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
How can auditing practice and academia fruitfully work together?
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1 year ago
How can auditing practice and academia fruitfully work together?
In this short podcast/video, Therese Grohnert (Maastricht University) and Petra Tijmstra (NBA and PwC) talk about how they have experienced their joint FAR research project. The project can be viewed as a best practice of a symbiotic cooperation between practice and academia with mutual benefits. Therese and Petra discuss the conditions, yields, success factors and take-aways of their collaboration. Bottom line: ‘Don’t be afraid, just give it a try!’
The related video can also be viewed here: https://youtu.be/LTzqTJKxINE
Do you want to see more? Petra and Therese also presented their work at the 2023 FAR annual conference. Their presentation can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/live/-8qMiz3W4Xs?feature=share&t=6225
FARview
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