When reporting KAMs, real effects could arise ifauditors anticipate that certain accounting matters will be disclosed as a KAM while making judgments about financial statement assertions.Thus, this additional disclosure can influence auditors' JDM of the respective financial matters to be reported as a KAM. The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB, 2015b, p. 2) itself states that the new auditor reporting model should lead to a “renewed focus of the auditor on matters to be communicated in the auditor's report, which could indirectly result in an increase in professional skepticism.”