Doctoral Consortium Speakers
CHRIS AGOGLIA is the Richard H. Simpson Endowed Professor at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on decision making and decision maker behavior in accounting and auditing contexts. He has published in a number of journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. Chris is the past Senior Editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and is currently a Consulting Editor for the journal. He has previously served as an Editor for Contemporary Accounting Research and an Associate Editor for Behavioral Research In Accounting, and on the Editorial Boards of journals including The Accounting Review and Accounting and Organizations and Society. He also serves on the Academic Review Committee for the Center for Audit Quality’s Access to Audit Personnel Program.
SPENCER ANDERSON is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published work in top tier journals (e.g., The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Reporting, and Accounting, Organizations, and Society), and his research portfolio centers on standard setting issues. He has presented work to the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) and members of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”).
TIM BAUER is an associate professor at the University of Waterloo; he was previously an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo (2018-2021) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011-2018). His research is behavioral (mainly experiments, but interviews and surveys too) and largely focuses on various aspects of relationships within the audit context, as they relate to auditors and other auditors (e.g., advisors), teams, non-audit specialists, clients, regulators, and the accounting profession. He has published research in a number of the top accounting journals and is currently an Editorial Board Member for Contemporary Accounting Research and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. He received his PhD from the University of Waterloo in 2011 and is a Chartered Professional Accountant, CA (Ontario). He was previously a senior at EY in both audit and tax.
LORI BHASKAR is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University-Bloomington. Lori got her PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014. She studies judgment and decision-making in accounting with specific interests in audit quality, audit regulation, internal control audits, and professional skepticism. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Auditing: A Practice of Theory & Research. Lori currently serves on the editorial boards of Accounting, Organizations and Society, Auditing: A Practice of Theory & Research, and Accounting Horizons. Prior to academia, she was an auditor at Deloitte in Milwaukee, WI.
ROBERT BLOOMFIELD is a Professor of Accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Since beginning his career in 1991, Prof. Bloomfield has used laboratory experiments to study financial markets and investor behavior, and has also published in all major business disciplines, including finance, accounting, marketing, organization behavior, and operations research. Prof. Bloomfield served as director of the Financial Accounting Standards Research Initiative (FASRI), an activity of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and is currently an editor of an a special issue of Journal of Accounting Research dedicated to Registered Reports of Empirical Research. Prof. Bloomfield has recently taken on editorship of Journal of Financial Reporting, which is pioneering an innovative editorial processes intended to broaden the range of research methods used in Accounting, improving the quality of research execution, and encouraging honest reporting of findings. As the Johnson School's Faculty Director of eLearning, Prof. Bloomfield oversees the development of online courses and helps faculty make best use of technology in traditional courses. He is the author of the award-winning eBook, What Counts and What Gets Counted, which can be downloaded for free online, and has used the book as the basis for online courses offered through eCornell, as well as award-winning teaching in Johnson's Executive MBA programs.
MARGARET H. CHRIST, PH.D, CIA is a Professor of Accounting, and the PwC Faculty Fellow in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses broadly on management control systems, including the effects of control systems and incentive compensation on employee behavior, the implementation of control systems in inter-organizational collaborations, and internal audit practices. Her research is published in peer-reviewed journals such as The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons, and The Journal of Management Accounting Research. Dr. Christ currently serves as an editor for The Accounting Review and Accounting Horizons and has previously served as an editor for the Journal of Management Accounting Research. She serves on the editorial boards of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, the Journal of Information Systems, and the Journal of Management Accounting Research. Dr. Christ serves on the AAA COSO Committee, providing insights to the recent revisions of the COSO Internal Control Integrated Framework, and was recently named to the Institute of Internal Auditors Committee of Research and Education Advisors. The Institute of Internal Auditors, Institute of Management Accountants, and Institute for Fraud Prevention have provided grants to support her research that addresses issues important to the profession.
