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 #27: Tjibbe Bosman over de effecten van clawback-clausules voor controlerend accountants
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FARview #27: Tjibbe Bosman over de effecten van clawback-clausules voor controlerend accountants
In deze FARview-podcast vertelt UvA-promovendus Tjibbe Bosman over zijn paper ‘Skin in the Game: The Consequences of Audit Partner Clawback Provisions’.
Een van de maatregelen uit het rapport ‘In het publiek belang: maatregelen ter verbetering van de kwaliteit en onafhankelijkheid van de accountantscontrole’ van de Werkgroep Toekomst Accountantsberoep was het invoeren van een clawback-regeling voor partners bij OOB-accountantsorganisaties (maatregel 3.5).
De meeste accountantsorganisaties die OOB’s controleren hebben inmiddels zo’n regeling ingevoerd voor hun equity partners. De aanname is dat dit leidt tot hogere controlekwaliteit.
Bosman vertelt in deze podcast over de achtergrond van de clawback-maatregel en wat de consequenties zijn van die maatregel.
Uit de onderzoeksresultaten, gebaseerd op 77 procent van de wettelijke Nederlandse controles tussen 2010 en 2019, blijkt dat partner-clawback-clausules ertoe leiden dat partners minder (risicovolle) controlecliënten accepteren. Ook stijgt het inkomen van de partners, ter compensatie van het clawback-risico. Bovendien verstrekken partners minder goedkeurende controleverklaringen. Echter, de clawback-maatregel leidt niet tot het verminderen van de kans op fundamenteel foutherstel (het intrekken van de controleverklaring), tot het verminderen van winststuring of tot betere rapportage op het gebied van continuïteit.
De bevindingen stemmen tot nadenken over de vraag of clawbacks een efficiënte oplossing zijn voor het verbeteren van controlekwaliteit.
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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