Financial audit

In our annual financial audit, we bring together three themes: insight, reputation and smarter ways of working. Our auditors provide assurance through thorough procedures, but also through fresh perspectives. These insights help executives, supervisory boards and other stakeholders look beyond the figures.

We do this by communicating clearly throughout the audit and by helping organisations make their relevance visible. The insights may relate to the financial statements, but also to strategy, value drivers and the associated risks.

We also consider current developments, such as cloud-based operations and cybersecurity.

In this way, the audit becomes more than a check. It becomes an opportunity to create insight, strengthen reputation and work more intelligently.

Our insights only remain credible as long as our reputation remains unchallenged. Reputation is a long-term concern and is closely associated with the conduct of our organisation. The starting point for our concerns about reputation is therefore quality. The provision of qualitatively high-grade services means more to us than simply excelling in terms of specialised knowledge and compliance with the code of ethics and rules of the profession. It also involves the manner in which we provide added value for our clients and satisfy the needs of participation in the community. We accomplish this by being involved and, when appropriate, inspiring others to build trust in organisations and the community at large.

Insight and reputation on their own are not enough. We are constantly seeking new ways to be smarter in what we do. We can work more effectively by building increased safeguards into the audit procedure where necessary, as well as simplifying and standardising wherever possible. We can also examine data in a more informed manner and structure audit files more effectively by making the best possible use of technology. We call this our "Way of Working".

It is an attitude that promotes a culture in which professionals display their pride in the accounting profession, are unsatisfied with the "status quo", continue to seek improvements in our audit procedure and demonstrate the importance of qualitatively high-grade audits to clients.