Sanaz Aghazadeh received her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma and her B.S. from
LSU. Her research examines the judgment and decision making behavior of auditors.
Specifically, she studies how auditor-client interactions impact audit effectiveness.
Her research has been published in Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary
Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and Behavioral Research
in Accounting. She has been awarded grants from the Center for Audit Quality to complete
her research on manager confidence. She received the 2019 Auditing Mid-Year Meeting
Best Paper Award. At LSU, she is the recipient of the 2021 E. J. Ourso College of
Business Research Excellence Award and the 2019 Outstanding Untenured Faculty Teaching
Award. Prior to beginning her academic career, she provided internal auditing services
for clients at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City. She serves on the editorial
review board of Behavioral Research in Accounting.
Aghazadeh, S., & Joe, J. R. (2022). Auditors' response to management confidence and
misstatement risk. Accounting Organizations and Society, 101, 101348. doi:10.1016/j.aos.2022.101348
Aghazadeh, S., Kang, Y. J., & Peytcheva, M. (Forthcoming). Auditors’ scepticism in
response to audit committee oversight behaviour. Accounting and Finance. doi:10.1111/acfi.12944
Aghazadeh, S., Brown, J. O., Guichard, L., & Hoang, K. (2022). Persuasion in Auditing:
A Review Through the Lens of the Communication-Persuasion Matrix. European Accounting
Review, 31(1), 1-28. doi:10.1080/09638180.2020.1863243
Aghazadeh, S., Hoang, K., & Pomeroy, B. (Forthcoming). Using LIWC to Analyze Participants’
Psychological Processing in Accounting JDM Research. Auditing A Journal of Practice
& Theory. doi:10.2308/ajpt-2020-060
Aghazadeh, S., Dodgson, M. K., Kang, Y. J., & Peytcheva, M. (2021). Revealing Oz:
Institutional Work Shaping Auditors' National Office Consultations. Contemporary Accounting
Research, 38(2), 974-1008. doi:10.1111/1911-3846.12655
Aghazadeh, S., & Hoang, K. (2020). How does audit firm emphasis on client relationship
quality influence auditors’ inferences about and responses to potential persuasion
in client communications?. Accounting Organizations and Society, 87, 101175. doi:10.1016/j.aos.2020.101175
Aghazadeh, S., Collins, A. M., & Stefaniak, C. M. (2020). The Effects of Client Status
and the Auditor's Presentation of Multiple Estimation Alternatives on Client Financial
Reporting Aggressiveness. Behavioral Research in Accounting, 32(2), 1-14. doi:10.2308/bria-19-025
Teaching Interests: Auditing and Cost Accounting
Research Interests: Judgment and decision making, specifically as they relate to the
audit profession.
- Research Excellence Award, E.J. Ourso College of Business, 2021
- Vincent C. Brenner Endowed Faculty Research Award, Department of Accounting, 2021
- Outstanding Untenured Professor Teaching Award , E.J. Ourso College of Business, 2019
- Vincent C. Brenner Endowed Faculty Research Award, Department of Accounting, 2019
- 2019 Auditing Midyear Meeting Best Paper Award, AAA, 2019
Other; Forbes Insights and KPMG; Audit 2020: A Focus on Change; 2015
Magazine; CFO.com; Unfriendly Persuasion by CFOs Could Spur Faulty Audits; 2015
