The Clean Energy regulator used its Annual Audit and Assurance Workshops held earlier this year to emphasise the importance of audit to the agency. This included having two members of the regulator Annie T. Brown and Michael D'Ascenzo as keynote speakers to 'reinforce the point that the Clean Energy Regulator takes its audit functions very seriously'.
IGAP's Prof. Nonna Martinov-Bennie, who also sits on the Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AUASB), was also a keynote speaker.
Prof. Nonna Martinov-Bennie presented on the key audit concept of 'professional scepticism'. The presentation was based on in-depth interviews with senior audit practitioners, and covered a number of aspects of professional scepticism and their practical implications. Prof Martinov-Bennie also highlighted the apparently conflicting views of audit scepticism as a relatively fixed character trait, but also a 'skill' that can be trained overtime.
The presentation introduced an 'Aristotelian' idea of professional scepticism developed in collaboration with A/Prof Dyball and Dr Dale Tweedie which shows how these seemingly contradictory elements of audit scepticism might be resolved. Far from being simply 'academic', Prof. Martinov-Bennie outlined important practical implications of understanding audit scepticism in this way.
Prof. Martinov-Bennie and A/Prof Dyball also presented their research findings at the ICAA academic leadership series. Slides of this presentation are available here.
For more information on this research and analysis, contact: nonna.martinov-bennie@mq.edu.au
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