Courses a.y. 2024/2025
Biographical note
I am a Researcher (Ricercatore Confermato) of Financial Accounting at Bocconi University with a PhD in Business Administration and Management from the Bocconi University (2000). I am also Italian Certified Public Accountant and Lecturer in Accounting, Control, Corporate and Real Estate at the Finance Department of the SDA Bocconi School of Management.
About
I am Associate Editor for Accounting Forum and Editorial Board Member for Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting and Business Research, International Journal of Auditing and Accounting in Europe.
Research interests
My research interests include audit market regulation (e.g. mandatory rotation), individual auditor characteristics and their impact on the quality of the service delivered, and accounting education. I am also interested in the ethical and equality dimensions related to the accounting profession.
Selected Publications
The relative importance of auditor characteristics versus client factors in explaining audit quality
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING AUDITING & FINANCE, Forthcoming
What is an accountant? An investigation of images
EUROPEAN ACCOUNTING REVIEW, 28(5): 849-871, 2019
Audit team attributes matter: how diversity affects audit quality
EUROPEAN ACCOUNTING REVIEW, 27(4): 595-621., 2018
Are There Adverse Consequences of Mandatory Auditor Rotation?Evidence from the Italian Experience
AUDITING, 34 (1): 1-24., 2015
Auditing teams: dynamics and efficiency
(1st ed.). Routledge., 2017
Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation and Audit Quality
EUROPEAN ACCOUNTING REVIEW, 25(1): 35-58., 2016
Are there adverse consequences of mandatory auditor rotation? Evidence from the Italian experience
AUDITING, 34 (1): 1–24., 2015
Financial reporting in family firms: a socioemotional wealth approach toward information quality
JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, 60(4): 926-960, 2022
Voluntary IFRS Adoption by Unlisted European firms: impact on earnings quality and cost of debt
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING, 55(3)., 2020
Educating the next generation of accountants: how to promote ethical consciousness through critical thinking
ACCOUNTING ETHICS EDUCATION, (1st ed.). Routledge., 2020
Is it shameful to be an accountant? GenMe perception(s) of accountants’ ethics
ABACUS, 53(1): 1–27., 2017