Biography

Kathryn Kadous is an Associate Professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, where she teaches financial reporting and doctoral seminars in research methods and experimental accounting research. She earned a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Professor Kadous' research considers judgment and decision-making issues in accounting, with a focus on how accounting professionals' and managers' incentives influence their cognitive processes. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. She served as an associate editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory from 2005 to 2008 and is currently an editor of The Accounting Review.   She also serves on the editorial boards of Accounting Horizons and Behavioral Research in Accounting.

Publications

• Is There Safety in Numbers? The Effects of Forecast Accuracy and Forecast Boldness on Financial Analysts' Credibility with Investors (with M. Mercer and J. Thayer), Contemporary Accounting Research, 26(3): 933-968, Fall 2009
• Contracting on Contemporaneous vs. Forward-Looking Measures:  An Experimental Investigation (with A. M. Farrell and K. L. Towry), Contemporary Accounting Research, 25(3): 773-802, Fall 2008
• Do Effects of Client Preference on Accounting Professionals' Information Search and Subsequent Judgments Persist with High Practice Risk? (with A. M. Magro and B. C. Spilker), The Accounting Review, 83(1): 133-156, January 2008
• Using counter-explanation to limit analysts' forecast optimism (with S. Krische and L. Sedor), The Accounting Review, 81(2): 377-398, March 2006
• Quantification and Persuasion in Managerial Judgment (with L. Koonce and K. Towry), Contemporary Accounting Research, 22(3): 643-686, Fall 2005
• The Efficacy of Third-Party Consultation in Preventing Managerial Escalation of Commitment: The Role of Mental Representations (with L. Sedor), Contemporary Accounting Research 21(1): 55-82, Spring 2004
• The Role of Incentives to Manage Earnings and Quantification in Auditors'' Evaluations of Management-Provided Information (with U. Anderson and L. Koonce), Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 23(1): 11-27, March 2004
• The Effect of Quality Assessment and Directional Goal Commitment on Auditors' Acceptance of Client-Preferred Accounting Methods (with J. Kennedy and M. E. Peecher), The Accounting Review 78(3): 759-778, July 2003
• Improving Jurors' Evaluations of Auditors in Negligence Cases, Contemporary Accounting Research 18(3): 425-444, Fall 2001
• The Effects of Exposure to Practice Risk on Tax Professionals'' Judgments and Recommendations (with A. M. Magro), Contemporary Accounting Research 18(3): 451-475, Fall 2001
• The Effects of Audit Quality and Consequence Severity on Juror Evaluations of Auditor Responsibility for Plaintiff Losses, The Accounting Review 75(3): 327-341, July 2000
• The Explanation Effect: Cognitive and Strategic Components (with J. S. Hammersley and A. M. Magro), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 70(2): 149-158, May 1997
• The Joint Effects of Negative Affect and Task Difficulty in Multiattribute Choice (with D. N. Stone), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 70(2): 159-174, May 1997

Areas of Specialization

• Auditing
• Financial Reporting
• Behavioral Decision Making
• Social Cognition of Professionals

Achievements and Honors

• Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award, Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association
• Outstanding Dissertation Award, Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association
• Deloitte and Touche Foundation Doctoral Fellowship
• Pew Teaching Leadership Award

Professional Memberships and Activities

• American Accounting Association
• Society for Judgment and Decision Making
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• Certified Public Accountant (California (Inactive), Iowa)
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Academic Background
PhD, Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MAS, Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BSBA, Accounting, Creighton University