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Gopal V. Krishnan

Gopal V. Krishnan

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Business and Management

D-Index
43
Citations
10973
World Ranking
1404
National Ranking
594

Economics and Finance

D-Index
43
Citations
10973
World Ranking
1938
National Ranking
1131

Overview

Gopal V. Krishnan is affiliated with Bentley University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Business, Management, and Accounting. Their work encompasses a range of topics including auditing, corporate governance, financial reporting, and corporate social responsibility.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting

Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as:

  • Accounting
  • Strategy and Management
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Education
  • Management Information Systems

Their research topics delve into:

  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
  • Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
  • Risk Management in Financial Firms
  • Corruption and Economic Development

Gopal V. Krishnan has published in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Auditing
  • Indian Pediatrics
  • Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
  • Journal of Business Finance & Accounting

Recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines on Screen Time and Digital Wellness in Infants, Children and Adolescents, 2021, Indian Pediatrics
  • Audit fee lowballing: Determinants, recovery, and future audit quality, 2020, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
  • Does financial reporting quality vary across firm life cycle?, 2020, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting
  • Did mandatory CSR compliance impact accounting Conservatism? Evidence from the Indian Companies Act 2013, 2021, Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics
  • Audit partner ethnicity and salient audit phenomena, 2023, Accounting Organizations and Society

The researcher collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Myojung Cho
  • Jing Zhang
  • Yinqi Zhang
  • Zvi Singer
  • Songsheng Chen

Best Publications

  • Does Big 6 Auditor Industry Expertise Constrain Earnings Management

    Gopal V. Krishnan

  • Audit Quality: Insights from the Academic Literature

    W. Robert Knechel;Gopal V. Krishnan;Mikhail Pevzner;Lori B. Shefchik

  • Audit Quality and the Pricing of Discretionary Accruals

    Gopal V. Krishnan

  • Getting to the Bottom Line: An Exploration of Gender and Earnings Quality

    Gopal V. Krishnan;Linda M. Parsons

  • Does the SOX Definition of an Accounting Expert Matter? The Association between Audit Committee Directors' Accounting Expertise and Accounting Conservatism*

    Gopal V. Krishnan;Gnanakumar Visvanathan

  • Do Models of Discretionary Accruals Detect Actual Cases of Fraudulent and Restated Earnings? An Empirical Analysis*

    Keith L. Jones;Gopal V. Krishnan;Kevin D. Melendrez

  • An Empirical Analysis of Auditor Independence in the Banking Industry

    Kiridaran Kanagaretnam;Gopal V. Krishnan;Gerald J. Lobo

  • Auditor independence: evidence on the joint effects of auditor tenure and nonaudit fees

    Ferdinand A. Gul;Bikki L. Jaggi;Gopal V. Krishnan

  • The Association between Big 6 Auditor Industry Expertise and the Asymmetric Timeliness of Earnings

    Gopal V. Krishnan

  • Do Auditors Price Audit Committee's Expertise? The Case of Accounting versus Nonaccounting Financial Experts

    Gopal Krishnan;Gnanakumar Visvanathan

  • Reporting Internal Control Deficiencies in the Post-Sarbanes-Oxley Era: The Role of Auditors and Corporate Governance

    Gopal V. Krishnan;Gnanakumar Visvanathan

  • The Relation between Managerial Ability and Audit Fees and Going Concern Opinions

    Gopal V. Krishnan;Changjiang Wang

  • Audit Fees and Book-Tax Differences

    Michelle Hanlon;Gopal V. Krishnan;Lillian Fawn Mills

  • The Predictive Ability of Direct Method Cash Flow Information

    Gopal V. Krishnan;James A. Largay

  • CFO/CEO-Board Social Ties, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Earnings Management

    Gopal V. Krishnan;K. K. Raman;Ke Yang;Wei Yu

  • Does the SOX Definition of an Accounting Expert Matter? the Association between Audit Committee Directors' Accounting Expertise and Accounting Conservatism

    Gnanakumar Visvanathan;Gopal V. Krishnan

  • Is the market valuation of banks’ loan loss provision conditional on auditor reputation?

    Kiridaran Kanagaretnam;Gopal V. Krishnan;Gerald J. Lobo

  • Managerial Ability and Credit Ratings

    Kimberly J. Cornaggia;Gopal V. Krishnan;Changjiang Wang

  • Did Houston Clients of Arthur Andersen Recognize Publicly Available Bad News in a Timely Fashion

    Gopal V. Krishnan

  • Earnings management and market liquidity

    Asli Ascioglu;Shantaram P. Hegde;Gopal V. Krishnan;John B. McDermott

  • Do Models of Discretionary Accruals Detect Actual Cases of Fraudulent and Restated Earnings? An Empirical Evaluation

    Keith L. Jones;Gopal V. Krishnan;Kevin D. Melendrez

  • Auditor Independence: Evidence on the Joint Effects of Auditor Tenure and Non-Audit Fees

    Ferdinand A. Gul;Bikki Jaggi;Gopal V. Krishnan

  • Getting to the Bottom Line: An Exploration of Gender and Earnings Quality

    Linda M. Parsons;Gopal V. Krishnan

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald J. Lobo
Gerald J. Lobo University of Houston
Kiridaran Kanagaretnam
Kiridaran Kanagaretnam York University
Ferdinand A. Gul
Ferdinand A. Gul University of the Sunshine Coast
Lillian F. Mills
Lillian F. Mills The University of Texas at Austin
W. Robert Knechel
W. Robert Knechel University of Florida
Bikki Jaggi
Bikki Jaggi Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Paul Brockman
Paul Brockman Lehigh University

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