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Stanley F. Biggs to receive Stanley F.
Biggs will be presented with the Auditing Section’s
Outstanding Dissertation Chair award during the Section’s
luncheon at the AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Professor
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Biggs
is KPMG Peat Marwick Professor of Accounting at the University of
Connecticut. His Ph.D. is 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, the University of
Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Southern California.
He has also served as a visiting professor at 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 has served on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review,
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Behaviorial
Research in Accounting, Accounting Horizons, and Advances
in Accounting. His research has investigated decision behavior
of auditors, financial analysts and bankers involved in complex
tasks and has been published in The Accounting Review;
Journal of Accounting Research; Management Science;
Accounting, Organizations and Society; Auditing: A
Journal of Practice & Theory; Artificial Intelligence
Magazine; International Journal of Intelligent Systems,
Expert Systems Review; and Management Information
Systems Quarterly. His current research interests involve
developing theories and descriptive evidence of auditor expertise.