accountant cf. bedrijfsrevisor cf. commissaris

Flemish to English Bus/Financial Accounting

The reason for this post is the following phrase:

Werd een verificatie- of correctietaak betreffende de jaarrekening opgedragen aan een accountant ingeschreven op het tableau van de externe accountants van het Insituut der Accountants of aan een bedrijfsrevisor die niet de commissaris is?

If an 'accountant' is an auditor, and so is a 'bedrijsrevisor', and 'de commissaris' is the company auditor, how do I differentiate between the terms in English?

Thanks,

Lucy

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as I understand it

Deborah do Carmo

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Deborah do Carmo

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as I understand it

Someone like Jarry will know for sure probabaly but as I understand it the bedrijfsrevisor is the internal auditor and the commisaris is the statutory (independent) auditor) whereas accountant can be a chartered accountant or auditor.

Good luck

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Note added at 3 mins (2005-03-10 10:21:41 GMT)
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correction: probably

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Note added at 58 mins (2005-03-10 11:16:19 GMT)
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and then again if I look at this definition from Van Dale this would seem to say the \"be▪drijfs▪re▪vi▪sor\" is definitely not a company employee - will look again a little later Lucy as have a deadline here, but someone else should come along soon

〈de bedrijfsrevisor (mannelijk); bedrijfsrevisors/bedrijfsrevisoren〉〈in België〉
1 onafhankelijk deskundige die belast is met de controle van de boekhouding in ondernemingen

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Note added at 7 hrs 47 mins (2005-03-10 18:05:16 GMT)
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TERM financiële commissaris

Reference MBZ

Note {DOM} handelsrecht:handelswetgeving

Definition person or auditing body authorized to examine statements of account for accuracy

Reference Meeting Industry Terminology
(1)
TERM auditor

Reference Meeting Industry Terminology

Note {DOM} commercial law:commercial legislation
(2)
TERM statutory auditor

Reference CILF,Dict commercial européen,1992

Note {DOM} commercial law:commercial legislation

Peer comment(s):

agree	jarry (X) : I think Debbie is right. Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with the Belgian situation, so I have some doubt, especially about the function of a 'commisaris'. If this the same as the French 'Commissaire aux comptes' it would be the external auditor. 1 hr
	hi Jarry, thanks - of all of them I'm surest of the "commissaris" - had to deal with that one before, so almost sure is the external/statutory auditor

4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you - it's clear in my mind now!"

Glossary entry (derived from question below)

Flemish term or phrase:

accountant cf. bedrijfsrevisor cf. commissaris

English translation:

accountant cf. (independent) auditor cf. statutory auditor

Flemish term

accountant cf. bedrijfsrevisor cf. commissaris

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as I understand it

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