Following the Spring 2021 Council Meeting, Randal (Randy) J. Elder was elected as the 2021-2022 Council Chair-Elect.

Randy Elder is Professor and Head of the Department of Accounting & Finance at North Carolina State University Greensboro. Prof. Elder was senior associate dean in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University from 2009-2013, and previously was director of the Lubin School of Accounting at Syracuse Whitman from 2003-2009. He earned his doctorate in 1993 from Michigan State University. Prof. Elder teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on auditing practice and theory as well as fraud examination. His research interests including audit sampling, audit confirmations, audit pricing, and government and nonprofit auditing. His research has been published in various accounting journals, including The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. He is an editor of Issues in Accounting Education and serves on the editorial boards of Accounting Horizons and the Journal of Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting.