prof. dr. Kees Camfferman, RA

Full Professor, School of Business and Economics, Accounting

Full Professor, Amsterdam Business Research Institute

Personal information

I am professor of Financial Accounting at the School of Business and Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. This is also the university where I did my PhD (1996). Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is a university with a strong track record in accounting, both in terms of academic research and relations with practice. It has been an excellent vantage point for me to stay engaged with the many developments in the world of corporate reporting in recent decades, in the Netherlands and internationally. It has been and still is a privilege to be a member of the SBE School of Accounting.

Research

Most of my research is concerned with the development of financial reporting by listed companies from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Specific themes and current projects include:

Accounting standard setting, in particular by the IASC and the IASB, and the relationship between IFRS and local regulatory frameworks
Financial reporting and company law
Voluntary disclosure
Theodore Limperg (1879-1961), leading Dutch auditor and theoretician of business economics
The auditing profession in the Netherlands and Europe

Teaching

Accounting I (BSc Economics and Business Economics; BSc Bedrijfskunde)

Advanced Financial Reporting (MSc Accounting and Control)

Field Work Elective (MSc Accounting and Control)

Thesis/Portfolio supervision

Programme Director MSc Accounting and Control

Ancillary activities

Protestantse Gemeente Amstelveen-Buitenveldert | Amstelveen | Bestuurder | 2015-01-11 - present
Raad voor de Jaarverslaggeving | Amsterdam | Lid | 2021-02-18 - present

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