De belangrijkste resultaten van de Audit Fee Survey:

• For public companies, the hourly audit fee rate averaged at $218. This was $186 for non-accelerated filers and $220 for the large accelerated filers. The lowest hourly rate was $110 and the highest hourly rate was $400, both reported by large accelerated filers.
• For private companies, the hourly audit fee rate averaged $185. This was $159 for the smallest companies to $243 for companies with annual revenues of $1 billion to $4.9 billion.
• Publicly-held companies paid on average $4.8 million in total audit fees for fiscal years ending in 2009. Public company respondents reported their own organisation’s audit fees had decreased from the prior year. 
• Private companies reported their audit fees averaged at $291,200, which was a similar rate as the previous fiscal year. 
• In terms of man hours, public company audits averaged 21,458 hours in 2009, while private company audits averaged 2,606 hours.

FEI Survey: Companies Report Signs of Stabilization With 2009 Auditing Process