This study examines the role of an individual auditor's cognitive ability in delivering high-quality audits. Our results from analyzing archival data from Sweden show that audit partners' IQ scores obtained from psychological tests are positively associated with going-concern audit reporting...

Today’s business world calls for leaders, and the auditing profession is no exception. Informed by emerging research on individual auditors, we investigate whether and how leadership ability, an attribute the auditing profession strongly emphasizes, is rewarded by the audit labor market. Using...

An analysis of a unique proprietary dataset reveals that non-trivial proportions of directors, CEOs and CFOs in Swedish listed companies have been convicted of crimes. Based on prior literature, we argue that directors and senior executives with prior criminal convictions are more prone to take...