Seminar (Dept. of Accounting)

Theme：Advancing Our Knowledge of Auditing through Research and Publishing: A Researcher’s and Editor’s View

Speaker：W. Robert Knechel

Time：2020-10-14 09:00

Address：Zoom APP

Language：English

Zoom APP

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Language ：English

SHORT BIOGRAPHY: 

W. Robert Knechel, PhD is the Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar in Accounting at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.  He is the Director of the International Accounting and Auditing Center (IAAC) located within the Fisher School of Accounting.  Robert holds appointments at the University of Auckland as a Professor of Accounting Research and University of New South Wales as a Professor of Auditing.  He was a member of the Standing Advisory Group (SAG) to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in the US and is on the Board of the Foundation for Audit Research in the Netherlands.  He is currently the Senior Editor of The Accounting Review.  He has previously served as the Senior Editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory from 2011 through 2014.   Robert’s research has been regularly published in a number of leading journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Organizations and Society, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory.  He was honored with the 2015 Outstanding Educator in Auditing Award given by the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association and received an Honorary Doctorate from BI Business School in Oslo, Norway.