Merel van der Kuip

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Merel van der Kuip holds an MSc in Accounting from Nyenrode Business University and has contributed to research projects on audit quality and financial reporting at the Foundation for Auditing Research. Her work focuses on statutory audits, auditor reporting behavior, and transparency in financial statements. She has co-authored studies examining going concern opinions and bankruptcy-related reporting practices in the Netherlands.

The team studied the reporting behavior of Dutch organizations subject to statutory audit in the three years prior to their bankruptcy. They found that only 12 percent of companies file timely audited financial statements or an exemption in the year prior to bankruptcy, 56 percent (64) in year two (three) before the bankruptcy. Second, management discloses discontinuity risks in just 29 percent of the pre-bankruptcy filing. And third, only 11 percent of organizations have a filed audit opinion for the fiscal year prior to bankruptcy. However, for the majority (63 percent or 39 instances out of 62) of audit opinions issued for the fiscal year before the insolvency, the auditor did not include a material uncertainty relating to going concern (GCO) in its audit opinion and therefore constitute a type-II GCO error (error of omission). They estimate the total GCO type-II (I) error rate at 0.03 (99.26) percent of audit opinions issued.
Leveranciers en andere belanghebbenden rekenen erop dat bedrijven hun jaarrekeningen deponeren bij de Kamer van Koophandel. Vele ondernemingen laten deponering achterwege waardoor het onduidelijk is hoe verstandig het is met de betrokken bedrijven zaken te doen.   Accountancy van Morgen
According to the AFM Monitor, approximately 19,333 statutory audit opinions were issued in the Netherlands in 2019. However, which organizations received these opinions for which reports, and whether this information is publicly available, has not yet been systematically mapped. At the same time, there is a growing need for information about audit quality for the market as a whole. For financial statement users, policymakers, and other stakeholders, it is not always clear which audits fall under the Audit Firms Supervision Act (Wta) and thus under AFM oversight. In this descriptive article, we estimate the number of Wta audits and whether these are publicly accessible. Of all statutory audits, 18,311 opinions (95%) are publicly available through various sources, such as the Chamber of Commerce.
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