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.
Apply for a 2018 master thesis scholarship - digital transformers
Research highlights
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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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Tzu-Ting Chiu, Jeong-Bon Kim and Zheng Wang |
Customers´Risk Factor Disclosures and Suppliers´ Investment Efficiency. |
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Future research directions at the intersection between cognitive neuroscience research and auditors´ professional skepticism. |
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William Messier and Christian P. R. Pietsch |
The Effects of Time Pressure on Belief Revision in Accounting: A Review Of Relevant Literature within a Pressure-Arousal-Effort-Performance Framework. |
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Tzu-Ting Chiu, Yuyan Guan and Jeong-Bon Kim |
The Effect of Risk Factor Disclosures on the Pricing of Credit Default Swaps. |
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Arnt Ove Hopland, Petro Lisowsky, Mohammed Mardan and Dirk Schindler. |
Flexibility in Income Shifting under Losses. |
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Tensions in Attention: Use of information from budgets and Balanced Scorecard in handling the crises in a telecom company in distress. |
(JAOC) Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change, Volume 13 Issue 2. |
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Anita Meidell, Martin Carlsson-Wall, Kalle Kraus and Patrik Tran |
Managing risk in the public sector - the interaction between vernacular and formal risk management systems. |
Financial Accountability & Management |
Forthcoming events
- Economics, Ethics and Law seminar with Jake Thornock The long arm of the U.s. tax law: Compliance rates and costs related to fatca
- Faculty seminar with Antonio Estache When will regulations work?
- Financial Accounting and Auditing seminar with Per Olsson
- Economics, Ethics and Law seminar with Willeke Slingerland
- Financial Accounting and Auditing seminar with Lasse Niemi
- Faculty seminar with Steve Sutton
Research News
Top publication by Haufler, Mardan and Schindler
The article "Double tax discrimination to attract FDI and fight profit shifting: The role of CFC rules" has been accepted for publication in Journal of International Economics.
Promotion to full professors
Dirk Schindler and Trond M. Døskeland have been promoted to full professors at NHH.
From “reliability” to “faithful representation”
On Friday 15 December 2017 Hilde Kinserdal will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Digital revolution in the audit sector
NHH researchers are about to conduct an extensive study of the transformation taking place in the audit sector. The Research Council of Norway has granted the project NOK 10 million to study this digital revolution.