SEC Audit Fees API — Structured Data from Proxy Statements

Access structured audit fee data extracted from SEC proxy statements (DEF 14A) via API. Track audit, audit-related, tax, and all other fees by company. Start free.

SEC Audit Fees API

Every public company discloses fees paid to its external auditor in its annual proxy statement (DEF 14A). Datastream extracts and structures these disclosures — audit fees, audit-related fees, tax fees, and all other fees — so you can analyze auditor economics, independence risks, and cost trends programmatically.

Capabilities

Four fee categories

Audit fees, audit-related fees, tax fees, and all other fees extracted and categorized from proxy statements.

Auditor identification

Auditing firm name and PCAOB ID included with every record for easy cross-referencing.

Historical trends

Track how audit fees change over time for a company — or compare fees across an entire industry.

Independence analysis

Compare non-audit fees to audit fees to flag potential auditor independence concerns.

Quick start

Get Microsoft’s audit fees from the latest proxy:

curl -H "x-api-key: $OMNI_DATASTREAM_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.secapi.ai/v1/companies/audit-fees?ticker=MSFT&limit=1"

{
  "ticker": "MSFT",
  "company_name": "Microsoft Corporation",
  "fiscal_year": 2024,
  "auditor": "Deloitte & Touche LLP",
  "audit_fees": 42500000,
  "audit_related_fees": 2100000,
  "tax_fees": 8300000,
  "all_other_fees": 500000,
  "total_fees": 53400000,
  "non_audit_ratio": 0.204
}

Compare audit fees across a sector:

curl -H "x-api-key: $OMNI_DATASTREAM_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.secapi.ai/v1/companies/audit-fees?sic=7372&limit=20&sort=total_fees:desc"

Use cases

Auditor independence monitoring

PCAOB rules limit non-audit services. Track the ratio of non-audit fees to total fees to flag potential independence issues before they become problems.

Audit fee benchmarking

Compare audit fees across peers in the same industry and of similar size to identify outliers — either underinvestment in auditing or excessive fees.

Auditor change detection

Monitor when companies switch auditors by tracking changes in the auditor field year over year. Auditor changes can signal accounting issues.

Academic research

Study the relationship between audit fees, audit quality, restatement risk, and other corporate governance factors across the full SEC universe.

API endpoints

Endpoint	Description
GET /v1/companies/audit-fees	Audit fee data by company
GET /v1/companies/audit-fees/history	Historical audit fees over time

Why Datastream for audit fee data

Feature	Datastream	Raw EDGAR	Audit Analytics	Manual
Structured JSON API	Yes	No (HTML)	Yes	N/A
All four fee categories	Yes	Yes (unstructured)	Yes	Depends
Auditor identification	Yes	Yes (unstructured)	Yes	Manual
REST API	Yes	No	Partial	No
Historical coverage	2004+	2004+	2000+	Per-project
Pricing	Pay-as-you-go	Free (raw)	$$$	Labor cost

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