HARDI 2021 Archive / Invited Speaker List
Mary Barth, The Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting, Emerita, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford
Mary E. Barth is the Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting, Emerita at the Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (GSB). Professor Barth’s research is published in a variety of journals and has won several awards, including the American Accounting Association’s (AAA) Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award, the AAA’s Competitive Manuscript Award, and, on three occasions each, the AAA/Deloitte Wildman Medal Award and the Best Paper Award of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the AAA. She is Senior Editor of The Accounting Review and has previously served as an Editor. She has been the Accounting Department Editor of Management Science and Co-editor of the Journal of Financial Reporting, and served on the Editorial Boards of several other academic journals. Professor Barth is a recipient of the GSB’s MBA Distinguished Teaching Award, MSx Teaching Excellence Award, PhD Faculty Distinguished Service Award, and Robert J. Davis Award for a lifetime of service as a GSB faculty member. She served as a Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the GSB from 2002 until 2009.
Tentative Teaching Schedule: Financial, June 25 to June 29, 2021
Faculty webpage: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/mary-e-barth
Patricia Dechow, Robert R. Dockson Professor of Business Administration & Professor of Accounting, Marshall school of business, University of Southern California
Professor Dechow’s research focuses on accounting accruals, the quality and reliability of earnings, the use of earnings information in predicting stock returns, and the effect of analysts’ forecasts on investors’ perceptions of firm value. Dr. Dechow received her Ph.D. in accounting and finance at W. E. Simon School of Business Administration, the University of Rochester (supervised by Professor Ross Watts) in 1993. Patricia’s research is published in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting & Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Review, and the Journal of Financial Economics.
Tentative Teaching Schedule: Financial, June 13 to June 18, 2021
Faculty Webpage: https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/patricia-dechow
Mark DeFond, A. N. Mosich Chair in Accounting and Professor of Accounting, Marshall school of business, University of Southern California
Professor DeFond is the A. N. Mosich Chair of Accounting, Leventhal School of Accounting, University of Southern California. His research investigates issues in auditing, international financial reporting, and earnings management. He is a former Senior Editor of The Accounting Review and has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. He is a recipient of the AAA’s Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award, and a four-time MBA Golden Apple teaching award winner. Professor DeFond has held visiting professorships in Hong Kong and Singapore, and is currently the Associate Dean of Faculty at the Leventhal School of Accounting. He received his PhD at the University of Washington and prior to that worked for several years as an auditor with Deloitte (formerly Touche Ross) and is a California CPA (inactive).
Tentative Teaching Schedule: Auditing, June 8 to June 12, 2021
Faculty webpage: https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/mark-defond
W. Robert Knechel, Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar and Director of international accounting and auditing center, Warrington college of business, University of Florida
W. Robert Knechel, the Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar in Accounting in the Fisher School of Accounting, Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida, is the Senior Editor of The Accounting Review. Professor Knechel has previously served as the Senior Editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. He is the Director of the International Accounting and Auditing Center in the Fisher School of Accounting. He also holds the title of Research Professor in Accounting at the University of Auckland Business School in New Zealand and Research Professor in Auditing at KU Leuven in Belgium. He previously has held partial appointments at Maastricht University and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He currently serves on the Standing Advisory Group (SAG) of the PCAOB and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Audit Research in the Netherlands.
Professor Knechel’s research is published in a variety of journals. He received the Auditing Section’s Outstanding Educator Award in 2015. He has also received the award for the Best Paper Published in Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory in 2016 and was the recipient of the Auditing Section’s Notable Contribution in the Auditing Literature Award in 2017. He is a two-time recipient of the Auditing Section’s Outstanding Dissertation Supervision Award. He has been the recipient of the best paper award at a number of conferences. He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals including Contemporary Accounting Research. Finally, he is the author or co-author of a number of books in auditing.
Professor Knechel has held the title of the University of Florida Research Foundation Professor in recognition of his ongoing research and, in 2019, received the University of Florida Doctoral Mentoring Award. He is a multiple-year recipient of the International Educator of the Year Award granted jointly by the Warrington College of Business and the International Center at the University of Florida. Professor Knechel holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has also received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from BI Norwegian Business School.
Tentative Teaching Schedule: Auditing, June 8 to June 12, 2021
Faculty webpage: https://warrington.ufl.edu/directory/person/5296/
Terry Shevlin, Paul Merage Chair in Business Growth, Associate Dean of Research and Doctoral Programs, UCI Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine
Dr. Shevlin is a professor of accounting, Paul Merage Chair in Business Growth, Associate Dean of Research and Doctoral Programs at the UCI Paul Merage School of Business. He earned his PhD from Stanford University in 1986 and joined the faculty at the University of Washington where he worked for 26 years until joining UCI in the summer of 2012. He visited the University of Iowa in 1991-92. He held the Paul Pigott/Paccar Professor of Business Administration from 2004-2012. While at Washington he held various administrative position: faculty director of the PhD Program 1998-2006 and Accounting Department Chair from 2006-2012. He has served as editor on three academic journals: Journal of the American Taxation Association (1996-1999), Senior Editor, The Accounting Review (2002-2005) and Co-editor, Accounting Horizons (2009-2012) and on numerous editorial boards (including the top four accounting journals). He has published over 45 articles in the very top accounting and finance journals.
Tentative Teaching Schedule: Tax, June 19 to June 23, 2021
Faculty webpage: https://merage.uci.edu/research-faculty/faculty-directory/Terry-Shevlin.html
Richard Sloan, Accounting Circle Professor of Accounting & Professor of Accounting, Marshall school of business, University of Southern California
Professor Richard Sloan is an Accounting Circle Professor of Accounting at the University of Southern California. From 2006 to 2009, Sloan was a managing director in equity research at Barclays Global Investors. He has also held academic positions at the University of California at Berkeley (Haas School), the University of Michigan (Ross School) and the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School). While at the University of Michigan, Professor Sloan was the founding director of the Tozzi Electronic Business and Finance Center. Dr. Sloan received his Ph.D. from W.E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester.
Tentative Teaching Schedule: Financial, June 13 to June 18, 2021
Faculty webpage: https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/richard-sloan