Biography
Jagan Krishnan is a Professor and Merves Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Accounting at Temple University’s Fox School of Business. He is the Director of the Ph.D. concentration in Accounting and teaches undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses in auditing. He has over 35 years of teaching and professional experience in auditing and consulting.
He is the recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Auditing Educator Award from the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA), the 2003 Musser Award for Leadership in Teaching, and the 2000 Beta Alpha Psi Teacher of the Year Award. His research interests include audit quality, corporate governance, auditor litigation, regulation, fraudulent financial reporting, and ESG/CSR activities by accounting firms.
He currently serves as an editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and previously served as an editor of Accounting Horizons. He has also served or continues to serve on the editorial boards of Review of Accounting Studies, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and Current Issues in Auditing. He is a member of the Standards and Emerging Issues Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
His research has appeared in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.
He earned both his MBA and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Prior to entering academia, he worked in the audit and consulting practices of affiliates of Ernst & Young and KPMG.
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
ACCT 3596 | Auditing | Undergraduate |
ACCT 9001 | Interdisciplinary Accounting Research | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Krishnan, J., Li, M., Mehta, M.N., & Park, H.J. (2025). Consequences for Culpable Auditors. Journal of Accounting Research, 63(4), 1493-1546. Wiley. doi: 10.1111/1475-679x.12608.
Krishnan, J., Li, M., & Park, H.J. (2025). Auditor political connections and SEC Oversight. Contemporary Accounting Research, 42(1), 217-246. Wiley. doi: 10.1111/1911-3846.12988.
Krishnan, J., Krishnan, J., & Maex, S.A. (2024). Does audit firm hiring of former PCAOB personnel improve audit quality? Review of Accounting Studies, 29(4), 3130-3175. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1007/s11142-023-09801-9.
Khavis, J.A., Krishnan, J., & Tipton, C. (2022). Implications of Employee Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance in Accounting Firms. Current Issues in Auditing, 16(1), P16-P26. American Accounting Association. doi: 10.2308/ciia-2021-006.
Adams, T., Krishnan, J., & Krishnan, J. (2021). Client influence and auditor independence revisited: Evidence from auditor resignations. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 40(5), 106846-106846. Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2021.106846.