RYAN GUGGENMOS is an assistant professor of accounting at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research focuses on how biases in human behavior affect decision processes in accounting contexts and has been published in leading accounting journals, such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, and Contemporary Accounting Research. He currently teaches managerial accounting and reporting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Guggenmos received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his BA from Seattle University. He has been the recipient of many awards, including two Research Advisory Board grants from the Center for Audit Quality and the Class of 1992 Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching given by the Cornell Johnson MBA Class of 2020. Guggenmos is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Washington. Prior to his doctoral studies he worked as an auditor in the Seattle office of Deloitte and Touche, LLP.
KRIS HOANG is an Associate Professor at The University of Alabama's Culverhouse School of Accountancy. She studies the communications and relationships between professional auditors, company managers and directors, policymakers, and accounting academic researchers. Dr. Hoang was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Major: Accounting, Minor: French Studies) and Master of Accounting from the University of Waterloo, and a PhD in Accounting from the University of Alberta. Dr. Hoang is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA-CA Ontario) and worked in assurance at Deloitte in Toronto. She also held an assistant professor position at Tulane University. Dr. Hoang's lifelong interest in learning about accounting began when, at the age of 6, she got in the habit of invoicing her parents for her weekly allowance (as justification for greater amounts when she completed more chores) and maintaining detailed records of financial accumulation in her piggy bank.
TAMARA LAMBERT is an associate professor at Lehigh University where she holds the Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Professorship of Accounting. Her research focuses on the impact of mental perceptions and inferences on accountability system judgments, and evaluating and improving accountability systems and outcomes. She has published in Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and other accounting journals. She has presented her work to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and it has been featured in popular business press outlets and blogs (e.g., Marketwatch, CFO Magazine, Columbia University Blue Sky Blog). She serves or has served on the editorial boards of Accounting Horizons, Behavioral Research in Accounting and Issues in Accounting Education and is an associate editor for Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory.
JUSTIN LEIBY is an Associate Professor of Accountancy and Professor Ken Perry Faculty Fellow and Disruption & Innovation Scholar at the Gies College of Business at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Justin’s research focuses on judgment and decision making—including consultation, skepticism, and more broadly the incentives and motivations of professionals. His research has been published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations and Society. Justin earned a doctorate at the University of Illinois and undergraduate degrees at the University of Pittsburgh. One of Justin’s professional pleasures is writing short bios about himself in the third person.
BERTRAND MALSCH, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Smith School of Business at Queens University. He is a member of the Quebec bar and the director of the CPA Ontario Centre for Corporate Reporting & Professionalism. His research is informed by socio-organizational perspectives, and focuses on a variety of contemporary issues, including the impact of audit regulation on professionalism, the effect of standard setting processes, the realization of the public interest, and the construction of auditor identity. He is associate editor at Accounting, Organizations, and Society, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. Bertrand serves as a member of the Cannabis Oversight Committee established by the Cannabis Regulation Act in Quebec in 2019. Bertrand is also a board member of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association and current Chair of the Research Committee.
MARIETTA PEYTCHEVA is a Professor at Lehigh University. Her research interests are in the areas of judgment and decision making in accounting and auditing contexts, and business ethics. She examines the effects of regulatory, governance, and social pressures on auditor behavior; and the effects of communication on auditor and investor judgment. Her research has been published in Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and Accounting Horizons, and her research awards include the 2019 Auditing Mid-Year Meeting Best Paper Award and the 2014 Behavioral Research in Accounting Best Paper Award. She is the recipient of a Center for Audit Quality research grant, and her research has been featured in media outlets (e.g., Accounting Today, CFO.com, Columbia University Blue Sky Blog). She serves on the editorial review boards of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, and Frontiers in Psychology.
