| 11TH WORKSHOP ON AUDIT QUALITY CAGLIARI, ITALY, SEPTEMBER 25-26, 2026 |
- Chairpersons
- Scientific committee
- Organising committee
- Description
- General track – Call for papers
- Deadlines
- Final paper submission
- Early Researcher Track (ERT)
- Programme
- Practicalities
- Administration
Chairpersons
Mara Cameran
Accounting Department,
Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Angela Pettinicchio
Università Cattolica del
Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Scientific committee
Lisa Baudot, Hec Paris
Mara Cameran, Bocconi University
Gilad Livne, Queen Mary University of London
Angela Pettinicchio, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Reiner Quick, Technical University of Darmstadt
Jaime Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin
Organising committee
Mara Cameran, Bocconi University
Mario Daniele, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Andrea Melis, Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Angela Pettinicchio, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Description
The workshop aims to promote discussion by sharing recent research on the major topics related to audit quality. The target audience: academics, PhD students, regulators and practitioners in the area of auditing and governance.
General track – Call for papers
The workshop aims to promote discussion among academics by sharing recent research on the major topics related to audit quality.
We invite papers that address (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- the role of regulation in improving audit quality
- corporate governance systems and their impact on audit quality
- audit quality and ethical standards
- auditor characteristics (independence, reputation, industry specialization) and audit quality
- auditor personal and professional skills as key drivers of audit quality
- audit market structure and audit quality
- new technologies and audit quality
- audit/accounting education and audit quality
- sustainability and audit quality
- measurement of audit quality
- audit quality and capital market efficiency
- audit behaviour (professional scepticism, incentives) and audit quality
To be eligible for presentation, manuscripts written in English must be submitted through the Workshop website. Only full papers will be considered in the selection. A discussant will be appointed to each presentation.
Submit your paper here
Deadlines
Submission deadline for Main and ERT Track: June 5th, 2026
Notification of acceptance: Notifications will be sent by July 15th, 2026
Authors’ registration: August 14th, 2026
Final Paper submission: September 4th, 2026
Final paper submission
To be announced.
Early Researcher Track (ERT)
The target audience of the Early Researcher Track are PhD students in their last year, post-doctoral researchers or early career researchers. If you in are one of these categories please submit via the link below and select the ERT track.
Full papers or extended abstracts with preliminary results (no limit on number of pages) can be submitted for this track.
Submit your paper here
Programme
To be announced.
Practicalities
VENUE
Università degli Studi di Cagliari – Via Sant’Ignazio da Laconi, 74
ACCOMODATION
Hotel Italia – 3 stars
18 min walking distance from conference venue
Discount code available upon request via email (workshoponauditquality@gmail.com)
Hotel Flora – 4 stars
13 min walking distance from conference venue
Hotel Regina Margherita – 4 stars
21 min walking distance from conference venue
Birkin Porto 1870
20 min walking distance from conference venue
Administration
workshoponauditquality@gmail.com