Jeroen Bellinga

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Jeroen Bellinga is Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers Accountants N.V. in Groningen, where he focuses on audit innovation and the integration of technology in assurance services. He holds the professional qualifications of Registeraccountant (RA) and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA). Before becoming Senior Manager, Jeroen served as Manager Financial Services at PwC, specializing in audits for financial institutions and advisory projects. His work includes developing and implementing robotic process automation and data analytics solutions to improve audit efficiency and reliability.Jeroen combines extensive experience in statutory audits with a strong interest in digital transformation, regularly contributing to projects that bridge practice and technology. He earned his degree in accountancy from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and continues to collaborate with professional bodies on advancing audit methodologies.

Robotic Process Automation for the Extraction of Audit Information

Large audit firms typically ‘‘offshore’’ simple and repetitive audit tasks such as reconciliations to shared service centers. Offshoring however comes at the expense of coordination costs, delays in the process, and challenges regarding the liability risk to the auditor. This paper presents an open-source algorithm to extract data from (draft) annual reports (PDF files) using Python to automate, rather than outsource, the data extraction for reconciliations. The algorithm resulted in a significant time saving for the audit of a large Dutch asset management firm. Researchers apply the algorithm to minimize hand-collection of financial statement data. Data Availability: The algorithm this paper presents is open-source and publicly available. It was a joint project with Jeroen Bellinga, Seyit Hocuk, Wim Janssen and Alaa Khzam. Wim Janssen and Alaa Khzam developed the programming code. Article AAA

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