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Tzachi Zach

Business, Management and Accounting · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1999Rising activity
Auditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceCorporate Finance and GovernanceFinancial Markets and Investment StrategiesFinancial Reporting and Valuation ResearchRisk Management in Financial Firms

Publications

56

Citations

2,535

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

27

Publishing since 1999

Research summary
AI-generated

Tzachi Zach's research examines financial reporting, auditing quality, and how financial analysts form and use forecasts and ratings. Topics include audit regulation and inspection scandals, sell-side analysts' rating systems and their assessment of ESG (environmental, social, governance) risks, and how companies manage reported earnings and share repurchases. The work generally relies on analysis of financial and market data to study the accounting and auditing profession.

Audit quality and regulationFinancial analysts' forecasts and ratingsEarnings management and financial reportingCorporate governance and disclosureESG risk assessment in finance

Publication output has grown notably in recent years, rising from about 1-2 papers per year in 2017-2021 to 4-6 in 2024-2025, despite a gap with no recorded output in 2023.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.6/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 1 publication182019: 2 publications192020: 2 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 3 publications22232024: 4 publications242025: 6 publications62526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×10
  • Contemporary Accounting Research×2
  • Journal of Accounting and Economics×1
  • The Accounting Review×1
  • Issues in Accounting Education×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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