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A person within an organisation, to whom employees can report confidential matters, such as malpractice and violations of the integrity standards. The confidential adviser can also address and prevent undesirable behaviour such as bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace. Integrity, anonymity (if desired) and confidentiality are key elements of…

The organisation chooses to change a previously selected accounting policy. One or more accounting principles for measuring assets and liabilities and determining the result differ from those used in the preparation of prior annual accounts. The Dutch Accounting Standard Board has further elaborated on (the processing approach for) changes to…

Acting within the framework of laws and regulations with inventive use of professional expertise. A characteristic of an organisation with high business integrity is that it acts to prevent conflicts of interest, corruption, fraud, violations of the law and/or other acts that are socially undesirable.…

A chartered accountant (RA) or an accounting consultant (AA). The term accountant is also used to refer to an accounting firm. In these recommendations, the term accountant refers to the accountant who audits the organisation’s annual accounts, or issues a compilation report in connection with them. An accountant may be…