Accounting Faculty
Professors
Paul R. Brown
Professor of Accounting; Dean, College of Business and Economics. B.A., Franklin and Marshall College; M.P.A., Ph.D., University of Texas/Austin. Research interests: financial statement analysis; FASB/SEC policy analysis; international reporting and analysis; earnings measurement and management; managing earnings expectations.
Parveen P. Gupta
Professor of Accounting; Department Chair. B.Com. (Honors), LL.B., University of Delhi; M.B.A., University of Connecticut; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Teaching areas: Corporate governance and business risk management; financial reporting and valuation. Research interests: Market reaction to control weakness disclosures under Sarbanes-Oxley Act; management reporting on internal control; corporate governance and firm performance; audit committee effectiveness and quality of financial reporting; internal auditing.
Gopal Krishnan, CPA, CMA, CISA
Professor of Accounting; Joseph R. Perella and Amy M. Perella Chair. D. Com., Indian Merchants' Chamber; M.B.A., Sam Houston State University; Ph.D. University of North Texas. Research Interests: corporate governance, auditor independence, audit quality, and audit pricing, earnings management and accrual quality, financial statement fraud, ethics.
Heibatollah Sami
Professor of Accounting; Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Professor. B.S., Iranian Institute of Advanced Accounting, M.S., Central Michigan University, Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Teaching areas: financial accounting and reporting. Research interests: impact of accounting information on capital markets; international accounting; auditing.
Kenneth P. Sinclair
Professor of Accounting. B.A., M.S., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts. Teaching areas: cost accounting; managerial accounting. Research interests: performance evaluation; corporate governance.
Associate Professors
Karen M. Collins, CPA
Associate Professor of Accounting. B.S., M.B.A., Salisbury State University; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Teaching areas: financial accounting; managerial accounting. Research interests: behavioral dimensions of public accounting practice (including stress, turnover and upward mobility of women).
James A. Hall
Associate Professor of Accounting; Peter E. Bennett Chair. B.A., M.A., University of Tulsa; Ph.D., Oklahoma State University. Teaching areas: accounting information systems; management information systems. Research interests: systems design; internal control of systems; computer systems auditing.
Assistant Professors
David Folsom
Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting. B.S., M.A., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., University of Iowa. Teaching areas: managerial and financial accounting. Research Interests: explanations and effects of conservative financial reporting, competitive influences on disclosure.
Hye Seung (Grace) Lee
Assistant Professor of Accounting. B.S., Seoul Women's University, Korea; M.B.A., Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., University of Arizona. Research interests: the effects of financial reporting on capital markets, financial analysts' forecasts, and voluntary disclosure. Teaching areas: financial and managerial accounting.
Xu Li
Assistant Professor of Accounting. B.S., University of International Business Economics; M.S., Boston College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; James T. Kane Faculty Fellowship. Research interests: the capital market's reaction on accounting information, insider trading and information asymmetry, disclosure's impact on cost of capital, and institutional investors' trading behavior.
Yvonne Lu
Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting. B.B.A., M.P.A., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Stanford University. Research interests: earnings management and earnings quality, securities litigation, corporate governance, pension accounting.
Marietta Peytcheva
Assistant Professor of Accounting; Charlotte & Robert L. Brown III '78 Research Fellow. B.S., Ph.D., Rutgers. Research interests: audit judgment and decision making, financial restatements, and ethics in accounting.
Professor of Practice
Jay D. Brodish
Professor of Practice, Department of Accounting. B.S., Lehigh University. Teaching areas: financial accounting; analysis of financial statements; forensic accounting and auditing.
Joseph M. Manzo
Professor of Practice, Accounting Department. B.A., Rutgers University; M.B.A. Lehigh University. Teaching areas: Financial accounting, business consulting process and practice, business ethics.
Lecturer
David Hinrichs, CPA
Lecturer, Department of Accounting; John C. Swartley '24 Professor. B.S., University of North Dakota; M.S., M.B.A., Lehigh University. Expertise: Financial management of information technology; outsourcing; accounting information systems.