We are pleased to inform you that FAR will organize the first FAR Young Auditing Academic Brown Bag Seminar by James Zhang (University of Groningen) on April 16 at 3:30 pm (CET).

In this newsletter: Online FAR Masterclass by Prof. dr. Christian Hofmann on "Internal control quality and audit quality" on 18 May 2021, Online FAR International Conference "Auditing - The Human Factor (part 1)" on Monday 21 June 2021, FARview podcast #14 with Sebastian Kuhn, Recording online FAR Masterclass by Prof. dr. Ann Vanstraelen (5 March 2021) available

On Monday 21 June 2021 from 12.30 till 5.30 pm CET, FAR will be hosting another interesting online version of our International Conference. Registration will open soon!

Five years into its existence, FAR has matured to a full professional organization and reached its initial goals. Recently FAR secured its second five-year term (2021 - 2025) and is now expanding into its second phase. Given this steady growth of FAR's activities, FAR wishes to hire a Director of Operations.

In episode 14 of FARview, PhD student Sebastian Kuhn (LMU Munich) talks about their FAR-project on the relationship between internal control quality and audit quality, and how financial analysts can contribute to audit quality.

In this newsletter: • Reminder online FAR Masterclass by Prof. dr. Ann Vanstraelen and Prof. dr. Ganesh Krishnamoorthy on "The drivers and impact of audit committee involvement on audit quality", on 5 March 2021 • Recording of the online FAR Masterclass by Prof. dr. Jeroen Suijs (22 January 2021) available • FARview podcast #13 with Prof. dr. Jeroen Suijs • Summary online FAR Masterclass by Mark Peecher (4 December 2020) • Announcement Call for Research Projects 2021 • Upcoming events – save the dates!