Accounting, Auditing & Control

Wilgenhaag

Introduction

Our mission

Nyenrode's Center for Accounting, Auditing & Control focuses on the reliability of (non-) financial management and accountability information aimed at internal and external stakeholders.

Correct, current and reliable information is essential for the daily operations and strategic direction of any organization, and the role of IT systems and applications such as Data Analytics is pivotal.

Correct, current and reliable information is also essential for good governance. Through the various specializations within our center we look at this from different perspectives and roles – for instance from the controller or the accountant's.

Education

Our activities

Our education programs aim to build our students into 'robust professionals'. We facilitate this by offering room for critical reflection and a focus on professional judgement and ethics.

Our education programs integrates personal and professional skills; training our students and participants to continuously act in the common interest and preparing them for the ever-changing expectations from stakeholders in a changeable environment.

The Center for Accounting, Auditing & Control is responsible for two of the three core expertise of both the accountancy and controller programs. We provide a significant contribution to the following programs:

  • Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
  • Master of Science in Accountancy
  • Post-Master RA (including the Custom Made track)
  • Master of Science in Management
  • Master of Science in Controlling
  • Executive Master in Finance & Control
  • Doctoral Program
  • Foundations of Management
  • Leadership Development Program

Additionally, we train experienced professionals through our Executive Educations programs, sharing our expertise in masterclasses, the New Board Program and the Supervisory Board Cycle, amongst others.

Related programs

  • (Pre-) Master of Science in Management | Full-time

    Start date: August 2025
    Language:
    • English
    Location:
    • Amsterdam
    • Breukelen

    The Full-time Master of Science in Management lasts 16 months (including pre-master), has three tracks and ensures you are ready for the global labor market.

    Students sitting outdoors looking into the camera

  • PhD Program (part-time)

    Start date: 1 september 2025
    Language:
    • English
    Location:
    • Breukelen

    Obtain your PhD degree at Nyenrode Business Universiteit. Develop your academic, research and personal effectiveness skills. Focus on both academic rigor and practical and societal impact.

  • English (Pre-) Master of Science in Accountancy | Part-time

    Start date: May 2025
    Language:
    • English
    Location:
    • Amsterdam

    Learn modern accountancy practices and elevate your career with Nyenrode.

    Nyenrode part-time English (Pre-) Master in Accountancy in Amsterdam

Research

Our research

The Center for Accounting, Auditing & Control conducts research in the following fields:

  • Auditing
  • Information and Management Accounting Control Systems
  • Corporate Governance

We conduct our research in cooperation with (international) professionals in the field. Faculty members regularly present their findings at international research conferences and seminars, and publish in academic journals.

You can find their (inter) national publications in the academic bios on the faculty members' profile pages.

Opinion

Related news

  • How Business Schools should harness their power to make change

    Type: Opinion
    Publication date: 9/19/2022

    We often underestimate how much power we hold in terms of being able to make a difference. We are all capable of contributing to bettering the world in one form or another.

    Barbara Majoor nieuwsbericht

  • The future of the accountancy sector: a call to break the vicious circle

    Type: Research
    Publication date: 12/3/2021

    The current working methods of accountancy firms continue to remain unchanged. This vicious circle needs to be broken in order to prevent the sector from grinding to a halt as a result of more and more checks and controls.

  • Accounting questions in the Circular Economy

    Type: Research
    Publication date: 1/14/2020

    A white paper launched by a new coalition for circular accounting, demonstrates how to modify and rethink current financing and reporting practices for the circular economy.

  • Controllers, prepare for Artificial Intelligence!

    Type: About Nyenrode
    Publication date: 8/29/2019

    According to Prof. Dr. Jan Bots, it's only a matter of time before big data and digitization become an integral part of the controlling profession. He delivered his retirement speech on Thursday August 29, 2019.

Partners

Partners

Foundation for Auditing Research

Nyenrode Business Universiteit is an active contributor to the Dutch Foundation for Auditing Research, an autonomous institute for academic research into the drivers of audit quality. We also host the annual International FAR Conference and a number of masterclasses.

Cooperation with auditing firms

The center works closely with the auditing firms employing our students to collect data for research classes and thesis tracks. This cooperation results in vast databases for education and research purposes.

Cooperation with NBA Young Profs

NBA Young Profs (link in Dutch) is the network of Dutch young accountants/auditors and trainees. The Center for Accounting, Auditing & Control works with them to collect data for collective research, publish white papers and conduct scientific research. This collaboration results in unique data to contribute to the public debate, education and research.


Team

Our people

Center director

Prof. dr. Cokky Hilhorst

Job title Professor
Phone number :  +31 346 295 406
Cokky Hilhorst