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Overview

Kathryn Kadous is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Business, Management, and Accounting, as well as Social Sciences. Their work focuses heavily on topics related to auditing, earnings management, and governance, with additional attention to experimental behavioral economics studies, accounting and organizational management, ethics in business and education, decision-making and behavioral economics, software engineering research, and accounting education and careers.

Their recent publications reflect a strong emphasis on auditing and behavioral aspects within accounting. Notable papers include:

  • Theory Testing and Process Evidence in Accounting Experiments, 2021, The Accounting Review
  • Improving Complex Audit Judgments: A Framework and Evidence, 2020, Contemporary Accounting Research
  • Do Managers' Nonnative Accents Influence Investment Decisions?, 2021, The Accounting Review
  • Friends in low places: How peer advice and expected leadership feedback affect staff auditors' willingness to speak up, 2020, Accounting Organizations and Society
  • The Sounds of Silence: A Framework, Theory, and Empirical Evidence of Audit Team Voice, 2021, Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory

Kathryn Kadous collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Chad A. Proell, Lisa Koonce, Emily E. Griffith, Shana Clor-Proell, and Bart Dierynck. These collaborations support Kadous's contributions across multiple research projects in accounting and auditing.

The researcher's work is prominently published in several academic venues, with the most frequent being The Accounting Review. Other notable venues include Accounting Organizations and Society, SSRN Electronic Journal, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory.

Their subfields of study highlight specific areas within their broader research scope, such as Accounting, Management Information Systems, Safety Research, Information Systems and Management, and General Decision Sciences. This demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach connecting accounting practices with behavioral and information systems research.

Best Publications

  • Audits of Complex Estimates as Verification of Management Numbers: How Institutional Pressures Shape Practice

    Emily E. Griffith;Jacqueline S. Hammersley;Kathryn Kadous

  • The Effect of Quality Assessment and Directional Goal Commitment on Auditors' Acceptance of Client‐Preferred Accounting Methods

    Kathryn Kadous;S. Jane Kennedy;Mark E. Peecher

  • Auditor Mindsets and Audits of Complex Estimates

    Emily E. Griffith;Jacqueline S. Hammersley;Kathryn Kadous;Donald Young

  • The Effects of Audit Quality and Consequence Severity on Juror Evaluations of Auditor Responsibility for Plaintiff Losses

    Kathryn Kadous

  • Grounding the professional skepticism construct in mindset and attitude theory: A way forward

    Christine J. Nolder;Kathryn Kadous

  • Improving Jurors' Evaluations of Auditors in Negligence Cases*

    Kathryn Kadous

  • Theory Testing and Process Evidence in Accounting Experiments

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  • How Do Auditors Weight Informal Contrary Advice? The Joint Influence of Advisor Social Bond and Advice Justifiability

    Kathryn Kadous;Justin Leiby;Mark E. Peecher

  • Do Effects of Client Preference on Accounting Professionals' Information Search and Subsequent Judgments Persist with High Practice Risk?

    Kathryn Kadous;Anne M. Magro;Brian C. Spilker

  • Can Reporting Norms Create a Safe Harbor? Jury Verdicts against Auditors under Precise and Imprecise Accounting Standards

    Kathryn Kadous;Molly Mercer

  • Quantification and Persuasion in Managerial Judgement

    Kathryn Kadous;Lisa L Koonce;Kristy L. Towry

  • How Do Audit Seniors Respond to Heightened Fraud Risk

    Jacqueline S. Hammersley;Karla M. Johnstone;Kathryn Kadous

  • Contracting on Contemporaneous versus Forward‐Looking Measures: An Experimental Investigation*

    Anne M. Farrell;Kathryn Kadous;Kristy L. Towry

  • How Insights from the “New” JDM Research Can Improve Auditor Judgment: Fundamental Research Questions and Methodological Advice

    Emily E. Griffith;Kathryn Kadous;Donald Young

  • The Role of Incentives to Manage Earnings and Quantification in Auditors' Evaluations of Management‐Provided Information

    Urton Anderson;Kathryn Kadous;Lisa Koonce

  • Using Counter‐Explanation to Limit Analysts' Forecast Optimism

    Kathryn Kadous;Susan D. Krische;Lisa M. Sedor

  • Do Financial Statement Users Judge Relevance Based on Properties of Reliability

    Kathryn Kadous;Lisa L. Koonce;Jane M. Thayer

  • The Effect of Quality Assessment and Directional Goal Commitment on Auditors' Acceptance of Client-Preferred Accounting Methods

    Kathryn Kadous;S. Jane Kennedy Jollineau;S. Jane Kennedy Jollineau;Mark E. Peecher

  • The Efficacy of Third-Party Consultation in Preventing Managerial Escalation of Commitment: The Role of Mental Representations Discussion of "The Efficacy of Third-Party Consultation in Preventing Managerial Escalation of Commitment: The Role

    Kathryn Kadous;Lisa M. Sedor;Hun-Tong Tan

  • How Does Intrinsic Motivation Improve Auditor Judgment in Complex Audit Tasks

    Kathryn Kadous;Yuepin (Daniel) Zhou

  • Is There Safety in Numbers? The Effects of Forecast Accuracy and Forecast Boldness on Financial Analysts' Credibility with Investors*

    Kathryn Kadous;Molly Mercer;Jane Thayer

  • Theory Testing and Process Evidence in Accounting Experiments

    H. Scott Asay;Ryan Guggenmos;Ryan Guggenmos;Kathryn Kadous;Lisa Koonce

  • Auditor Mindsets and Audits of Complex Estimates

    Emily E. Griffith;Jacqueline S. Hammersley;Kathryn Kadous;Donald Young

  • Quantification and Persuasion in Managerial Judgment

    Kathryn Kadous;Lisa Koonce;Kristy L. Towry

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa Koonce
Lisa Koonce The University of Texas at Austin
Karla M. Johnstone
Karla M. Johnstone University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert Libby
Robert Libby Cornell University

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