Hermann-Josef Schulze Osthoff

Herrmann-Josef Schulze Osthoff is a member of Audit & assurance management. He has more than 25 years’ experience in auditing according to national and international accounting standards. He focuses on advising large and mid-market international companies. As the lead audit partner, he advises on audits of large international (family-run) groups of companies, particularly in trade, the automotive supplier industry and engineering. A further focus is clients from the energy business and auditing of a number of regional electricity and water supply enterprises with public, usually municipal, shareholding structures (public utilities).

Fields of expertise

• Audits of separate and consolidated financial statements of SMEs and mostly owner-managed businesses according to German GAAP
• Audits of separate and consolidated financial statements of companies with international activities and owner-structure in accordance with international accounting standards such as US GAAP and IFRS.

Publications/Memberships

• Author for Beck‘ sches IFRS Handbuch – Kommentierung der IFRS/IAS [Beck‘s IFRS Handbook - Commenting on IFRS/IAS]
• Member of the Grant Thornton International Audit Advisory Committee, an international body to provide assistance and advice to the Global Leadership Board of Grant Thornton International in the Audit Service Line
• Member of the working group ISA Transformation of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany [Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer e.V. (IDW)]
• Member of the administrative board of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany [Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer e.V. (IDW)]
• Indo-German Chamber of Commerce, Düsseldorf