In this newsletter: Upcoming FAR Masterclasses, FAR practice note, FAR awards first tombstone for successful archival data delivery, FAR Vlog with Anna Gold, Introduction of new FAR employee Joris Roosen, New Vacancy: Management Assistant “Foundation for Auditing Research”.

Anna Gold is professor of auditing at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen. In this FAR Vlog she talks about the project that she is working on with Justin Leiby (Illinois USA) Joseph Brazel (North Carolina State University) and Tammie Schaefer (University of Missouri) about ‘How can audit committee support improve auditor’s applications of professional skepticism?’

We are looking for a proactive Management Assistant to support the (daily) management at the FAR.

Since September 2019, Joris has been working as a program coordinator for the Foundation for Auditing Research.

To acknowledge the people involved in gathering the data, FAR decided to award Tombstones for successful delivery of high-quality archival data.

FAR Practice Note by Jasmijn Bol, Isabella Grabner, Katlijn Haesebrouck and Mark Peecher on audit quality and audit culture as a determinant of audit quality.