| Officer Nominations for
2004–2005
Nominees for Vice
President–Academic (President-Elect)
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Mark S. Beasley |
Mark S. Beasley
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting at North Carolina
State University. He received a B.S. in accounting from Auburn University and a
Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Before entering the academic profession,
Mark was an Audit Manager with the Nashville, TN office of Ernst & Young
and a Technical Manager in the Audit and Attest Division of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants in New York City.
Mark
teaches auditing courses in the undergraduate and master’s programs, where
he is a member of NC State’s Academy of Outstanding Teachers, the College
of Management recipient of the Board of Governor’s Teaching Award, and a
member of NC State’s Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension.
He has actively conducted research related to financial statement fraud,
corporate governance, and enterprise risk management. His dissertation, which
examined the relation between board of director characteristics and instances
of financial statement fraud, was the recipient of the American Accounting
Association’s Competitive Manuscript Award and the Auditing Section’s
Notable Contributions Award. He co-authored a study published by the Committee
of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) titled,
Fraudulent Financial Reporting: 1987–1997, An Analysis of U.S. Public
Companies, and a study issued by the AICPA titled, Fraud-Related SEC
Enforcement Actions Against Auditors: 1987–1997. His research has been
cited numerous times in national publications and has been published in
numerous leading academic journals. He is the co-author of two textbooks, a
casebook, and an instructional novella.
He
currently serves on several editorial boards and is a member of the COSO’s
Enterprise Risk Management Advisory Council and the AICPA’s Antifraud
Programs and Controls Task Force. He recently completed service on the Auditing
Standards Board’s Fraud Standard (SAS No. 99) Task Force and is the past
Treasurer of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting
Association.
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Ken Trotman |
Ken Trotman is
Scientia Professor, School of Accounting, University of New South Wales,
Australia. He has held visiting appointments at Boston College, Cornell
University, California State Poly U-Pomona, Nanyang Technological University,
and the University of Michigan. Ken has a long association with the American
Accounting Association, having served several terms on the editorial boards of
both The Accounting Review and Auditing: A Journal of Practice &
Theory (AJPT). He was associate editor of the AJPT from 2000 to
2002, and Director of Research for the Auditing Section of the AAA from 1998 to
2000. Ken received the 2001 Outstanding Auditing Educator Award from the AAA
Auditing Section. His previous administration experience includes eight years
as Head of School at UNSW and five years on the executive committee of the
Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ),
including a year as President. Ken was awarded life membership of AFAANZ in
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Nominee for Vice President–Practice
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D. Scott
Showalter |
D. Scott
Showalter, Partner, KPMG. Based in New Jersey, Scott is the Industry Sector
Leader for KPMG’s public sector practice. From 1998 to 2002, Scott served
as the national managing partner in charge of the Firm’s Assurance &
Advisory Services Center (AASC), KPMG’s global center of excellence for
developing and deploying assurance services, technology tools, and
methodologies. With more than 28 years of experience with KPMG, he has served
as a technical advisor and lead partner to many of KPMG’s largest and most
complex public sector clients, including several states and major
cities. Scott has held numerous Firm leadership positions, including national
industry director of KPMG’s state and local government practice, national
partner in charge of assurance-based advisory services for public services, and
national risk management partner for public services. He is considered a
national authority on public sector financial management and performance
measurement. Scott is the co-editor of Warren Gorham and Lamont’s monthly
newsletter, Government Accounting and Auditing Update. In 2001, he was
recognized as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in
Accounting” by Accounting Today magazine.
Scott is a
certified public accountant in New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and
Wisconsin, and a certified government financial manager. He has been a course
instructor for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
and former member of the AICPA’s Governmental Accounting and Auditing
Committee. In addition, Scott currently serves as the vice-president for
practice of the Auditing Section, Government Finance Officers Association, and
Association of School Business Officials. Scott is a visiting instructor at the
School of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Illinois
and the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
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Nominees for
Secretary
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Brian Ballou |
Brian Ballou is
an associate professor of accounting at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where
he teaches undergraduate and graduate auditing and risk management courses.
This fall, he is visiting the University of Illinois in Champaign–Urbana,
where he is teaching an undergraduate course on control of accounting
information. Prior to joining Miami University in 2003, Brian was an associate
professor at Auburn University, where he was on the faculty from 1997 until
2003. He earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1996. Brian
currently is past chair of the Auditing Section’s Auditing Standards
Committee, on which he served as chair from 2002–2003 (and worked
extensively with Kay Tatum). Brian’s research interests involve
decision-making aspects of strategic-systems auditing, business measurement,
negotiation, and risk management. During his tenure at Auburn,
Brian received four college/department teaching awards related to his
graduate-level courses on risk management and strategic-systems auditing. His
publications have been in various academic and professional publications. Prior
to obtaining his Ph.D., Brian’s work experience included a year-long
postgraduate internship with the FASB (Norwalk, CT), two years with Ernst &
Young (Indianapolis), and one year with LEXIS/NEXIS (Dayton, OH).
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Kay W. Tatum |
Kay W. Tatum is
an associate professor of accounting at the University of Miami in Coral
Gables, Florida, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate auditing courses.
She joined the University of Miami’s accounting department in 1986 after
earning her Ph.D. at Texas Tech University. She is a two-time recipient of the
University’s School of Business Administration’s Excellence in
Teaching Award. In 2002, she received the University’s Excellence in
Teaching Award. She was a member of the AAA’s Auditing Standards Committee
from 1999–2003, having served as chairperson from 2000–2002. She was
a member of the AICPA’s Task Force that developed SAS No. 84,
Communications between Predecessor and Successor Auditors, and a member
of the Joint Working Group, a committee of practitioners, standard setters, and
academics from the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. that studied the audit
methodologies of the large accounting firms and explored how they are applying
the audit risk model. She is a co-author of Developments in the Audit
Methodologies of Large Accounting Firms, a monograph written by the
academic members of the Joint Working Group. Kay is a member of the
AICPA’s International Auditing Standards Subcommittee. She is a
contributing author to the book Audit Committees: A Guide for Directors,
Management, and Consultants, which is published by Aspen Law &
Business. She was a member of the IIA’s Research on Internal Audit team,
which developed the monograph entitled Research Opportunities in Internal
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