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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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Is Employee Satisfaction a Company’s Best Crisis Insurance?
This study investigates whether employee satisfaction can protect firms during economic crises. Using employee reviews from Glassdoor for over 400 S&P 500 companies, the researcher analyzes how satisfaction levels before the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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Can ESG Reporting Make Financial Reporting Faster?
The authors investigate whether corporate ESG disclosure is related to the speed of financial reporting and auditing. Specifically, it examines how the amount of ESG information is associated with the timing of earnings announcements...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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Are Passive Investors Enabling Earnings Manipulation?
This study investigates how passive institutional investors—such as index funds—affect companies’ decisions to repurchase their own shares...
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Thursday, October 16, 2025
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Can Stronger Team Engagement Improve Audit Quality?
This study examines how lead audit partners’ leadership styles shape team engagement and auditor well-being. It responds to growing concerns about stress, burnout, and declining audit quality in the profession by exploring how...
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Thursday, October 16, 2025
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Do Outside Board Seats Help CEOs Think Long-Term?
This study examines whether CEOs who serve on the boards of other companies are less likely to make short-term business decisions—like cutting R&D spending to meet earnings targets—and more likely to take actions that improve long-term performance...
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Thursday, October 16, 2025
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Time Out: Auditor Perceptions and Audit Outcomes When Moving Away from a Time-Based Budget Audit Model
This study examines an alternative to the traditional time-based budget (TBB) audit model—called the non-time-based budget (NTB) model—where auditors are not given time budgets and do not track billable hours. Researchers worked with...
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Monday, September 15, 2025
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ChatGPT is Ready for the Profession—But is the Profession Ready for ChatGPT?
This study examines how ready the accounting profession is to adopt and leverage ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can automate tasks and generate text. Through a survey of 136 accounting professionals and interviews with experts...
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Monday, September 15, 2025
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What Happens When Auditors Plan for the Inspector, Not the Risk?
This study examines how the risk of an audit oversight inspection affects how auditors plan their work at the account level. Using an experiment with 182 experienced auditors, the researchers tested whether auditors adjust the hours they plan...
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Monday, September 15, 2025
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How Clawbacks and Boards Shape CEO Behavior
This study investigates how two governance mechanisms—board monitoring (internal) and mandated clawbacks (external regulations)—jointly influence how managers use discretion...
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Friday, August 15, 2025
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Fraud Detection in Focus: What the Latest Research Means for Auditors
This study reviews academic research from 2017–2023 on how auditors identify, assess, and respond to fraud risks in financial audits. It synthesizes findings from over a dozen top-tier journals to provide insights for improving fraud detection.
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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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The Power of Words: How Subtle Language Shifts Boost Fraud Risk Disclosures
This study explores how small changes to the wording of audit fraud inquiries can increase client willingness to disclose fraud risks. Specifically, it tests whether minimizing the seriousness of the inquiry...
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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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