog.auditanalytics.com_wp-content_uploads_2019_04_Table-2-Audit-and-Audit-Related-Fees-2-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);\">In the table above, seven of the eleven companies saw a decrease in audit + audit related fees by an average of 43% between 2016 and 2017, ranging between a 26% and 56% decrease. The four companies that saw their fees increase did so by an average of 61%, ranging between a 7% and 112% increase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);\">Now to compare these averages with the companies that did&nbsp;<strong style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">not&nbsp;<\/strong>change their auditors between 2016 and 2017. Of the 89 companies without an auditor change, 61 saw an increase of fees by 17.7%, and 23 saw a decrease of fees by 17.6%. Three companies saw no change to their fees. Of note, two companies were not included in the analysis since they were newly listed on the Indices in 2017 (Carel Industries SpA [CRL] and Gima TT SpA [GIMA]).<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\" style=\"display: table; clear: both; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-812\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25880\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/https__blog.auditanalytics.com_wp-content_uploads_2019_04_Table-3-4.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border: none; padding: 6px;\" width=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/https__blog.auditanalytics.com_wp-content_uploads_2019_04_Table-3-4.jpg 512w, https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/https__blog.auditanalytics.com_wp-content_uploads_2019_04_Table-3-4-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);\">On average, the companies that changed their auditor saw an overall&nbsp;<strong style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">decrease<\/strong>&nbsp;of 5% for audit + audit related fees and an&nbsp;<strong style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">increase<\/strong>&nbsp;of 37% for non-audit fees. Companies with the same auditor saw an&nbsp;<strong style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">increase<\/strong>&nbsp;of 8% for audit + audit related fees and an&nbsp;<strong style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">increase<\/strong>&nbsp;of 37% for non-audit fees. In total, fees increased by 13.8% for those companies that switched auditor and 15.2% for those that did not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);\"><em>For more information on this analysis, please contact us at info@auditanalytics.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This analysis was originally posted by&nbsp;Audit Analytics. 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. 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