FARview with Christian Peters (podcast in Dutch)

Key takeaways from the conversation include:

• Auditors under time constraints are more likely to leave difficult tasks behind than easy ones. This has potentially negative consequences.
• The learning of auditors is going to move even more from university to practice.
• Face-to-face contact leads to greater learning effects than ‘digital’ communication.
• Process feedback is more effective than “on the man” feedback.

Christian Peters was interested in numbers from a young age. He was already trading on the stock market at the age of 12! An economic study was the obvious choice. Through a side job as assistant to a financial director, auditing was eventually preferred. After graduating, his thesis supervisor Bart Dierynck asked him if he would be interested in a PhD program in Tilburg, which is co-sponsored by FAR. The rest is history: Christian has been working hard for a year now. There are now two articles of his on the Social Science Research Network, where scientists share their ‘work in progress’ with interested parties (www.ssrn.com). Tjibbe Bosman of the FAR talked to this enthusiastic young researcher.