BBA University of New Brunswick, Saint John (1976)
Academic Expertise
audit
financial accounting
Positions Held
Chapman University, Research Professor, September 2020 – current
University of San Diego, Distinguished Professor, September 2012 – August 2020
University of Washington, Emeritus Professor, September 2012 – current
University of Washington, Professor, September 2003 – August 31, 2012
Visiting Nanyang Professor, Nanyang University, Singapore, 2009 – 2010
University of Washington, Associate Professor, September 1998 – 2003
University of Washington, Assistant Professor, December 1991 – August 1998
INSEAD, Fontainebleau, FR, Visiting Professor, January – March 2001
Indiana University, Visiting Assistant Professor, January – May 1997
Duke University, Instructor, Fall 1988, Fall 1989, Fall 1991
University of Alberta, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1982 – 1987
University of Alberta, Lecturer, 1977 – 1981
Working Papers
“Asking the Right Questions: Does the Phrasing of Auditors’ Client Inquiry Matter?” (with Mary Durkin and Sarah Lyon), Benefitted from a Center for Audit Quality Research Grant (2020-202.
Honors and Awards
Chapman University
Center for Audit Quality Research Grant (2020-2021)
University of San Diego
Center for Audit Quality Research Grant (2017-2018)
Senior Faculty Research Award (2014)
JMAR Best Paper Award (2013)
University of Washington
Deloitte & Touche Professor of Accounting, University of Washington (2004-2012)
PricewaterhouseCoopers IFRS Ready Grant (2008-2009)
MBA Professor of the Quarter (Fall 2008)
PAACAR Award for Teaching Excellence (2004)
William and Helen Fowler Award for Special Achievement (2004)
American Accounting Association, ABO Section Outstanding Dissertation Award for Supervision of Brooke Elliott’s Dissertation (2003)
American Accounting Association, ABO Section Outstanding Dissertation Award for Supervision of Kim Sawers’ Dissertation (2002)
MBA Core Professor of the Quarter (Autumn 2002)
Marguerite Reimers Accounting Fund Fellow (2002-2004)
Gregory Fellow, University of Washington (1999, 2001)
Outstanding Instructor, Evening MBA Class (Fall 2001)
American Accounting Association, ABO Section Outstanding Dissertation Award for Supervision of Lisa Sedor’s Dissertation (2001)
Graduate School Fund Research Grant (1993)
American Accounting Association, ABO Section Outstanding Dissertation Award (1992)
Academic Service
Chair, Steering Committee to recommend next editor of The Accounting Review, AAA, August 2020 – June 2023
Member, AAA Publications Committee, August 2020 – June 2023
ABO Dissertation Award Committee, 2021
Editor’s Panel and Visiting Faculty, AAA New Faculty Consortium, January 2020
Center for Audit Quality, Access to Auditors Review Board, 2017 – 2019
Organized AAA ABO Doctoral Consortium, October 2009
Visiting Faculty Speaker, AAA Auditing Doctoral Consortium, January 2008
Visiting Faculty Speaker, CAAA/CAR Doctoral Consortium, November 2007
Visiting Faculty Speaker, AAA Doctoral Consortium, Lake Tahoe, June 2005
Invited Speaker, AAA ABO Midyear Meeting, October 2005
