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Overview

Hun-Tong Tan is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with a significant emphasis on Accounting, Finance, and General Decision Sciences. Additional areas of study include Strategy and Management as well as Safety Research.

The main topics explored in their work cover Auditing, Earnings Management, and Governance, alongside Financial Markets and Investment Strategies. They also investigate Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Financial Reporting and Valuation Research, Risk Management in Financial Firms, and Corporate Finance and Governance.

Hun-Tong Tan has contributed several recent papers to academic literature. Notable works include:

  • "Enhancing Auditors' Reliance on Data Analytics under Inspection Risk Using Fixed and Growth Mindsets," 2021, The Accounting Review
  • "What Happens When Managers Are Informed? Effects of Critical Audit Matter Awareness and Auditor Relationship on Managers' Accounting Estimates," 2021, The Accounting Review
  • "You have been forewarned! The effects of risk management disclosures and disclosure tone on investors' judgments," 2022, Accounting Organizations and Society
  • "Enhancing Auditors' Reliance on Data Analytics under Inspection Risk Using Fixed and Growth Mindsets," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Causal Attribution, Benefits Sharing, and Earnings Management," 2022, Contemporary Accounting Research

Frequent publication venues for Hun-Tong Tan include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Accounting Horizons
  • The Accounting Review
  • Accounting Organizations and Society
  • Contemporary Accounting Research

Hun-Tong Tan collaborates often with several co-authors, including:

  • Tu Xu
  • Feng Yeo
  • Sompong Pornupatham
  • Thanyaluk Vichitsarawong
  • G-Song Yoo

Best Publications

  • Non-audit Service Fees and Audit Quality: The Impact of Auditor Specialization

    Chee Yeow Lim;Hun-Tong Tan

  • Judgment and Decision Making Research in Auditing: A Task, Person, and Interpersonal Interaction Perspective

    Mark Nelson;Hun‐Tong Tan

  • Tacit Managerial versus Technical Knowledge As Determinants of Audit Expertise in the Field

    Hun-Tong Tan;Robert Libby

  • Effects of Authoritative Guidance Availability and Audit Committee Effectiveness on Auditors' Judgments in an Auditor‐Client Negotiation Context

    Terence Bu‐Peow Ng;Hun‐Tong Tan

  • Judgment and Decision Making Research in Auditing: A Task, Person, and Interpersonal Interaction Perspective

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  • Effects of Expectations, Prior Involvement, and Review Awareness on Memory for Audit Evidence and Judgment

    Hun-Tong Tan

  • Accountability Effects on Auditors' Performance: The Influence of Knowledge, Problem-Solving Ability, and Task Complexity

    Hun-Tong Tan;Alison Kao

  • When the Use of Positive Language Backfires: The Joint Effect of Tone, Readability, and Investor Sophistication on Earnings Judgments

    Hun-Tong Tan;Elaine Ying Wang;Bo Zhou

  • Modeling the determinants of audit expertise

    Robert Libby;Hun-Tong Tan

  • Joint Effects of Principles-Based versus Rules-Based Standards and Auditor Type in Constraining Financial Managers’ Aggressive Reporting

    Karim Jamal;Hun-Tong Tan

  • Analysts' Reactions to Warnings of Negative Earnings Surprises

    Robert Libby;Hun-Tong Tan

  • Does Auditor Tenure Improve Audit Quality? Moderating Effects of Industry Specialization and Fee Dependence*

    Chee-Yeow Lim;Hun-Tong Tan

  • Sunk Cost Effects: The Influences of Instruction and Future Return Estimates

    Hun Tong Tan;J. Frank Yates

  • How does readability influence investors' judgments? Consistency of benchmark performance matters

    Hun-Tong Tan;Elaine Ying Wang;Bo Zhou

  • Retracted: Analysts’ Reactions to Earnings Preannouncement Strategies

    Hun-Tong Tan;Robert Libby;James E. Hunton

  • Do Auditors Objectively Evaluate Their Subordinates' Work?

    Hun‐Tong Tan;Karim Jamal

  • Retracted: Relationship Incentives and the Optimistic/Pessimistic Pattern in Analysts' Forecasts

    Robert Libby;James E. Hunton;Hun-Tong Tan;Nicholas Seybert

  • The Effects of Task Complexity on Auditors' Performance: The Impact of Accountability and Knowledge

    Hun‐Tong Tan;Terence Bu‐Peow Ng;Bobby Wai‐Yeong Mak

  • Does the Form of Management's Earnings Guidance Affect Analysts' Earnings Forecasts? (Retracted)

    Robert Libby;Hun‐Tong Tan;James E. Hunton

  • Analysts' Reactions to Warnings of Negative Earning Surprises

    Robert Libby;Hun-Tong Tan

  • Non-Audit Service Fees and Audit Quality: The Impact of Auditor Specialization

    Chee Yeow Lim;Hun-Tong Tan

  • Accountability Effects on Auditors' Performance: Influence of Knowledge, Problem-Solving Ability, and Task Complexity

    Hun-Tong Tan;Alison Kao

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Libby
Robert Libby Cornell University
Ken T. Trotman
Ken T. Trotman University of New South Wales
J. Frank Yates
J. Frank Yates University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mark W. Nelson
Mark W. Nelson Cornell University

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