Zvi Singer

Professor, Department of Accounting

Contact information

HEC Montréal
3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine
Montréal (Québec)
Canada H3T 2A7

Email : zvi.singer@hec.ca
Phone : 514 340-1847
Secretary: 514 340-6541
Fax : n/a
Office : 5.357

Other title(s)

Forthcoming

Education

Ph. D. (Accounting), University of California, Berkeley
MBA, Washington University
B. A. (Accounting and Economics), Tel-Aviv University

Current research

Curriculum vitae

This publication selection covers the last five years.

Journal articles (9)

CZIFFRA, Johnathon, SINGER, Zvi, ZHANG, Jing; « Do Big 4 Firms Provide Higher Audit Quality in Government Audits? Evidence from Canadian Provincial Consolidated Financial Statements », AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory, 2026 (status : online).

LI, Yuntian, LUO, Bing, SINGER, Zvi, ZHANG, Jing; « Can Critical Audit Matters Be a Signal of Poor Accruals Quality? », AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory, vol. 44, no 1, 2025, p. 163-187.

PRUIJSSERS, Jorien Louise, SINGER, Gallia, SINGER, Zvi, TSANG, Desmond; « Social influence pressures and the risk preferences of aspiring financial market professionals », The Journal of Accounting Education, vol. 62, 2023, p. 1-20.

KRISHNAN, Gopal, SINGER, Zvi, ZHANG, Jing; « Audit partner ethnicity and salient audit phenomena », Accounting, Organizations and Society, vol. 107, 2023, p. 1-29.

FRANCOEUR, Claude, LI, Yuntian, SINGER, Zvi, ZHANG, Jing; « Earnings forecasts of female CEOs: quality and consequences », Review of Accounting Studies, vol. 28, no 3, 2023, p. 1721-1764.

CZIFFRA, Johnathon, FORTIN, Steve, SINGER, Zvi; « Differences in government accounting conservatism across jurisdictions, their determinants, and consequences: the case of Canada and the United States », Review of Accounting Studies, vol. 28, no 2, 2023, p. 1035-1073.

SINGER, Zvi, WANG, Yan, ZHANG, Jing; « Can Short Sellers Detect Internal Control Material Weaknesses? Evidence From Section 404 of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act », Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, vol. 37, no 1, 2022, p. 3-38.

SINGER, Zvi, ZHANG, Jing; « Do companies try to conceal financial misstatements through auditor shopping? », Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, vol. 49, no 1-2, 2022, p. 140-180.

FEDYK, Tatiana, SINGER, Zvi, SOUGIANNIS, Theodore; « The Accrual Anomaly: Accrual Originations, Accrual Reversals, and Resolution of Uncertainty », Contemporary Accounting Research, vol. 37, no 2, 2020, p. 885-916.

This selection of supervision activities covers the last five years.

Dissertation direction – PhD in Administration (1)

In codirection with : FRANCOEUR, Claude
Gender, Management Earnings Forecasts, and Critical Audit Matters, by Yuntian Li
August 2023

Supervised project supervision – MSc in Management (1)

Qualité de l'information financière dans l'industrie cinématographique, télévisuelle et de diffusion en continu , by Neuyamond Nadia Prisca Meango
March 2025