New Procedures Implemented
for Electing Auditing Section Officers

The Executive Committee has approved a change in procedure for voting for section officers. The election will now be held in the fall each year rather than at the Midyear Auditing Section Meeting and it will occur only electronically over the web. Members will receive an email explaining the specific procedures to cast a vote on the section web site. Please take the time to vote in this election in which three officers are to be elected under these new procedures. The winners will assume their responsibilities at the Annual Meeting in August 2002. The nominees for each of the offices are listed below.

Nominees for VP–Academic (President-Elect):

Urton Anderson
Urton Anderson is Clark W. Thompson, Jr. Professor in Accounting Education at The University of Texas at Austin and the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs. He joined the Department of Accounting at The University of Texas at Austin in 1984, teaching auditing and managerial accounting. Urton received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1985. Urton’s research has addressed various issues in internal and external auditing. He has written one book, Quality Assurance for Internal Auditing, as well as papers published in a variety of scholarly and professional journals. Urton is a Certified Internal Auditor and from 1994 to 1999 served on the Board of Regents for the Institute of Internal Auditors. In 1999 he was appointed a member of the Internal Auditing Standards Board. He served on the CCSA Steering Committee, which developed the professional examination for Control Self-Assessment and the CGAP Steering Committee for the new professional examination in governmental auditing. In 1997 he was named Leon R. Radde Educator of the Year Award, by the Institute of Internal Auditors. He served as program chair for the 1997 Midyear Conference of the auditing section.

Jean C. Bedard
Jean C. Bedard is the Joseph M. Golemme Research Professor of Accounting in the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern, she was Associate Professor and Arthur Andersen Faculty Fellow at the University of Connecticut. She holds academic degrees from Brown University (A.B.), the University of Cincinnati (M.S., M.P.A.), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (M.S.B., Ph.D.). Her research investigates the effects of processes of information acquisition and use on decision quality among auditors and lenders, the roles of risk and auditor independence in engagement planning and pricing, and the effects of information systems on the audit process. Jean has published in such journals as The Accounting Review, AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, Behavioral Research In Accounting, Journal of Accounting Literature, The International Journal of Auditing, The Journal of Business Research, and others. She is currently a member of the Editorial Board of AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory. Her prior editorial positions include Associate Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Editorial Boards of The Accounting Review and Issues in Accounting Education. Her primary teaching interests are financial reporting and accounting theory, and she has taught in undergraduate, M.S., M.B.A. and Ph.D. programs. Jean has served the Auditing Section in several roles, including as Secretary of the Section, Editor of The Auditor’s Report, and a member of the 2001 and 2002 Midyear Meeting Planning Committees. She is a current member of the Publications Committee of the American Accounting Association. She was also a member of the organizing committee of the AAA’s Doctoral Consortium, and a group leader at the New Faculty Consortium. Jean was a Co-Coordinator of the 1998 Accounting, Behavior and Organizations Section Research Conference, and serves as that Section’s Research Coordinator. Her work experience outside academia includes public accounting and management of public health services.

Nominees for Secretary:

Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi
Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi (Ali) is the John E. Rhodes Professor of Accountancy at Bentley College. He has a doctorate in business administration from Indiana University and is a Certified Public Accountant. He has formerly taught at Indiana University, Boston University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. His teaching includes auditing and methods and practices of professional research. Having interest primarily in behavioral auditing research, Ali has published regularly in Accounting and Business Research, The Accounting Review, Advances in Accounting, AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Behavioral Research In Accounting, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, among others. He has served or is currently serving on the editorial boards of several journals including the AAA’s publications, The Accounting Review and AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory. Also, Ali has served on many committees including the Program Director for the Auditing Section of the AAA Annual Meetings (1994–1996), the Auditing Section’s Liaison Committee with the Auditing Standards Board (1994–1997), and the Outstanding Auditing Dissertation Award Committee (Chair, 2001–2002).

William N. Dilla
William N. Dilla is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Iowa State University. He has also served on the faculties of the University of Missouri–St. Louis and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Bill received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin and his M.B.A. from Syracuse University. Prior to entering graduate school at The University of Texas, he served on the audit staff of Deloitte Haskins & Sells for three years. Bill’s research has investigated information representation effects on auditor risk judgments, information representation effects on managerial decision making under ambiguity, and information evaluation and decision aiding in multi-person management accounting settings. His research has been published in journals such as The Accounting Review, AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Journal of Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Decision Sciences. He serves on the Editorial Board of Advances in Accounting and has recently served as an ad hoc reviewer for AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Behavioral Research In Accounting, and Journal of Information Systems. He has received a KPMG Foundation Business Measurement Case Development program grant to write a case documenting a major financial institution’s online consumer lending strategies and business processes. Bill currently serves as the chair of the Auditing Section’s Education Committee, and has previously served as the Section’s Continuing Education Coordinator, its Midwest Region Coordinator, and as a member of its Auditing Standards Committee. He has served as a member of the AAA’s Faculty Development Committee. He is also a member of the AICPA and IIA, and has served the IIA as a member of the St. Louis Chapter’s Board of Governors and of that chapter’s Educational Foundation.

Nominee (unopposed) for VP–Practice:

George W. Krull, Jr.
George W. Krull recently retired as a Partner in the Executive Office of Grant Thornton LLP. He has over 30 years of professional experience in auditing, information systems and controls. He was a member of the Firm’s Professional Standards Group where he worked with the implementation of the Firm’s automated audit and control software and was the Firm’s National Director of Strategic Learning. He continues his involvement with accounting education as Executive in Residence and Professor of Accounting at Bradley University. George remains active with the academic and professional accounting community where he has leadership roles in the AICPA, American Accounting Association, American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, and the Federation of Schools of Accountancy. He has authored several articles and books, the latest book being, The Impact of Business Process Reengineering on Internal Auditing, with Mark F. Frigo and Stephen V. N. Yates, published by the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation, 1995. George graduated with undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees from The Ohio State University, Oklahoma State University, and Michigan State University, respectively.

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