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to the Table of Contents ERIC SPIRES WINS THE FIRST OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION
CHAIR AWARD
The Auditing Section has instituted a new award
which is presented in conjunction with the Outstanding Dissertation Award.
Eric Spires, dissertation chair for Cynthia Williams Turner, the Section's
Outstanding Dissertation Award winner, was presented the award at the Section's
lunch at the AAA annual meeting in Chicago. Eric is an Associate Professor
of Accounting at The Ohio State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Accountancy
at the University of Illinois in 1987. Prior to attending the University
of Illinois, he was a CPA on the staff of Touche, Ross & Co. (predecessor
firm to Deloitte and Touche). Professor Spires' research interests include
auditors' assessments of risk and evaluation of audit evidence, the role
of audits in financial markets, and effects of decision support systems
on decision making. His articles have appeared in Accounting Review;
Accounting, Organizations and Society; Journal of Accounting Literature;
Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting; Multivariate Behavioral
Research; and others. He serves on the editorial board of Auditing:
Journal of Practice & Theory and as an ad hoc reviewer for several
other journals. Professor Spires has won numerous teaching awards both
at Illinois and Ohio State. He was recently named the first Ernst &
Young Distinguished Teaching Fellow in Ohio States' Fisher College of Business.
Cynthia Williams Turner is the second Ph.D. student for whom Professor
Spires has served as dissertation chair. He has also served as a member
of several dissertation committees and team teaches a Ph.D. seminar on
auditing research.
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