When RegisterAccountants Sven Steijn RA and Tjerk Wolsak RA founded Just Audit in 2024, they set out to build an audit practice unencumbered by legacy desktop software and fragmented manual work papers.
Having spent extensive careers at KPMG and Deloitte managing both complex international group audits and mid-market engagements, the founders recognized that true audit quality and speed could only be achieved by designing a modern, cloud-native audit architecture from day one.
Today, Just Audit combines specialized audit platforms with automated data analytics to deliver a seamless, transparent client experience.
The AUDIT+ Cloud Foundation
Central to Just Audit’s operational efficiency is its strategic adoption of Caseware’s cloud-based AUDIT+ platform. Unlike traditional file-sharing or siloed desktop working files, AUDIT+ operates in a unified cloud environment:
- Real-Time Collaboration: Audit teams and engagement partners review working files simultaneously, removing reporting bottlenecks.
- Embedded Risk Framework (NV COS 315): Work programmes automatically align with the latest revised Dutch audit standards, dynamically tailoring risk identification to the client’s actual business processes.
- Bilingual Agility: Seamless switching between Dutch and English reporting interfaces, supporting both domestic mid-sized entities and Dutch subsidiaries of overseas multinational parents.
- Scalability with Independence: Just Audit remains fully partner-owned and independent, adopting agile software innovations without private equity cost pressure.
Practical Data Analytics in Action: The Power of Camt.053
A prime example of Just Audit’s data-first philosophy is how we transform routine cash flow testing. In traditional audits, verifying bank disbursements involves requesting dozens of individual invoices, bank statements, and payment slips based on arbitrary statistical sample sizes.
At Just Audit, we show CFOs and controllers how a single configuration in their commercial banking application exporting uncompressed camt.053 XML batch statements fundamentally changes the assurance process:
- 100% Population Coverage: Instead of testing 25 transactions, our automated analytical tooling ingests and reconciles 100% of outgoing transactions throughout the entire fiscal year in just a few hours.
- Instant Anomaly Detection: Automated scripts immediately cross-reference payment records to detect duplicate invoice numbers, repeat payments, unexpected rounding, and unfamiliar IBAN patterns.
- Actionable Governance Insights: Finance leaders gain mathematical certainty over their payment flows while reducing the time spent pulling physical vouchers by over 80%.
The "AI-Native, Auditor-Led" Philosophy
While technology powers our execution, the registered auditor remains at the helm:
- AI & Automation Prepare and Match: Algorithms handle document classification, transaction matching, prior-year carryforwards, and variance calculations.
- The Auditor Judges and Concludes: Experienced RegisterAccountants evaluate management’s accounting estimates, challenge commercial rationale, assess internal control maturity, and sign the independent auditor’s report with absolute confidence.
