W Robert Knechel

W Robert Knechel

  • Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar Chair
  • Distinguished Professor and Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar
  • Director, International Accounting and Auditing Center

Location

  • Warrington College of Business
  • Fisher School of Accounting
  • International Accounting and Auditing Center
  • Gerson Hall 227A
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Expertise and interest areas

  • Auditing
  • Factors Affecting the Scope and Timing of Audit Engagements
  • Financial Reporting

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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)
  • Theoretical Constructs in Accounting (ACG7939)

Education

  • PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981
  • BS – Accounting, University of Delaware, 1977

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