Audit fees and the salience of financial crisis: evidence from Slovenia

Maja Zaman Groff, Domen Trobec and Aleksander Igličar

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 2017, vol. 30, issue 1, 922-938

Abstract: The financial crisis that has recently affected the EU economies created a research setting that enabled the examination of the effect of the financial crisis outbreak on audit fees by studying the deviation of audit fees in the post-crisis period as compared to the pre-crisis period. Financial crisis represents a setting that is tightly related to the concepts of audit risk and liability, where higher audit fees can be expected to account for increased audit engagement. The article identifies the characteristics of audit fees in Slovenia, a country with a relatively short auditing tradition. Since the establishment of the first audit firms in Slovenia in 1992, the number has consistently increased and reached 50 in 2007. This trend resulted in decreasing concentration and increasing price competition in the audit market for the large segment of non-listed companies. The aim of the article is to investigate the effect of the financial crisis on audit fees in Slovenia. Using the fixed effects panel model, our study provides evidence that financial crisis negatively affected audit fees in Slovenia. It seems that the negative effects on audit fees (reduced demand, increased competition and cost reduction measures) outweigh the opposing positive effect on audit fees resulting from increased audit engagement.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2017.1311233

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