{"id":875,"date":"2019-07-26T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/arc\/blog\/blog\/frequency-kams\/"},"modified":"2019-07-26T17:13:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:13:11","slug":"frequency-kams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/arc\/blog\/2019\/07\/26\/frequency-kams\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequency of KAMs"},"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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auditanalytics.com\">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);\">Fiscal year 2017 marks the first full year that Key Audit Matter (KAM) disclosures were required in all EU member states.<span style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; bottom: 1ex;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.auditanalytics.com\/frequency-of-kams\/#fn1\" id=\"ref1\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(67, 102, 113); text-decoration-line: none;\">1<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;In this analysis, we look at KAM disclosures from the audit opinions of approximately 1,400 companies listed on European Stock Exchanges, focusing on select large-, mid-, and small- cap indexes for 2017 and 2018.<\/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);\">As shown in the graph below, the most common number of KAMs disclosed in both years was two (32% in 2018 and 29% in 2017).&nbsp; Although companies disclosing three KAMs were not far behind, with a frequency of 28% in 2018 and 27.5% in 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 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-873\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27028\" height=\"423\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" src=\"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/https__blog.auditanalytics.com_wp-content_uploads_2019_07_Graph-1.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.auditanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Graph-1.jpg 644w, https:\/\/blog.auditanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Graph-1-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.auditanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Graph-1-385x300.jpg 385w\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border: none; padding: 6px;\" width=\"542\" \/><\/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);\">Looking at these numbers from a higher level, 46% of companies had only one or two KAMs in 2018, an increase from 41% in 2017.&nbsp; Expanding even further, 88% of companies had between one and four KAMs in 2018, versus 87% in 2017.<\/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);\">With that being said, only about 12% of companies disclosed five or more KAMS. So, which companies are reporting the most KAMs?<\/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-874\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27065\" height=\"279\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" src=\"https:\/\/eaa-online.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/https__blog.auditanalytics.com_wp-content_uploads_2019_07_Table-1-Highest-number-of-KAMs-2.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.auditanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Table-1-Highest-number-of-KAMs-2.jpg 658w, https:\/\/blog.auditanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Table-1-Highest-number-of-KAMs-2-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.auditanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Table-1-Highest-number-of-KAMs-2-500x267.jpg 500w\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border: none; padding: 6px;\" width=\"524\" \/><\/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 2017, Rolls-Royce Holdings was the only company to report ten KAMS; that number decreased to eight in 2018, though the company remained at the top of the list in terms of number of KAMs.&nbsp; Conversely in 2018, John Wood Group was the only company to report nine KAMs, an increase from the seven they disclosed in 2017.<\/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);\">Interestingly, KPMG served as the auditor of the companies with the highest number of KAMs in both 2017 and 2018.<\/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);\">For more information on this analysis, please email&nbsp;<a aria-label=\"info@auditanalytics.com (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"mailto:info@auditanalytics.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(67, 102, 113); text-decoration-line: none;\" target=\"_blank\">info@auditanalytics.com<\/a>&nbsp;or call 508-476-7007.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" style=\"background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border: 0px; height: 1px; margin: 1.65em auto; max-width: 100px; color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\" \/>\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);\"><span id=\"fn1\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; bottom: 1ex;\">1. Under ISA 701 KAMs were required for fiscal years ending on or after December 15, 2016.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.auditanalytics.com\/frequency-of-kams\/#ref1\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(67, 102, 113); text-decoration-line: none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u21a9\" class=\"emoji\" draggable=\"false\" scale=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/12.0.0-1\/svg\/21a9.svg\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; display: inline !important; box-shadow: none !important; height: 1em !important; width: 1em !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; background: none !important; padding: 0px !important;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This analysis was originally posted by Audit Analytics. Fiscal year 2017 marks the first full year that Key Audit Matter (KAM) disclosures were required in all EU member states.1&nbsp;In this analysis, we look at KAM disclosures from the audit opinions of approximately 1,400 companies listed on European Stock Exchanges, focusing on select large-, mid-, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Frequency of KAMs - ARC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Frequency of KAMs - ARC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This analysis was originally posted by Audit Analytics. 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