G. Bradley Bennett

G. Bradley Bennett is professor and chair of the Department of Accounting and currently holds the Ronald C. Mannino Faculty Fellowship. His academic research focuses primarily on auditing topics using experimental methods, examining auditor-client communications, audit-client negotiations, and firms’ use of technology to disseminate financial information. His work is published in The Accounting Review; Contemporary Accounting Research; Accounting, Organizations, and Society; and Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. KPMG selected him as their 2017 James Marwick Professor in Residence. He has also received the prestigious AAA/Deloitte Wildman Medal Award (2015), which recognizes the academic publication that has had the most significant contribution to the accounting profession. Bennett serves on the scientific committee for the International Symposium on Audit Research and on the editorial board of Behavioral Research in Accounting. He is a CPA, and he was an audit manager at KPMG prior to earning his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama.

Selected Working Papers/Current Research

“‘Too Good to Be True’: The Joint Effect of Concreteness and Language Extremity on Investors’ Judgments” (with Nikki MacKenzie, Charlie Irons, and Elaine Wang). 

“CEO Speech Rate and Personal Responsibility Acceptance During Conference Calls” (with Scott Jackson, Yushi Tian, and Elaine Wang)

Media, Industry, and Public Impact

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). Proposing Release: Amendments to PCAOB Auditing Standards related to a Company’s Noncompliance with Laws and Regulations. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. June 2023. https://assets.pcaobus.org/pcaob-dev/docs/default-source/rulemaking/docket-051/pcaob-release-no.-2023-003---noclar.pdf?sfvrsn=fe43e8a_4 

Securities and Exchange Commission. Qualifications of Accountants. Federal Register 85 (239). December 2020. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/01/15/2019-28476/amendments-to-rule-2-01-qualifications-of-accountants 

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). J.D. Hanson (Board Member) Speech (2013a). “Rising Audit Professionals” February 28. https://pcaobus.org/news-events/speeches/speech-detail/rising-audit-professionals-_447 

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). J.D. Hanson (Board Member) Speech (2013b). Keynote Address at the American Accounting Association 2013 Ohio Region Meeting. May 10. https://pcaobus.org/news-events/speeches/speech-detail/keynote-address_464

IR Magazine. 2016. J. Cossette, author/interviewer. Topic: Research findings in current working paper “How Alignment between Perceptions of Corporate Persona and Communication Method Impact Investor Information Processing” (with R. Guggenmos). 

IS Chartered Accountant. 2016. Viewpoint: Social Mismatch Between Auditor and Client Management. Singapore. April. 

PQ Magazine. 2016. “‘Mismatch’ for Young Auditors.” United Kingdom. July.

Professional Links

• Google Scholar:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-aobP6AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
• SSRN:   https://papers.ssrn.com/Sol3/Cf_Dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1104643
• LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/bradley-bennett-162b0a29
• ORCID:   https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5385-3803