Financial Audit Procedures Employed in Sustainability Assurance

Abstract

Assurance on sustainability reports is a new concept in Romania and this paper aims to enlarge the vision upon the benefits which can be obtained through involving financial auditors in providing assurance services on non-financial reports issued by companies. Current developments related to non-financial reporting in the European Union indicate that more and more EU-based companies will soon be confronted with more detailed requirements related to sustainability reporting and stricter audit requirements, such as the mandatory assurance of non-financial reports. Our paper explains and illustrates from a practical perspective the audit procedures performed and the content of assurance reports issued by financial auditors upon auditing non-financial reports.

Keywords

• sustainability assurance
• financial auditors
• assurance reports
• non-financial reporting