Annita Florou

Full Professor
Knowledge groupAccounting
Research domainsAudit & Risk Management

Biography

Annita Florou is Professor of Accounting at Università Bocconi since 2018. She is currently the Curriculum Coordinator of the Accounting PhD Programme and the Lead Faculty for the Transparency and Accountability research theme at Bocconi Lab for European Studies (BLEST). Before joining Università Bocconi she worked as Professor of Accounting at the Queen Mary University of London and as Associate Professor at the King’s College in London. Her research interests include auditor regulation, auditor reporting, sustainability reporting, usefulness of financial statement Information, financial reporting enforcement, and capital market consequences of IFRS adoption. Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including The Accounting Review and Review of Accounting Studies. Annita has received research grants from several organizations and the European Union. She is the Academic Advisor of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW); Editor of Journal of Business Finance and Accounting; and an Editorial Board Member of British Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, and Corporate Governance: An International Review. Annita got her Bachelor from the University of Macedonia in the Department of Accounting and Finance, an MBA from the Manchester Business School in Accounting and Finance and a Ph.D. from Warwick Business School.

Recent Publications

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  • 2024
    Public Audit Oversight and Audit Pricing: Evidence from the EU
    FLOROU, A., S. YUAN, "Public Audit Oversight and Audit Pricing: Evidence from the EU", European Accounting Review, 2024, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 1105-1137
  • 2024
    State Control, Related-Party Transactions and Audit Reporting: Evidence From Key Audit Matters
    FLOROU, A., X. WU, S. YUAN, V. ZHANG, "State Control, Related-Party Transactions and Audit Reporting: Evidence From Key Audit Matters", Journal of Accounting Auditing & Finance, 2024
  • 2023
    Reflections on the 20-Year Anniversary of Worldwide IFRS Adoption
    CASCINO, S., H. DASKE, M. DEFOND, A. FLOROU, J. GASSEN, M. HUNG, "Reflections on the 20-Year Anniversary of Worldwide IFRS Adoption", Journal of International Accounting Research, 2023, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 85-96
  • 2022
    Auditor University Education: Does it Matter?
    CHU, J., A. FLOROU, P. POPE, "Auditor University Education: Does it Matter?", European Accounting Review, 2022, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 787-818
  • 2020
    Proactive Financial Reporting Enforcement: Audit Fee and Accounting Quality Effects
    FLOROU, A., S. MORRICONE, P. POPE, "Proactive Financial Reporting Enforcement: Audit Fee and Accounting Quality Effects", The Accounting Review, 2020, vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 167-197
  • 2017
    Are international accounting standards more credit relevant than domestic standards?
    FLOROU, A., U. KOSI, P. POPE, "Are international accounting standards more credit relevant than domestic standards?", Accounting and Business Research, 2017, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 1-29