In 1998, the German legislator obliged public limited companies to install a system to detect risks endangering corporate going concern at an early stage. Moreover, he required the auditor of annual financial statements to audit this risk monitoring system. This task is an international novelty...

This paper adopts and reviews discretionary disclosure and cheap talk models to analyze risk reporting incentives and their relation to regulation. Given its inherent discretion, risk reporting depends on disclosure incentives. To assess these incentives the analytical models consider risk...