#Trend of auditors fee's increment?

On 30 Oct 2023, [%Zmlm%] announced that its external auditor from PWC voluntarily resigned due to disagreement over the auditors' fee. 

Today, [%yNml%] announced that its external auditors are resigning over the disagreement on the fee too. 

Compared to PTARAS, whose auditor resign only after its AR is released, and has its external auditor reappointed last Friday, PJBUMI is consider riskier because its external auditor resigned amid the rush to meet the annual report's submission deadline. On today too, the company has announced a change of the financial year end to obtain another 6 months time to prepare the annual report.

Is it the trend that the auditors' fee is increasing within the accounting and auditing industry nowadays? Or are there more-to-be-seen behind this neutral reason for auditors' resignation? 

On a side note, are there any legal differences between "retirement" and "resignation" of auditors, as can see in the photos below?

#Trend of auditors fee's increment?

On 30 Oct 2023, $KLSE-PTARAS announced that its external auditor from PWC voluntarily resigned due to disagreement over the auditors' fee. 

Today, $KLSE-PJBUMI announced that its external auditors are resigning over the disagreement on the fee too. 

Compared to PTARAS, whose auditor resign only after its AR is released, and has its external auditor reappointed last Friday, PJBUMI is consider riskier because its external auditor resigned amid the rush to meet the annual report's submission deadline. On today too, the company has announced a change of the financial year end to obtain another 6 months time to prepare the annual report.

Is it the trend that the auditors' fee is increasing within the accounting and auditing industry nowadays? Or are there more-to-be-seen behind this neutral reason for auditors' resignation? 

On a side note, are there any legal differences between "retirement" and "resignation" of auditors, as can see in the photos below?