Areas of responsibility
Geir Haaland is Associate Professor in auditing and accounting at the Department of Economics at the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder. He holds a Master of Accounting and Auditing from NHH Norwegian School of Economics, and is certified as a state authorized public accountant.
Haaland heads the University of Agder’s Master’s Program in Accounting and Auditing. For a number of years, he has also been a lecturer in auditing at the University of Stavanger, and he is a widely used lecturer on a series of topics within accounting and auditing.
Haaland's professional interests include auditing, corporate governance, financial accounting and the work of Board of Directors. In conjunction with the IFRA research project, funded by The Research Council of Norway, which researched, he co-authored the resarch article "Multi-mode standardisation and comparability: Norway's failed attempt to adopt the IFRS for SMEs" published in Accounting and Business Research.
Haaland has published articles in the journals Revisjon og Regnskap and MAGMA and he has authored an exercise book in accounting.
Auditing and Industry experience (alphabetic order)
As a former partner and regional unitleader of PwC Agder, Haaland was the independent auditor of a number of companies of general interest, in addition to a multitude of small and medium-sized enterprises.
- Auditing and Industry experience (alphabetic order)
- Agder Energi (Power production and supply, etc.)
- Agderforskning (Research foundation)
- Fædrelandsvennen (Newspaper)
- Hakon-gruppen (Supermarkeds)
- Herman Hansen Mek Verksted (Mechanical industry)
- Hydralift (Cranes and offshore projects)
- Kristiansand Dyrepark (Zoo and Amusement park)
- Kristiansand Kino (Cinema)
- Spareskillingsbanken (Banking)
- Strømmestiftelsen (Aid)
- Sørlandskonsult (Consulting Engineers)
- Vest Agder Sentralsykehus (Helathcare)
Committees
For several years he was the chair of the national examination committee for Practical test for auditors in Norway.
Haaland is a member of the Norwegian Council for Economic and Administrative Education’s Committee for Accounting and Auditing. and the School of Business and Laws point of contact in relation to The Norwegian Institute of State Autherized Public Accountants and Regnskap Norge (The Authorized Accountants' Association).
Teaching
- Auditing (RE 401, RE 400, BE 312, RE 300)
- Corporate Governance (BE 211)
- Accounting (BE 100, RE 301, BE 315, BE 317)
Research
https://www.uia.no/en/research/handelshoeyskolen/accounting-and-auditing
Academic interests
Auditing, accounting, corporate governance
Selected publications
- 2024: Relevance and significance in auditing. Revisjon og regnskap 4/24 p. 32 - 36
- 2020: Practical test for auditors. Revisjon og regnskap 4/20 p. 20 - 24
- 2019: Master's thesis in accounting and auditing Magma 1/19 p.17 - 20
- 2019: Key matters in auditing. Revisjon og Regnskap 1/19 p. 22 - 26
- 2014: Materiality in auditing. Revisjon og Regnskap 6/14 p. 25 - 31
General outreach
Seminars/workshops:
- How new accounting Sustainability Regulation will affect companies of different sizes (2024)
- Sustainability Reporting. Who should be involved? (2024)
- Relevance as the starting point for a target-effective audit (2024)
- ISA 315 – Identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement (2023)
- New Accounting Act - an overview (2023)
- Updating on the accounting and auditing regulations (2022)
- New ISA 315 - Implications for the auditing process (2022)
- Management of accounting firms (2022)
- New ISA 315 - Identification and assessment of the risk of misstatement in the financial statements (2022)
- Simplifications and changes in the annual accouning rules for small and medium sized enterprises (2022)
- Selected topics related to the auditing process (2021)
- Selected topics related to municipal financial audit (2021)
- Effective samling in auditing (2021)
- The importance of new money laundering regulations for various industries (Breakfast seminar 2020)
- Selected topics in auditing (2019)
- How to make use of your independent auditor (Breakfast seminar 2018)
- Upcoming legislative changes in the business area (Breakfast seminar 2017)
- From Corporate Risk to Audit Risk Assessment and Management (2016)
- Board responsibility and dividend (Breakfast seminar 2015)
- Accounting regulations (2015)
- Risk assessment and management in audit (2015)
- Descartes in the teaching (The World Bank 2015)
- Audit documentation, risk management and evidence (2013)
- New ISA - standards in Auditing (2010)
- Effective collection of evidence in auditing (2010)
- Advanced auditing (2009)
- Accountancy for practitioners (2008)
- Controlling for Payroll Controllers (2008)