Overall, the results reveal that reporting assets at fair value (on average) reduces audit fees, where a primary driver of higher audit fees observed under amortized cost appears to be impairments. However, any reduction in audit fees relative to amortized cost depends on several salient characteristics of the fair value reporting: the overall exposure to fair-valued assets; the complexity of the fair value measurement; and whether the fair values are recognized in the primary financial statements versus disclosed in the footnotes. Combined with previous findings that fair value reporting is priced and can reduce information asymmetries, these results suggest that fair value reporting can have benefits for both decision usefulness as well as contracting, fostering both objectives of financial reporting. These findings are potentially informative to standard setters in their ongoing deliberations about the role of fair value measurement in general-purpose financial statements. Section 2 presents the prior literature, setting, and hypothesis development. Section 3 presents the research design and primary analyses. Section 4 presents alternative settings to assess the hypotheses, and Section 5 reports sensitivity analyses. Section 6 concludes.