Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law
Welcome to the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law at NHH, an ambitious and thriving environment for research and learning.
Our faculty has three main research and teaching areas: Financial Accounting and Auditing, Management Accounting and Control, and Economics, Ethics and Law.
The department has strong ties to the practice field, both in teaching and research, and attracts a high number of students.
On this web site you will find information about who we are and what we do.
Research centres
Research highlights
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Yuanyuan Liu, Zhongwei Huang, Like Jiang and William F. Messier Jr. |
Are Investors Warned by Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest? The Moderating Effect of Investment Horizon |
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William Messier, Like Jing and David A. Wood |
The Association between Internal Audit Operations-Related Services and Firm Operating Performance. |
Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, posted online 2019 |
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Aasmund Eilifsen, Natalia Kochetova and William F. Messier Jr. |
Mitigating the Dilution Effect in Auditors´ Judgements Using a Frequency Response Mode |
Behavioral Research in Accounting, Vol. 31, No. 2, Fall 2019, pp. 51-71 |
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Steve G. Sutten, Vicky Arnold and Matthew Holt |
How Much Automation Is Too Much? Keeping the Human Relevant in Knowledge Work |
Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, Vol. 15, No. 2, Fall 2018, pp. 15-25 |
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Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Amina Mohamed Maalim, Vincent Somville, and Bertil Tungodden |
Reducing early pregnancy in low-income countries: A literature review and new evidence |
"Towards Gender Equity in Development", 2018, edited by Edited by Siwan Anderson, Lori Beaman and Jean Philippe-Platteau, Oxford University Press. |
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Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Simon Galle, Edward Miguel, Dan Posner, Bertil Tungodden and Kelly Zhang |
Ethnically Biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya |
Forthcoming in Journal of the European Economic Association |
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Gender, Social Norms, and Entrepreneurship |
Accepted for publication in Small Business Economics |
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Tzu-Ting Chiu, Jeong-Bon Kim and Zheng Wang |
Customers´Risk Factor Disclosures and Suppliers´ Investment Efficiency. |
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William Messier and Martin Schimdt |
Offsetting Misstatements: The Effect of Misstatement Distribution, Quantitative Materiality, and Clien Pressure on Auditors´ Judgments |
The Accounting Review, Vol. 93, No. 4, July 2018, pp. 335-357 |
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Aasmund Eilifsen, Reiner Quick, Florian Schmidt and Steffen Umlauf |
Investors´perceptions of nonaudit services and their type in Germany: The financial crisis as a turning point |
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Arnt Ove Hopland, Petro Lisowsky, Mohammed Mardan and Dirk Schindler. |
Flexibility in Income Shifting under Losses. |
Research News
Accounting quality and the macroeconomic environment
On Tuesday 7 January 2020 Svein Abrahamsen will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Can formal controls stimulate responsible behaviour?
On Friday 18 October 2019 Grete Helle will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Sustainable business models to the masses
It is expected that businesses today work to reach sustainability goals, but how can they do this in practice? The CEMS strategic partnership project "Sustainable Business Models" has produced open access teaching modules which address this challenge.
NHH launches module-based education
Erna Solberg want workers to constantly update their skills in order to meet the labour market's need of expertise in the future. NHH believes ‘shopping for courses’ can be the solution.