W Robert Knechel
- Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar Chair
- Distinguished Professor
- Director, International Accounting and Auditing Center
Location
- Warrington College of Business
- Fisher School of Accounting
- International Accounting and Auditing Center
- Gerson Hall 227A
Expertise and interest areas
- Auditing
- Factors Affecting the Scope and Timing of Audit Engagements
- Financial Reporting
News
Corporate failures and the challenges facing the audit profession | Robert Knechel – Egyptian Online Seminars in Business, Accounting and Economics
Corporate failures & the audit profession | Robert Knechel – Veritas Investment Research
Bringing the numbers back to accounting – October 27, 2023 – Accounting is losing popularity among college students, according to Dr. W. Robert Knechel, Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar Chair at the Warrington College of Business.…
University of Florida faculty member appointed Senior Editor of prestigious accounting journal – June 29, 2023 – Dr. Jennifer Wu Tucker, Cook/Deloitte professor at the Warrington College of Business, was recently appointed Senior Editor of the Accounting Horizons academic journal. Accounting Horizons…
Warrington professor serves as founding editor for new academic journal – May 11, 2023 – A new academic journal, Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly, aims to build and strengthen the links between academia and practice, encourage younger academics by…
Courses taught
- Advanced DBA Research (ACG7978)
- DBA Doctoral Dissertation/Defense (ACG7985)
- Financial and Managerial Accounting (ACG5065)
- International Auditing (ACG6691)
- Overview of Accounting Research (ACG7885)
- Special Topics in Accounting (ACG6935)
Education
- PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981
- BS – Accounting, University of Delaware, 1977
PhD students advised
- Adriel Cardenas — 2022 — Current
- Hsu — 2024 — 2025
- Kevin James Munch — 2024 — 2025
- Blake Canziani — 2023 — 2024
- Mark Zakota — 2021 — 2023
- Mark West — 2021 — 2022
- Melonie Hall — 2020 — 2022
- Nicholas J Cicone — 2019 — 2022
- Zhenhao Piao — 2020 — 2022
Professional service
- Board of Directors, Foundation for Audit Research (Netherlands) — 2015 to Present
- Chairperson, Limperg Doctoral Colloquium in Auditing — 2006 to Present
- Committee Member, European Audit Research Network (EARNet) Doctoral Consortium — 2010 to Present
- Editor, Accountability and Sustainability — 2021 to Present
- Consulting Editor, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory — 2020 to 2023
- Senior Editor, The Accounting Review — 2020 to 2023
- Editorial Review Board Member, Contemporary Accounting Research — 2010 to 2022
- Chairperson, PCAOB Annual Conference — 2019 to 2020
- Editor, The Accounting Review — 2017 to 2020
Conference proceeding publications
- Auditing in a Sustainable World
- Status: Published
- Published Year: 2024
- Authors: Sven Gentner, W. Robert Knechel, Jacco Moison, Imre Nagy
Journal article publications
- Letter from the Editor
- Status: Published
- Journal: Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly
- Published Year: 2025
- Author: W. Robert Knechel
- The Role of Auditor Reputation in an Emerging Audit Marketplace: Evidence from Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Status: Accepted
- Journal: Management Science
- Accepted Year: 2025
- Authors: W. Robert Knechel, Steve Maex, Hyun Park
- Accounting in a Sustainable World
- Status: Accepted
- Journal: Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly
- Accepted Year: 2024
- Authors: W. Robert Knechel, Sven Gentner, Jacco Moisson, Imre Nagy, Stephen Taylor
- Submit-to-Accept Times in Accounting: Determinants and Comparisons to other Business Disciplines
- Status: Accepted
- Journal: Accounting Review
- Accepted Year: 2024
- Authors: W. Robert Knechel, Patrick Hurley, Ronen Gal-Or, Heather Pesch
- The Conventional Wisdom of Auditing: Can the Traditions of Auditing Rise to New Challenges?
