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With diverse research interests that span an array of critical questions, our faculty focus especially on the factors affecting judgment and decision making in audit, tax, corporate governance and management control.
<h2>Introduction – The Impact of Other Auditors in a Global Audit</h2> <p>The increasing integration of world economies and the resultant globalization of multinational public companies has led to increased use of, and more significant roles for, accounting firms and individual accountants other than the lead auditor (“other auditors”) on many issuer audit engagements. In 2021, for example, 26 percent of all issuer audit engagements and 57 percent of large accelerated filer audits involved the use of other auditors by the lead a...
Two recent studies found that auditors with valuable expertise in a specific class of complex transactions and accounts improve audit quality.
Rani Hoitash is the John E. Rhodes Professor of Accountancy at Bentley University. He received his Ph.D. in accounting and information systems from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Science in Economics at the College of Management in Tel-Aviv Israel. His research concentrates on corporate governance, internal controls and auditing. His work is published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Sloan Management Review, and seve...