Auditing;
Financial reporting
Audit quality;
Auditor judgment;
Audit firm portfolio risk management;
Corporate governance
Jean C. Bedard is Professor Emerita in the Department of Accountancy at Bentley University. Professor Bedard's research interests include individual auditor decision quality, risk assessment and adjustment in audit engagements, and the effects of computerization on the audit process. She has published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and in a number of other scholarly and professional journals. Her primary teaching interests are financial accounting and auditing, and she has taught at the undergraduate, Masters and doctoral levels. Professor Bedard has served as Vice President-Publications of the American Accounting Association, and has also been President, Secretary and Historian of the AAA's Auditing Section. Other service activities for the American Accounting Association include chairing the Deloitte Wildman Award Committee, and serving on the Nominations and Publications Committees. She has also served as Research Coordinator for the AAA's Accounting, Behavior and Organizations Section. Professor Bedard's work experience outside academia includes public accounting and management of public health services.