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FAR Literature Review - Audit Committees and Audit Quality

The purpose of this literature review is to provide an overview of the academic literature on the relationship between audit committees (ACs) and audit quality (AQ). The starting point for our review is the most recent comprehensive overview of literature on corporate governance research in accounting and auditing by Carcello et al. (2011a). We start from their findings and conclusions, and add our review of studies on the relationship between ACs and AQ for the most current period, starting with 2011. In doing so, we draw from the IAASB (2014) conceptual framework on AQ that presents the key input, process and output factors that contribute to AQ.

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Authors

Prof. dr. Ann Vanstraelen

Ann Vanstraelen is Full Professor of Accounting and Assurance Services at Maastricht University and serves as Head of the department of Accounting and Information Management. She coordinates the multidisciplinary research theme "Culture, Ethics and Leadership". She earned her PhD at the University of Antwerp. Her research interests relate to the broad field of auditing and assurance services, governance, corporate reporting and disclosure, with a specific focus on the quality of accounting and auditing practices. 

 


Dr. Sanne Janssen

PhD Researcher at University of Antwerp & Maastricht University

Dr. Mathijs van Peteghem

Assistant Professor at Maastricht University & Doctoral researcher KU Leuven

Dr. Caren Schelleman
Caren Schelleman is an assistant professor at the Department of Accounting and Information Management at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Caren coordinates and teaches courses on internal control and auditing at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She has presented papers at Annual Congresses of the European Accounting Association, Midyear Meetings of the Audit Section of the American Accounting Association, the International Symposium on Audit Research, conferences of the European Auditing Research Network, and at several workshops and seminars in Europe and the US. Her research interests include auditing, assurance services, internal control, and corporate governance, both from an economic and a behavioral point of view.


Dr. Ulrike Thürheimer

Ulrike joined the School of Accounting at UNSW Sydney in August 2020. Prior to that, she completed her PhD in Auditing at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Ulrike's research centers around audit quality. She is interested in how inputs to the audit, the audit process and contextual factors affect audit production and audit quality. Specifically, her research investigates the quality of group audits, the effectiveness of public oversight and auditor's incentives from regulation and litigation. 

Prof. dr. Ganesh Krishnamoorthy

Professor Ganesh's primary areas of research interest include corporate governance, audit judgment, and internal auditing. 

He has extensive work experience in public accounting and in industry that spans several countries including India, Liberia (West Africa), and the United States.

Dr. Rogier Deumes
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