2018F03 - Audit committee involvement and audit inspection regimes (PhD program: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
This PhD study aims to contribute to knowledge about underlying drivers of auditors’ behaviour and decision making, by examining enabling effects of audit committee interactions (theme 1) and adverse effects on audit quality of regulation developments, as well as how these can be mitigated at the firm, office, or team level (theme 2).
2018F02 - Learning in audit firms: the role of experience, feedback, and audit specialists (PhD program: Tilburg University)
The goal of the PhD project is to improve our understanding of learning in audit firms by explicitly incorporating that learning in audit firms happens in several ways.
2018F01 - Management control systems and audit quality (PhD program: University of Groningen)
In this PhD-study, we propose to examine the effect of management control systems, as an audit firm characteristic, on audit quality.
2019E01 - What makes audit partners and their engagement teams successful? (Prof. dr. Francis)
The research objective is to understand the primary factors that make audit partners, management and their engagement teams successful in terms of the quality of their teamwork and engagement outcomes.
2019D01 - Case study audit process and outcome quality
This case study will investigate the effect of internal and external audit quality inspection findings on the audit opinion and financial reporting quality.
2017D02 - Near miss case study - Audit and fraud risk judgments
The case study looks at a near miss that pertained to one engagement and to describe what happened after the near miss event (e.g., interventions or corrective measures).