In een scherpzinnig interview pleit emeritus hoogleraar Willem Buijink voor meer ruimte voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek binnen de accountancysector. Volgens Buijink wordt het debat te vaak gedomineerd door retoriek in plaats van feiten. Hij roept op tot betere benutting van academisch onderzoek door beleidsmakers en toezichthouders.
Buijink wijst op de risico’s van marktconcentratie bij de Big Four en benadrukt het belang van samenwerking tussen wetenschap en praktijk. Zijn boodschap is helder: “Laten we stoppen met overreguleren op basis van incidenten en beginnen met luisteren naar wat onderzoek ons écht vertelt.”
Author
Prof. dr. Willem Buijink
Academic board member for FAR, Willem Buijink, emeritus, taught financial and management accounting and conducts research in financial accounting, tax accounting and auditing. He was Vice Dean Education of TiSEM until the end of 2009. Prior to that he was Vice Dean Research of TiSEM. He chaired the TiSEM Department of Accountancy from 2001 to 2005. Prior to coming to Tilburg, in 2001, Professor Buijink was Professor of Accounting at Maastricht University where he chaired the Department of Accounting and Finance. He is co-founder of the MARC. Professor Buijink started his academic career at the University of Antwerp. His current research interests include the economics of financial accounting, financial accounting regulation and the historical development of financial accounting. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Dutch language business economics academic journal MAB. He chaired the first Standing Scientific Committee of the European Accounting Association from 2005 to 2007. From October 1, 2013, he was for a year the EIASM Academic Director, in Brussels. Since April 2015 he is Professor of Accounting (part-time) at the Dutch Open University in Heerlen.