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Candidates for Vice
President–Academics (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 in 1984, teaching auditing and managerial accounting. Urton received his Ph.D. from The University of Minnesota in 1985. He is a past recipient of a KPMG Peat Marwick Foundation Research Fellowship and a KPMG Peat Marwick Foundation Faculty Fellowship. 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. Professor Anderson is a Certified
Internal Auditor, and since 1994 has served on the Board of
Regents for the Institute of Internal Auditors. In 1997 he was
named Leon R. Radde Educator of the Year by The Institute of
Internal Auditors. Professor Anderson is also the co-editor of the
quarterly journal Internal Auditing. Urton served as the
Chairperson of the Auditing Section’s Midyear Meeting Program
Committee for 1997, and as a member of this committee in 1996 and
1998. 
STANLEY F. BIGGS Stanley F.
Biggs is KPMG Peat Marwick Professor of Accounting at the
University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Minnesota in 1978. He has been at the University of
Connecticut since 1984 and has also taught at the University of
Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has also
served as a visiting professor at the University of Southern
California, the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands, the
Norwegian School of Management, Sandvika, Norway, and the
University of New South Wales. At the University of Connecticut he
teaches auditing, financial accounting and a doctoral seminar in
judgment and decision-making. He is currently Coordinator of the
Accounting Department Ph.D. Program and previously served as
Director of the School of Business Ph.D. Program. In the past two
years he has served as chairman of two dissertations that won
outstanding dissertation awards (Karla Johnstone, Auditing Section
award; and Jay Thibodeau, Accounting, Organizations and Behavior
Section award). Candidates for Treasurer 
MARK S. BEASLEY Mark S.
Beasley, Ph.D., CPA, is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Accounting in the College of Management at North Carolina State
University. Mark joined the NC State faculty in August 1994 after
completing his Ph.D. in Accounting at Michigan State University.
Before pursuing his Ph.D., Mark was a Technical Manager in the
Auditing Standards Division of the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants (AICPA) in New York City where he worked
closely with the Auditing Standards Board. Prior to that, he was
an Audit Manager with Ernst & Young in Nashville, Tennessee.
He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting at Auburn
University. 
DENNIS M. HANNO Dennis M. Hanno is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Matters at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a faculty member in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems. Before his current position, he was a faculty member at Boston College. Dennis holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Western New England College, and the University of Massachusetts. His primary teaching responsibilities are in the area of auditing and assurance services, and he has also taught financial accounting, accounting theory, and taxation courses. His primary research interests include decision making in auditing and other accounting contexts, accounting education issues, and ethical decision making. Dennis has published in a number of academic and professional journals, including Behavioral Research in Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, Management Accounting, and the International Journal of Business Studies. Dennis spent the last year in a professional development experience with the Economic and Financial Consulting practice of Arthur Andersen. He has served the American Accounting Association in a number of capacities, including Northeast Regional Chair of both the Auditing and Teaching and Curriculum Sections, co-coordinator of the 1998 ABO Research Conference, member of the Northeast Region’s Steering Committee, and member of the editorial board of Issues in Accounting Education. He is the only educator on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants, and is a member of the AICPA’s Curriculum and Instruction in Accounting Education subcommittee.
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