- Status: Accepted
- Journal: Accounting in Europe
- Accepted Year: 2024
- Author: W. Robert Knechel
- Employee Training and a Test of Theory on Co-Production in Corporate Audits
- Status: Accepted
- Journal: Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory
- Accepted Year: 2024
- Authors: W. Robert Knechel, Christian Friedrich, Amin Sofia, Victor Zuiddam
- Commentary on Sustainability Assurance
- Status: Published
- Journal: Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly
- Published Year: 2024
- Author: W. Robert Knechel
- Letter from the Editor
- Status: Published
- Journal: Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly
- Published Year: 2024
- Author: W. Robert Knechel
- The Effect of Client Industry Agglomerations on Auditor Industry Specialization
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Accounting Research
- Accepted Year: 2024
- Authors: W. Robert Knechel, Devin Williams
- Assurance and Measurement in a Sustainable World
- Status: Published
- Journal: Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly
- Accepted Year: 2023
- Authors: W. Robert Knechel, Marc Siegel, Finn Kinserdal, Roger Simnett, Sebastian Dingel
- Letter from the Editor
- Status: Published
- Journal: Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly
- Accepted Year: 2023
- Author: Robert Knechel
- The Impact of Partners' Economic Incentives on Audit Quality in Big 4 Partnerships
- Status: Published
- Journal: Accounting Review
- Published Year: 2022
- Authors: Simon DeKeyser, Ann Gaeremynck, Robert Knechel, Marleen Willekens
- Do audit teams affect audit production and quality? Evidence Publications from audit teams’ industry knowledge
- Status: Published
- Journal: Contemporary Accounting Research
- Published Year: 2022
- Authors: Steven Cahan, Limei Chi, Robert Knechel, Tobias Svanstrom
- Audit Firm Political Connections and PCAOB Inspection Reports
- Status: Published
- Journal: Accounting, Organisations and Society
- Published Year: 2022
- Authors: Robert Knechel, Hyun Park
- What Does and Audit Really Cost: Auditor Pricing of Initial Engagements in a Fixed Cost Model
- Status: Published
- Journal: International Journal of Auditing
- Published Year: 2022
- Authors: Robert Knechel, Christie Novak
- Understanding Financial Auditing from a Service Perspective: Further Discussion
- Status: Published
- Journal: Current Issues in Auditing
- Published Year: 2022
- Authors: Matt Driskill, W. Knechel, Eddie Thomas
- Brain Drain or Survival of the Fittest: Determinants and Consequences of Auditors’ Leaving Public Accounting
- Status: Accepted
- Journal: Contemporary Accounting Research
- Published Year: 2021
- Authors: W. Knechel, Juan Mao, Baolei Qi, Zili Zhuang
- Who Stands for Audit?
- Status: Published
- Journal: International Journal of Auditing
- Published Year: 2021
- Author: Robert Knechel
- The Role of Assurance in Equity Crowdfunding
- Status: Published
- Journal: Accounting Review
- Published Year: 2021
- Authors: Evisa Bogdani, Monika Causholli, Robert Knechel
- Multimarket Contact and Mutual Forbearance in Audit Markets
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Accounting Research
- Published Year: 2021
- Authors: Simon DeKeyser, Ann Gaeremynck, Robert Knechel, Marleen Willekens
- Investments in Auditor-provided Non-audit Services and Future Operating Performance
- Status: Published
- Journal: Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory
- Published Year: 2021
- Authors: William Ciconte, Robert Knechel, Michael Mayberry
- Do Personal Beliefs and Values Affect an Individual’s ‘Fraud Tolerance’?
- Status: Published
- Journal: Journal of Business Ethics
- Published Year: 2021
- Authors: Robert Knechel, Natalia Mintchik
- How Do Audit Team Industry and Client-Specific Experience Impact Audit Effort, and Audit Fees?
- Status: Published
- Journal: International Journal of Auditing
- Published Year: 2021
- Authors: Christine Contessotto, Robert Knechel, Robyn Moroney
- The Future of Assurance in Capital Markets
- Status: Published
- Journal: Accounting Horizons
- Published Year: 2021
- Author: Robert Knechel
- A Multi-method Analysis of the PCAOB's Relationship with the Audit Profession
- Status: Published
- Journal: Accounting, Organisations and Society
- Accepted Year: 2020
- Authors: Robert Knechel, Matthew Ege, Phil Lamoreaux, Eldar Maksymov
Magazine/trade publication publications
- Do Audit Inspections Improve Audit Quality
- Status: Published
- Published Year: 2021
- Authors: W. Knechel, Amir Ghandar