Alain Schatt is Full Professor of Financial Accounting at HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne.

Before joining HEC Lausanne, he has held different positions in academia. His research focuses on financial reporting, corporate governance and the audit market. In particular, he is interested in the consequences of specific regulations on audit quality and on the value of public firms.

Jean Bédard is professor at Laval University in Québec City. 

His research covers various audit subject matters and research methods; spanning, for example, auditor expertise, audit committees and corporate governance, internal control systems, professional ethics, regulation of the accounting profession, auditor judgment, and auditor report, employing experimentation, interviewing, field work, and empirical archival methods.