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?’

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

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

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.

In June 2019, the fourth conference of the Foundation for Auditing Research (FAR) has been held. The theme of the conference was ‘Evidence informed policy making for the future of the auditing profession’. Professor Willem Buijink (Open Universiteit and FAR Academic Board member) chaired nine plenary sessions, spread over two days. In this article (published on the MAB website), the focus is on the keynote speeches by Robert Knechel (University of Florida and Academic Board Member of FAR) and Miguel Minutti-Meza (University of Miami) and on the panel discussion regarding the theme of the conference.