KRISTINA RENNEKAMP is a Professor of Accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Her research examines financial accounting from a behavioral perspective, and particularly how biases affect managers' disclosure decisions and users' judgments with respect to those disclosures. She has taught financial accounting in the one- and two-year residential MBA programs in Ithaca, and in Cornell's Executive MBA of the Americas. She is the recipient of numerous awards. Her research has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Foundations and Trends in Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial Reporting, and the Review of Accounting Studies. She received her MS and PhD from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Prior to joining Johnson at Cornell, she was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ROSH SINHA is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He joined IU in 2019 after getting his PhD from the University of Washington. Broadly, Rosh's research focuses on individual judgment and decision-making in financial reporting and capital markets. Specifically, Rosh is interested in the effect of emerging technology on how investors acquire and integrate accounting information and the impact of accounting standards and regulations on investor and manager decisions.
CHAD STEFANIAK is an Associate Professor at University of South Carolina. Stefaniak joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina in the fall of 2016. He previously served as the School of Accounting department chair for his alma mater, Central Michigan University. His teaching interests and experience include both auditing and accounting information systems. His research focuses on examining the judgments and decisions made by auditors, specifically improving audit quality, auditor ethics and auditor-client negotiations. He has published research manuscripts in various journals, including The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons and Behavioral Research in Accounting. His research has been covered by the popular press (e.g., The Huffington Post and Agenda Week) and has led to opportunities to provide expert witness testimony. Stefaniak received his B.S.B.A. from Central Michigan University (2002), and his MACC (2003) and Ph.D. (2009) from the University of Alabama. He is also a licensed certified public accountant in the state of Michigan.
KEN TROTMAN is a Scientia Professor at UNSW Sydney.He has held visiting appointments at a range of overseas institutions including Cornell University, the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His main current research interests are concerned with judgment and decision making in accounting. He has a particular interest in the judgments made by auditors. Ken has published in leading international research journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and Journal of Management Accounting Research. Ken was the 1993/94 President of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ). In 1998 he received the AFAANZ 'Outstanding Contribution to the Accounting Literature' award and later awarded life membership of AFAANZ. In 1998 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He received the 2000/2001 'Outstanding Auditing Educator Award' from the Audit Section of the American Accounting Association; the 2008 Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award from the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association; the 2009 Notable (Lifetime) Contribution Award in Behavioral Accounting Literature from the American Accounting Association; and 2014 Behavioral Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor Award.Ken was inducted into the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame in 2011 and was an ARC Professorial Fellow 2011–2015. In 2018 he received the UNSW Business School Outstanding Research (Inaugural Professorial) Award. In the Australia Day 2020 Honours he was appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to education, particularly to accounting.
BEN VAN LANDUYT is an assistant professor at The University of Arizona. He is originally from Springfield, Missouri. He studied accounting at Ole Miss before working as an auditor for PwC. After spending a few years in practice, he completed his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin. He uses experimental methods, particularly experimental economics, to investigate topics related to determinants (including the role of auditing) and consequences of financial reporting outcomes.
DONNIE YOUNG is an Associate Professor in Accounting at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. His research focuses on the judgment and decision-making of those involved in the financial reporting process. Areas of particular interest include identifying factors that influence how financial reporting managers deal with estimation uncertainty, understanding how auditors' goals and decision processes influence their evaluation of complex estimates, and how the format and content financial reports influences investors’ decision making. He has published in Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Journal of Business Ethics, and Accounting Horizons. Professor Young teaches financial accounting in the undergraduate and graduate programs as well as a doctoral seminar on experimental research in accounting. His hobbies include spending time and traveling with his wife and four kids, hiking and backpacking, playing pickleball and tennis, and watching movies.
YAO YU received her doctoral degree from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She joined UMass Amherst in 2015. Yao’s research examines how investors and managers use financial information in their decision-making. Some specific research topics include companies’ ESG disclosures, internal control reporting, and financial information comparability. Yao’s teaching interest is in financial accounting, at both undergraduate and graduate levels and in both online and in-person modes. She spends her spare time (if any) practicing violin with her 5-year-old daughter.
AMANDA WINN is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas. Her research investigates the effects of (1) regulatory initiatives and (2) features of the new disclosure environment on those who use financial accounting information, including investors and auditors. Amanda received her PhD from the University of Washington and has previously taught at Portland State University and the University of Illinois. Prior to entering academia, Amanda worked as an auditor at KPMG.