Vice President, Academic

Rick Hatfield is the EY Professor of Accounting in the Culverhouse School of Accountancy at The University of Alabama and a CPA in the state of Texas. He received a B.B.A. and M.S. Accounting from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. from The University of Florida. Professor Hatfield’s primary research interests have been in the area of experimental auditing and tax. He has published several articles in academic journals including: The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, The Journal of the American Taxation Association, and Behavioral Research in Accounting. Dr. Hatfield is currently the senior editor of Behavioral Research in Accounting, a past editor for Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and on the editorial board of Contemporary Accounting Research and Accounting, Organizations and Society.

Vice President, Practice

Dan Sunderland serves as Deloitte’s National Leader – Audit and Assurance Services. Dan leads the group which is responsible for developing our policies and methodology (on a US and a global basis), engaging in standard setting, and consulting with the field. In addition, the group has significant interaction with those responsible for technology, learning and innovation. Dan also serves as the Chairman of The Research Advisory Board of the Center for Audit Quality. Dan has over thirty-four years of public accounting experience, serving many of Deloitte’s most complex multinational clients in manufacturing, financial services, life sciences and high technology. He has significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, including due diligence and purchase accounting; equity compensation; employee benefit plan structures and accounting; and other complex accounting areas. Dan is a graduate of Dickinson College, and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Secretary

Susan Scholz is a Professor and Harper Fellow at the University of Kansas. She earned a B.A. from the University of Utah, a California C.P.A. while working for Deloitte, and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California before beginning her academic career at Kansas. Her research focuses on public policy issues involving restatements and auditor choice. It has appeared in a variety of accounting and law journals, received the 2006 Deloitte Wildman Award, and been commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Department and the Center for Audit Quality. She is currently on the The Accounting Review editorial board, an associate editor for Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and previously was an associate editor for Accounting Horizons. She teaches financial accounting at all levels and has won several teaching and service awards. She has served as the Trueblood Seminar Committee Chair, Co-chair for the Auditing Midyear Meeting, on several outstanding paper award committees, and has been a presenter and mentor at the AAA/Deloitte and Auditing Midyear Doctoral Consortia.