Auditing Section Officer Election2005–2006The Auditing Section is holding elections for Vice President—Academic and Secretary. There are two candidates for each of those offices. The election will also confirm one candidate for the office of Vice President-Practice. Electronic voting will continue from October 6, 2005 through November 30, 2005. Below are biographies for each of the candidates. You can vote online at: http://aaahq.org/ballots/Aud2005/ballot2005.cfm
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Mark E. Peecher, C.P.A. Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and a Deloitte & Touche Teaching Fellow at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He holds B.S., M.A.S., and Ph.D. degrees in accountancy from UIUC. Prior to returning to his alma mater, Mark was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington from 1994 to 1998. A highly regarded instructor, Mark teaches undergraduate and doctoral courses that focus on assurance and financial statement auditing and has chaired or served on several doctoral dissertation committees.
Larry Rittenberg is the Ernst & Young Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a member of the auditing section since its founding and has twice served on the Auditing Standards Committee of the section. He is currently the Chair of COSO and is active in developing improved guidance related to internal control. Before that he served as the AAA's representative to COSO. He has served as Vice-President of Finance of the AAA and was active in developing an audit committee and
budgeting processes for the AAA. He has been President of the Institute of Internal Auditor's Research Foundation and led the development of a monograph identifying research opportunities in internal auditing. Before that he served as Vice-Chairman of the Professional Practices of the IIA and helped develop the new professional practices framework for internal auditing. Larry's recent research activities have focused on internal audit outsourcing and corporate governance. Not surprisingly, his new research focus is on implementing and evaluating effective internal controls.
Julia Lee Higgs is an associate professor in the School of Accounting at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) where she has worked since she earned her Ph.D. in 1998 at the University of South Carolina. Her master's and bachelor's degrees are from The University of Tennessee. Julia is also a licensed CPA. She worked as a legislative auditor for the state of Tennessee and as the chief accountant for the Nashville, Tennessee school system before returning to school to pursue a Ph.D. Julia currently teaches an auditing seminar in the Ph.D. program at FAU in addition to auditing classes at the undergraduate and graduate level. She has regularly taught financial accounting, courses in accounting regulation, and has led four international accounting study tours to South America. She currently serves as the director of the master's program. Julia's publication record reflects an interest in scholarly, applied, and education research. Her primary areas of interest for accounting research include audit quality and professional workplace issues. Her work has appeared in Behavioral Research in Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, and Advances in Accounting, and the Financial Analysts Journal. Julia has been an active member of the American Accounting Association at the section, region, and national levels. At the national level, she has served on the membership committee and as a member of council. In the auditing section she has served on the communications and nominating committees and chaired the membership committee. Julia will be coordinating the Auditing Section activities for the 2006 Annual Meeting.
Billy Soo is an Associate Professor at the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting and Information Systems from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and joined the Boston College faculty in 1990. Billy's research interests focus on audit markets and tenure, disclosure incentives, and the response of managers and markets to changes in regulations. He has published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and was on the editorial board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. Billy has served on several AAA committees, including most recently as Program Co-chair of the 2005 Auditing Section Midyear Meeting and the New Faculty Consortium.
Trevor Stewart joined Deloitte in Johannesburg, where he became an audit partner and also led the national Computer Audit practice. Prior to becoming a partner, he spent several years with Deloitte in London, serving large audit clients as well as participating in development projects. In the United States, he became the global project director for the development of AuditSystem/2, Deloitte's audit methodology and technology platform. He is currently a member of the steering group overseeing the development of its successor and spends a significant amount of time working with the developers. Before the dot-com bubble burst, Trevor was a leader in the development of the global organization's e-Business services. He has a special interest and is actively involved in the development of quantitative and computer-based audit techniques and methodologies. He is a member of the Auditing Section's Practice Advisory Council (PAC). Trevor is a Chartered Accountant (South Africa) and has a BSc (Hons) degree in mathematics from the University of Cape Town.