Marc A. Sahner

Marc Sahner is partner and member of the Audit & Assurance leadership team at Grant Thornton in Germany. As a tax adviser, German Public Auditor and auditor for quality assurance, he has more than 25 years of professional experience in in statutory audit and audit-related advisory services for international, mid-market and for the most part owner-run companies. Marc Sahner’s sector focus lies in retail & consumer products, the chemicals & pharmaceuticals industry, service companies of all kinds, and plant and mechanical engineering.

Fields of expertise

• Audits of financial statements and consolidated financial statements
• Integrated assurance services, particularly for professionalising commercial processes or preparing capital market transactions (‘exit readiness’)
• Internal controls & internal audit
• Fraud audits & other special-purpose audits on an ad hoc basis
• Peer reviews

Memberships

• Institute of Public Auditors in Germany [Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer e.V. (IDW)]
• Chamber of German Public Auditors [Wirtschaftsprüferkammer]

Publications

• Co-author of the practice commentary: Qualitätskontrolle in der Wirtschaftsprüfung [Quality control in auditing], Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt, Cologne 2002
• Publications in the field of compliance:
• ‘Big Data & Internal Investigation – große Datenmengen effizient analysieren’ [‘Big data & internal investigation – analysing large amounts of data efficiently’, best practice contribution to the BUJ Compliance Summit 2015, together with Christian Knake]
• ‘Compliance in Zahlen’ [Compliance in numbers] (November 2012/FINANCE)
• ‘Compliance Management: Rechte und Pflichten des Aufsichtsrats’ [‘Compliance Management – rights and duties of the supervisory board’, best practice contribution to the BUJ Compliance Summit 2013, together with Willi Viefers)
• ‘§ 130 OWiG und IDW PS 980, Spannungsfeld oder echte Haftungserleichterung?’ [‘Section 130 of the Administrative Offences Act and IDW PS 980 – an area of conflict or real relief from liability?’, best practice contribution to the Compliance Summit 2014, together with Christian Knake)