VP - Practice

Scott McHone, CPA
Dr. Scott P. McHone, CPA, PhD has been providing accounting solutions since 1986. Along with being a Certified Public Accountant, Scott is also a Certified Forensic Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant, and has also earned a certificate in Six Sigma. Scott owns and operates a CPA firm in California and is also the Executive Director of the American Board of Forensic Accounting.

Nick Gibbons, Citadel LLC
Nick Gibbons is a practitioner of forensic accounting and financial statement analysis, with extensive experience in independent research, education, and investing. He has successfully identified numerous companies which later reported significant accounting errors, material weaknesses, and in the worst cases accounting fraud. His research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, and on Bloomberg. Nick is currently an analyst with Citadel LLC.

Secretary

Pat Johnson, Canisius College
Patricia A. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Accounting in the Richard J. Wehle School of Business at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. She serves as the Program Coordinator for the Master of Science in Forensic Accounting, a degree program that she was instrumental in establishing at the college. Pat has been a member of the Forensic Accounting Section since the section was established. She served on the inaugural Nominating Committee for the section, as regional director in 2011-2012 and as section webmaster. Pat was paper chair for the 2013 FA Midyear conference, and served as Program Chair for the 2016 FA Midyear Conference in Charlotte. The 2016 conference set a record for attendance and attracted sponsorships from the AICPA, PwC and IDEA. In the summer of 2015, Pat was appointed to serve out the term of Secretary to fill a vacancy created after the section elections.

Lori Fuller, West Chester University
Lori Fuller is the Associate Dean (Interim) of the College of Business & Public Affairs at West Chester University. She is a Professor and former Chairperson of the Department of Accounting. Her research interests are in auditing, ethics and forensic accounting; whereas her teaching interests are auditing and accounting systems at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She has published in BRIA, the Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting, Strategic Finance and Management Accounting Quarterly. Lori had the honor to co-direct the 18th Annual AAA Ethics Research Symposium. The Symposium.

Treasurer

Christine Cheng, Louisiana State University
Christine Cheng is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University. She has published articles in Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly, Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management, the Journal of Legal Tax Research, Tax Notes, the Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting, and Strategic Finance.

Dick Riley, West Virginia University
Richard A. (Dick) Riley, Jr., is the Louis F. Tanner Distinguished Professor of Public Accounting at West Virginia University. He is also the Director of Research for the Institute for Fraud Prevention. Dr. Riley has been recognized nationally for his contributions in forensic accounting and fraud examination: The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) 2008 Educator of the Year; 2012 ACFE Hubbard Outstanding Achievement Award*; 2009 American Accounting Association Innovations in Accounting Education Award; The 2013 Max Block Award* from the CPA Journal; the 2013 American Accounting Association FIA Section Outstanding Research Manuscript*. Dr. Riley is a CPA, CFE, CFF, forensic accountant and fraud examiner who has developed and implemented fraud and forensic accounting education programs for the United States National Institute of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service. Since 2002, Dr. Riley has performed expert financial analysis and litigation support services, offering deposition and trial testimony. He has published four books and almost 50 research papers, including manuscripts in Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, among other top quality journals.

AAA Council

Larry Crumbley, Louisiana State University
Dr. Crumbley is the author or co-author of at least 350 major articles and many newspaper columns and has been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Wall Street Journal, and many other newspapers, radio and television stations. He is an author or co-author of at least 55 books and many chapters/contributions to other publications. He started and was editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting: Auditing, Fraud, & Risk from 1999 through 2008. He created and is editor of The Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting. His impact upon the accounting profession is illustrated by his organization and subsequent election to the President of the American Taxation Association when the American Accounting Association would not develop specialty groups. He served on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of ATA for many years, and have served on the advisory board of the Accounting Review. In 1994, he was awarded the first ATA Outstanding Service Award. He has served as chairman or member of many major committees of professional organizations such as the AICPA, AAA, ATA, NTA, etc. With his election as Chair of the Teaching & Curriculum section of AAA for 2007-2008 and his creation of the Forensic and Investigative Accounting section in 2008, he is one of only a few who have been in charge of three major sections of AAA.

Cindy Durtschi, DePaul University
Dr. Cindy Durtschi is the recent past president of the Forensic Accounting Section. Within the section, she has also held the jobs of secretary and president elect. Her research appears in the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Forensic Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education as well as other accounting and finance journals. Dr. Durtschi has received numerous teaching awards including the Gus Economos Distinguished Teaching Award from DePaul’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business in 2013, and the 2006 American Accounting Association Innovation in Audit Education Award for her published case in forensic accounting, “The Tallahassee BeanCounters: A Problem-Based Learning Case in Forensic Auditing.” Dr. Durtschi currently serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research, Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Free Enterprise and Issues in Accounting Education.

