Audit Callens Vandelanotte

Considering an acquisition, restructure or merger? Do banks, public authorities, investors or other partners first want to be reassured with up-to-date figures or certified annual accounts prior to working with, or financing your company? Then you have certainly come to the right place! Callens Vandelanotte audits and advises more than 500 companies, including major Belgian SMEs and the Belgian subsidiaries of international groups. Public and non-profit sectors, such as NPOs, schools, monastic communities, residential care centres and hospitals, also regularly draw on our considerable expertise. We know just how important reliable information is, and will gladly provide support in the completion of your audit assignments. Indeed, our in-depth knowledge of your company or organisation enables us to perform the role of company auditor as a quality, independent partner. Contact us for assurance assignments, specific tasks, statutory obligations and ERDF audits. 

Assurance

Callens Vandelanotte offers a comprehensive range of assurance services that furnish you with the necessary certainty about the reliability of (historical) financial and non-financial information. This primarily concerns supervisory director mandates and other potential attestation assignments. Our team of specialists deliver a customised written audit report per assignment, which corresponds directly to the reference framework and scope of the appointed work. In addition to assurance assignments, we also provide bespoke qualitative and multidisciplinary advice.

Legal obligations

The Belgian Company Code imposes audits for significant events, such as restructures, start-ups or capital increases due to contribution in kind, quasi-contributions, mergers, divisions and liquidations. Your Vandelanotte company auditor meticulously prepares the necessary reports in the aforementioned scenarios and thinks along with you regarding the broader framework of statutory assignments. We additionally boast the requisite knowledge and expertise for calculating trading loss following a fire.

Additional accreditations

Our firm is one of the few companies that isn’t one of the ‘big four’ in Belgium that has recognition from the National Bank of Belgium to audit payment and electronic money institutions. In addition, our firm also has recognition from the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) to audit investment, insurance and pension funds.

Agreed upon procedures

As a valued Vandelanotte client, you may entrust a number of specific activities to your company auditor. The nature, scale and scope of such work is always agreed in mutual consultation, enabling us to deliver clear reports containing factual findings that are tailored to your organisation. In contrast to an assurance assignment, your company auditor will report exclusively on the findings, without expressing an opinion or conclusion.

ERDF Audit

Vandelanotte is an accredited ERDF Auditor (European Regional Development Fund). As an ERDF Auditor, our task comprises certifying the expenditure of Flemish project partners (such as cities, universities and non-profit organisations) to European Commission standards for programs running until 2020. We attained our coveted Vlaio (Flemish Agency for Innovation and Enterprise) accreditation largely thanks to our extensive experience in auditing European funded projects. In addition to the purely numerical audit, considerable attention is also paid to the content-related monitoring of projects.