Officer Nominations for 2004–2005 |
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The Section is holding elections for Vice President–Academic and Treasurer. There are two candidates for each office. Voting is online from October 1, 2004 through November 30, 2004. Below are biographies for each of the candidates. You can vote online at: http://aaahq.org/ballots/Aud2004/ballot2004.cfm Nominees for Vice President–Academic (President-Elect)
Nominees for Treasurer
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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 and ethics research, Ali has published regularly in Accounting and Business Research, The Accounting Review, Advances in Accounting, Auditing: a Journal of Practice and 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 AAA's publications The Accounting Review and Auditing: a Journal of Practice and 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), the Outstanding Auditing Dissertation Award Committee (Chair, 2001–2002), the Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award Selection Committee (Chair, 2003–2004), and the Outstanding Service to the Auditing Profession Award Committee (member, 2004–2005) of the American Accounting Association.
Ray Whittington (Ph.D., CPA, CMA, CIA) is the Ledger & Quill Director of the School of Accountancy and MIS at DePaul University. Prior to joining the faculty at DePaul, he was the Director of the School of Accountancy at San Diego State University. From 1989 through 1991, Ray was the Director of Auditing Research for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and he previously was on the audit staff of KPMG. Ray was a member of Auditing Standards Board of the AICPA (1998–2002). He has previously served as a member of the Accounting and Review Services Committee of the AICPA, the Board of Regents of the Institute of Internal Auditors, and chairman of the Auditing Standards Committee of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association. His research has been published in Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Abacus, The Journal of Accountancy, and Financial Executive. Ray also has published a number of textbooks and monographs.
Kathryn Kadous is an Associate Professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, where she teaches auditing, financial accounting, and a doctoral seminar in research methods. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Professor Kadous' research focuses on judgment and decision-making issues in accounting, with a focus on how auditors' and managers' incentives influence their cognitive processes. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. She serves on the editorial board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory.
Mark Taylor is an associate professor of accounting at Creighton University's College of Business Administration in Omaha, NE where he holds the John P. Begley Endowed Chair in Accounting and teaches courses in auditing and fraud examination. Mark has previously held appointments in the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business, and the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. In the Spring of 2004, he was a visiting associate professor in the Brigham Young University School of Accounting and Information Systems. Mark earned his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1994 and his research has been published in Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and Accounting Horizons among others. Under his service as editor of the Auditing Section's newsletter The Auditor’s Report, the newsletter marked its 25th anniversary and was transitioned from paper format to electronic format. He is also former associate editor of the newsletter (1997–1999). Mark serves on several editorial boards and has received the Vernon K. Zimmerman Outstanding Paper Award from the Center for International Education and Research and a teaching award from Beta Alpha Psi.