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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Scientific validation of audit methodology in accountancy needed

    Type: Research
    Publication date: 11/28/2018

    “The field of Auditing & Assurance is about people and trust”, says Prof. Dr. Joost van Buuren. However, according to Van Buuren, the field has not been innovative enough in recent years and is failing to adequately fulfill users’ wishes. Van Buuren therefore calls upon the sector to develop a new active approach: one in which innovation is aimed at meeting users’ needs and boosting their trust in the accountant through scientific validation of audit methodology. Van Buuren: “Accountants must start thinking differently and seize opportunities with an open mind in order to increase the relevance of the accounting position.”

  • International importance of Data Science on the rise

    Type: Research
    Publication date: 7/2/2018

    Prof. Ruud Wetzels has been appointed as a professor at Nyenrode Business Universiteit as of 1 July to hold the chair in Data Science. In this chair, Wetzels will be conducting research focused on applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), mathematics and statistics in the business world.

  • Professional skepticism of young accountants under pressure

    Type: Research
    Publication date: 5/16/2018

    Young professionals within the accountancy sector experience high levels of work pressure, which compromises their professional skepticism and thus the quality of their work.

  • Quality bonuses have a counterproductive effect for majority of auditors

    Type: Research
    Publication date: 12/6/2017

    Measures regarding compensation incentives for auditors have a different effect on their judgment and decision-making. This effect depends on factors such as various personality traits. This is one of the conclusions reached by Herman van Brenk in his dissertation titled “Compensation Incentives and Personality Traits: Three studies on their Joint Effects on Auditor Judgment and Decision Making”, for which he received his doctorate from Nyenrode Business Universiteit on Wednesday 6th of December.

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