An in-depth opinion piece written by our own committee member Murat Erdinç, as he looks into the auditing profession and why society relies on auditors to answer the tough questions about businesses.

Latest overview of Dutch listed companies and their external accountant.

In this article Martijn Sprengers, information security advisor at KPMG IT Advisory, talks about the developments of cyber crime. He enlightens us with his view on the risk of cyber crime and furthermore he explains different cyber security methods.

In this article Inez Verwey talks about the differences between public auditors and forensic accountants in their ability to identify fraud risks and to plan effective procedures to mitigate fraud risks. According to her, especially in fraud detection an out of the box mentality is crucial as successful fraudsters are ‘top of the bill” in being creative thinking.

In this article Gerard Bottemanne and Marcel Wiedenbrugge talk about UBL standard as a new device for electronic invoicing. Nowadays more and more invoices are exchanged electronically. Currently PDF is undisputedly the most widely used format for the exchange (by email) of invoices as an attachment. Whether or not combined with scanning and recognizing of booking documents, electronically received invoices are processed automatically in the accounts as a booking proposal. The role of PDF, however, is increasingly replaced by UBL (Universal Business Language).