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 Pitch: Gaan lange werkweken ten koste van controlekwaliteit?
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FARview Pitch: Gaan lange werkweken ten koste van controlekwaliteit?
Gaan lange werkweken ten koste van de kwaliteit van de accountantscontrole? Het antwoord is helaas: ‘ja’.
Tjibbe Bosman (promovendus Universiteit van Amsterdam en verbonden aan de Foundation for Auditing Research) bespreekt in deze pitch een artikel van Christensen, Newton en Wilkins: ‘How do team workloads and team staffing affect the audit? Archival evidence from U.S. audits.’
De onderzoekers vinden dat werkweken van 55 uur en langer schadelijk zijn voor de kwaliteit van de accountantscontrole. Zij vinden, onder andere, ook dat continuïteit binnen het controleteam in opeenvolgende jaren kwaliteitsverhogend werkt. Deze effecten gelden met name voor assistenten en seniors.
Het is dus belangrijk voor accountants, toezichthouders en andere belanghebbenden om oog te hebben voor de werkdruk van accountants en de continuïteit binnen de teams.
Het artikel is gepubliceerd in Accounting, Organizations and Society (Volume 92, July 2021)
Link naar het artikel: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2021.101225
Ook beschikbaar via SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3418533
Deze pitch is ook te beluisteren/bekijken via Youtube: https://youtu.be/IoKw1kuq7VY
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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
