Sustainability assurance research is still in its early stages and many important questions remain unanswered.
According to Ulrike Thuerheimer (assistant professor in accounting at the University of Amsterdam) directions for future research include:
• How do financial statement and sustainability audits interact?
• What team characteristics matter?
• How do materiality concepts differ between the financial statement and sustainability audits?
• How does limited assurance differ from reasonable assurance concerning sustainability?
• How to measure the quality of sustainability reporting (and assurance), possibly with the help of AI?
• What is the impact of (changes in) European regulation?
• What are cross-country differences in what parties are allowed to provide sustainability assurance?
• How will the market and auditors react to future enforcement cases?
Ulrike underlines the importance of FAR in helping to get access to relevant data.
This video is an addition to Ulrike’s FARview podcast that was published last July: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsTz2AFlpSc
FAR also recently published a booklet with 5 summaries of interesting articles on sustainability assurance. Here’s a link to the pdf of the publication:
https://lnkd.in/eUCQnv6c
There is also a Dutch version available:
https://lnkd.in/eMc64NVK
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Sustainability assurance research is still in its early stages and many important questions remain unanswered.
According to Ulrike Thuerheimer (assistant professor in accounting at the University of Amsterdam) directions for future research include:
• How do financial statement and sustainability audits interact?
• What team characteristics matter?
• How do materiality concepts differ between the financial statement and sustainability audits?
• How does limited assurance differ from reasonable assurance concerning sustainability?
• How to measure the quality of sustainability reporting (and assurance), possibly with the help of AI?
• What is the impact of (changes in) European regulation?
• What are cross-country differences in what parties are allowed to provide sustainability assurance?
• How will the market and auditors react to future enforcement cases?
Ulrike underlines the importance of FAR in helping to get access to relevant data.
This video is an addition to Ulrike’s FARview podcast that was published last July: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsTz2AFlpSc
FAR also recently published a booklet with 5 summaries of interesting articles on sustainability assurance. Here’s a link to the pdf of the publication:
https://lnkd.in/eUCQnv6c
There is also a Dutch version available:
https://lnkd.in/eMc64NVK
FARview #30: Christian Peters over sociale mismatch & e-mail- versus face-to-face contact
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FARview #30: Christian Peters over sociale mismatch & e-mail- versus face-to-face contact
Vragen van de controlerend accountant wekken soms wrevel op bij de cliënt. Vooral jongere accountants kunnen zich dan geïntimideerd voelen door controllers met meer ervaring.
Het gebruik van e-mails kan deze negatieve effecten verminderen, maar heeft ook nadelen: de accountant mist mogelijk signalen van misleiding, zal minder doorvragen en bouwt minder aan de persoonlijke relatie met de cliënt. Gebruik van e-mail blijkt wel een betere manier voor het opvragen van documentatie.
In deze korte podcast vertelt Christian Peters (Nanyang Technological University) over twee aan elkaar verwante artikelen van Bennett en Hatfield waarin deze onderzoeken worden beschreven. Een artikel gaat over het effect van een sociale mismatch tussen controlerend accountants en de controller bij de cliënt. Het tweede artikel gaat over het verschil tussen het gebruik van e-mail-communicatie versus face-to-face-communicatie op het professioneel-kritische gedrag van de accountant.
Peters vindt deze onderzoeken zeer relevant voor de accountantspraktijk.
Links naar de artikelen:
Bennett, G. B., & Hatfield, R. (2013). The effect of the social mismatch between staff auditors and client management on the collection of audit evidence. The Accounting Review, 88(1), 31-50. https://doi.org/10.2308/accr-50286
Bennett, G. B., & Hatfield, R. (2018). Staff auditors' proclivity for computer-mediated communication with clients and its effect on skeptical behavior. Accounting, Organizations and Society 68-69, 42-57 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2018.05.003
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Sustainability assurance research is still in its early stages and many important questions remain unanswered.
According to Ulrike Thuerheimer (assistant professor in accounting at the University of Amsterdam) directions for future research include:
• How do financial statement and sustainability audits interact?
• What team characteristics matter?
• How do materiality concepts differ between the financial statement and sustainability audits?
• How does limited assurance differ from reasonable assurance concerning sustainability?
• How to measure the quality of sustainability reporting (and assurance), possibly with the help of AI?
• What is the impact of (changes in) European regulation?
• What are cross-country differences in what parties are allowed to provide sustainability assurance?
• How will the market and auditors react to future enforcement cases?
Ulrike underlines the importance of FAR in helping to get access to relevant data.
This video is an addition to Ulrike’s FARview podcast that was published last July: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsTz2AFlpSc
FAR also recently published a booklet with 5 summaries of interesting articles on sustainability assurance. Here’s a link to the pdf of the publication:
https://lnkd.in/eUCQnv6c
There is also a Dutch version available:
https://lnkd.in/eMc64NVK