Rate My Professor Kris Hardies

Hardies' research specializations include external auditing, assurance services, financial reporting, gender relations in professional service firms, and corporate social media use. Ongoing projects encompass auditors' reliance on emerging technologies like decision support systems from data sources including emails and social media; analysis of auditors' personalities using data from 342 audit engagements and 1,447 auditors during FWO and BOF sabbatical leaves in 2024-2025, with collaborations at Penn State University and Copenhagen Business School; and the Fulbright Award-funded stay at Penn State in 2024. Previous projects address auditor selection processes, professional skepticism profiles, and capital market effects of social media. Key publications feature 'Gender Discrimination? Evidence from the Belgian Public Accounting Profession' (Contemporary Accounting Research, 2021), 'Archival Research on Audit Partners' (2021), 'Male and Female Auditors' Overconfidence' (2012), 'An Analysis of Auditors' Going-Concern Reporting' (2018), and 'A Guide for Accounting Researchers to Conduct and Report Field Experiments' (2024). His scholarship has over 2,100 citations on Google Scholar. Awards include the Faculty of Business and Economics Research Award 2020 for scientific and social impact, the 2025 BRIA Best Paper Award from the AAA's ABO section, and the Fulbright Award. His work informs audit standards, regulators, and professional practice on skepticism, independence, and firm culture.