Nominating Committee (4 members)

J L Souza, Penn State University, Abington
J.L. Souza is an Assistant Professor at Penn State University, Abington. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting and Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly. She has also served in various AAA Meeting capacities including discussant, moderator, and ad hoc reviewer.

Joe Wall, Marquette University
Joe Wall is an Assistant Professor at Marquette University. He is also the founder and managing member of Real Estates in Motion LLC. (Real Estate Investments), and Ideas in Motion LLC (Securities Trading Firm). He received the 2016 Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics. He has published articles in a number of journals including the Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting, the American Journal of Business Education, and the CPA Journal. He has also served as a reviewer and discussant for the AAA Annual Meeting.

Renee Flasher, Ball State University
Renee Flasher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Accounting in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University. Her research interests include the regulation of audit firms and healthcare related topics especially healthcare fraud. Her publications include contributions to Fraud Magazine, the flagship publication of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. She actively participates in various American Accounting Association regional, sectional including Auditing and Forensic, and national conferences. She has been a Certified Fraud Examiner since 2004.

Joseph C. Ugrin, Kansas State University
Joseph C. Ugrin is an Associate Professor of Accounting and holds the Robin Hagans Maupin Endowed Chair in Business at Kansas State University. Dr. Ugrin researches behavioral issues in accounting and information systems with a focus on fraudulent financial reporting and computer misuse and abuse. He has published research in respected journals such as Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting, Communications of the AIS, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, and others. Dr. Ugrin is actively involved in the AICPA, the IMA, and the AAA. Since 2011, he has served on the AICPA’s Precertification Education Executive Committee (PcEEC) which aims to bridge academics and practice. He served as PcEEC committee chair in 2015 and has chaired a number of sub-committees including the Effective Learning Strategies awards committee, Distinguished Educator awards committee, and others. Dr. Ugrin is also a member of the AAA’s behavioral, forensic, management accounting, and information systems sections and actively serves as a peer reviewer for the journals offered by those sections.

Marcus Odom, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Marcus D. Odom is a Full Professor and the Deloitte & Touche Faculty Fellow in the School of Accountancy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He served as the director of the School of Accountancy from 2004 to 2014 and is currently serving as the director of the Master of Accountancy program and director of the Internship program. Dr. Odom’s research includes papers published in highly respected journals, to include, Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting, and other academic journals. He served on the Illinois CPA Society Board of Directors from 2012 through 2015. He is actively involved in the American Accounting Association (AAA) in several sections, including the Information Systems (IS) Section and the Accounting Program Leaders Group (APLG). For the IS section, he has served in the past as a Regional Coordinator, a member of the Notable Contributions to the Literature Committee, Historian, Treasurer, and Program Chair for the 2008 Mid-year Meeting. He is also a member of the Forensic Accounting Section, Auditing Section, and Behavioral Section.

Jim DiGabriele, Montclair State
James A. DiGabriele, Ph.D./D.P.S., CPA/ABV/CFF: is a Professor of Accounting and Chair of the Department of Accounting Law & Taxation at Montclair State University. His manuscripts have appeared in numerous academic and professional journals including, Accounting Horizons, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Legal Economics, Journal of Forensic Accounting, Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting, The CPA Journal, Journal of Accountancy, Journal of Business Valuation & Economic Loss Analysis, Journal of Applied Accounting Research and Accounting Research Journal. He has qualified as an expert in forensic accounting in Federal and State courts.

Bill Dilla, Iowa State University
William N. Dilla, Ph.D., CPA is the Union Pacific / Charles B. Handy Professor of Accounting and Associate Chair of the Accounting and Finance Departments at Iowa State University. He teaches courses in auditing and fraud examination. His research focuses on information display effects with respect to accounting-related judgments, the relationship between internal audit activities and information security effectiveness, fraud in online environments, and management control systems for corporate sustainability. He currently serves as an associate editor for the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems and the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research and is on the Editorial Board at the Journal of Information Systems. Bill is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), American Accounting Association (AAA), American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). He has served as Secretary of the AAA’s Auditing Section and as chair of the Section’s Education and Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award Committees. He is currently a member of the AAA Forensic Accounting Section Publications Committee.