FD Artikel: Black box van de accountants gaat eindelijk open
Het is hun ‘lovebaby’. Vijftien jaar lang hebben de Amsterdamse hoogleraar Jan Bouwens en Nyenrode-onderzoeker Olof Bik gelobbyd voor een organisatie die wetenschappelijk onderzoek doet naar de prangende vragen rond accountancy. Inmiddels is het zover. In het najaar van 2015 is de Foundation for Audit Research, kortweg FAR, geboren, en nu, anderhalf jaar later, staan de eerste onderzoeksteams op het punt om aan de slag te gaan.
Authors
Academic board member and managing director FAR.
Jan Bouwens is full professor of accounting at the University of Amsterdam. His previous appointment was at the Cambridge Judge Business School and Tilburg University, where he was head of the accounting department for 7 years. He was visiting professor at Harvard business school in 2013/2014.
His teaching experience extends from bachelor programs to Ph.D. programs in business economics. During the academic year 2013-2014 he taught accounting in the MBA program at Harvard Business, School, 2017/2018 and in the Cambridge MBA programs. He now teaches Management accounting and control in the masters of accounting of the University of Cambridge and at The University of Amsterdam.
In his research Jan focuses on motivating employees with targets and selecting appropriate performance measures. He publishes in the top accounting journals (e.g., JAE, JAR, management science, AOS, TAR, CAR). He writes editorials for national news papers (e.g, Finacial Times, Financieele Dagblad)
Olof Bik is professor of Auditing & Assurance at the University of Groningen. In his research he takes a special interest in the study of culture, leadership, and behavior in the realm of the auditing and assurance profession, firms, and teams. Since its inception in 2015 until 2022, Bik was one of two managing directors and academic member of the Board of the Foundation for Auditing Research. He worked in the audit practice of PwC for 18 years, since 2002 always in combination with a university appointment (Groningen), and joined academia in full since 2012 (Nyenrode).