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Accounting
The Katz Accounting Doctoral Program prepares graduates to succeed as accounting scholars and educators at top business schools in the United States and abroad. The program features rigorous coursework, thorough research training and close working relationships between doctoral students and faculty to prepare students to be leading accounting academics. Our graduates have an excellent track record of placements at research-oriented business schools and in succeeding in those environments.
All accounting doctoral students are provided with 4 years of financial support, with 3 of those years being appointments as a research assistant working with faculty members. The remaining year is provided in exchange for teaching development activities. This ensures that all graduates develop both excellent research and teaching skills.
Addressing the Growing Shortage of Accounting Faculty
In response to the growing shortage of academically-qualified university accounting faculty members, especially those with recent experience in the practice of auditing and tax, concerned practitioners, leaders from over 70 of the largest firms and 10 state CPA societies have joined together to fund the Accounting Doctoral Scholars (ADS) Program. The ADS Program is administered by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Foundation under the oversight of an Advisory Council. The initiating sponsors have committed financial support totaling nearly $16 million over an eight-year period for the Program. http://www.adsphd.org/faq.asp
Faculty
- Madeleine Carlin
- Harry Evans
- Mei Feng
- Vicky Hoffman
- Jocelyn Kaffunger
- Chan Li
- Donald Moser
- Nandu J. Nagarajan
- Prem Prakash
- Dhinu Srinivasan
- Karen Shastri
Doctoral Students
- Jason Brown
- Jeung-Yoon (Jen) Chang
- Sehan Kim
- Shuqing Luo
- George Gonzalez
- Patrick Martin
- Bryan Stikeleather
- Amy Yurko
Recent faculty hires
Mei Feng received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2005. Her paper with Carol Anilowski and Douglas J. Skinner titled "Is Guidance a Macro Factor? The Nature and Information Content of Aggregate Earnings Guidance" is in the September 2007 issue of Journal of Accounting and Economics.
Chan Li, received her PhD from the University of Kansas and joined the Katz accounting faculty in the Fall of 2007. Her paper "Does Client Importance Affect Auditor Independence at the Office Level? Empirical Evidence from Going Concern Opinions" is forth coming in Contemporary Accounting Research.
Recent doctoral student placements
Recent accounting doctoral students have secured placements at schools such as Boston College, Georgia Tech, Georgia State University, Georgetown University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Michigan, Northeastern University and Peking University