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Faculty  :  Research

Accounting

Elizabeth Dreike Almer, CPA, Ph.D.

Editorial Boards:

Issues in Accounting Education

Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting

Recent Activity:

Almer, E.D., Cohen, J.R. and Single, L.E. (conditional acceptance) "Is It the Kids or the Schedule? The Incremental Effect of Families and Flexible Scheduling on Perceived Career Success," with J. R Cohen and L.E. Single, Journal of Business Ethics.

Almer, E.D., Cohen, J.R. and Single, L.E., "Factors Affecting the Choice to Participate In Flexible Work Arrangements," (2003) Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 22(1), 1-23.

Expertise:

  • Accounting ethics
  • Work-life balance
  • Diversity effects
  • Mentoring
Darrell Brown, CPA, Ph.D.

Editorial Boards:

Journal of Information Systems

International Journal of Information Systems

Recent Activity:

Marshall, R. Scott and D. Brown, "The Strategy of Sustainability: A Systems Perspective on Norm Thompson Outfitters' Enviromental Stewardship Initiatives", (forthcoming) California Management Review.

Marshall, R. Scott and D. Brown, "Corporate Environmental Reporting: What's in a Metric?" (2003), Business Strategy and the Environment. 12: 87-103.

Expertise:

  • Decision-making with accounting information – reliance on decision
  • Business metrics and measures for environmental sustainability
Jesse Dillard, Ph.D., The Retzlaff Chair in Accounting

Founding Editor:

Accounting and the Public Interest

Recent Activity:

Roslender, R. and J. Dillard. 2003. Reflections on the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Project. Critical Perspectives on Accounting . 14(3) 325-352.

J. Dillard. 2002. Dialectical Possibilities of Thwarted Responsibilities. Critical Perspectives on Accounting . 13(5-6) 621-642.

Expertise:

  • Behavioral & structural analyses of accounting
  • Public interest responsibilities
  • Ethical structures
  • Information systems
Catherine Finger, Ph.D.

Recent Activity:

"New Accounting Scholars' Publications in Accounting and Non-Accounting Journals," with Christensen, A. and Latham, C., Issues in Accounting Education, August 2002.

“What Do Analysts’ Stock Recommendations Really Mean?” with Landsman, W., Review of Accounting and Finance, 2003 (forthcoming).

Expertise:

  • Time series relations between accounting income, cash flows, and economic income
  • Financial analysts’ use of financial accounting information
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Incorporating the use of judgment into financial accounting courses
Raymond Johnson, CPA, Ph.D.

Recent Activity:

Modern Auditing (2000).  John Wiley & Sons with William Boynton and Walter Kell.

“Moving Complex Problems from Practice to the Classroom: A Framework for Evaluating Solutions and the Process of Developing Solutions,” presented to the Australian National University Seminar Series, Sydney, Australia, May 2001.

H. Thomas Johnson, Ph.D.

Recent Activity:

Profit Beyond Measure: Extraordinary Results through attention to Work and People , (New York: The Free Press/Simon & Schuster, November 2000), foreword written by Peter Senge. This book was awarded the 2001 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research and it has been translated into Japanese (2001) and French (2002).

Dr. Johnson also gave three lectures at the 2002 Uppsala Lectures in Business at Uppsala University in Sweden. All three lectures were published as a monograph by Uppsala University Press and another is forthcoming in Accounting, Organizations, and Society.

Expertise:

  • The performance measurement fallacy
  • Toyota production system
  • Sustainability and the ecozoic transformation
  • The “lean accounting” paradox
  • Business as a natural system
Bill Kenny, J.D., CPA

Recent Activity:

W. Kenny and A. Christensen, "Accountable Plans, Reimbursements and Per Diem Allowances (Part I), " The Tax Adviser, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, New York, NY., July 2003.

W. Kenny and A. Christensen, "Accountable Plans, Reimbursements and Per Diem Allowances (Part II), " The Tax Adviser, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, New York, NY., August 2003.

Donna Philbrick, CPA, Ph.D.

Associate Editor:

Accounting Horizons

Recent Activity:

Introduction to Financial Accounting, with Horngren, Sundem, and Elliott.

"Management Communications with Securities Analysts" with Francis J. & Hanna J.D., Journal of Accounting & Economics, 24 (3): 363-394, 1998.

Expertise:

  • Analysts forecasts
  • Role of financial analysts
  • Shareholder litigation
Rodney Rogers, CPA, Ph.D., Associate Dean

Recent Activity:

“Beyond agency and structure: Triple loop learning,” with K. Yuthas & J. Dillard, Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming.

Communication action and corporate annual reports,” with K. Yuthas & J. Dillard, Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 41, Nov/Dec, 2002, pp. 141-157.

Expertise:

  • Language based institutional theory
 
Kristi Yuthas, Ph.D., The Swigert Professor in Information Systems

Editorial Board:

Journal of Information Systems

Recent Activity:

“Ethics Research in AIS,” with Dillard, J., in AIS Research: Past and Future , Arnold, V. and Sutton, S. (forthcoming), Research Monograph, American Accounting Association.

“A Responsibility Ethic for Information Systems in Professional Services Firms,” with Dillard, J., Journal of Business Ethics, vol.30, no.4, pp. 337-359, 2001.

Expertise:

  • Management control systems
  • Accounting information systems
  • Business ethics

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