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.
Heibatollah Sami
Professor of Accounting; Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Professorship. 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
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
Sanaz Aghazadeh
Assistant Professor of Accounting. B.S., Louisiana State University; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma. Research Interests: Judgment and decision making in auditing.
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.
Yoon Ju Kang
Assistant Professor of Accounting. B.S., Ewha Womans University; M.S.A., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Research interests: judgment and decision making in auditing and corporate governance.
Hye Seung (Grace) Lee
Assistant Professor of Accounting; Charlotte & Robert L. Brown III '78 Research Fellowship. 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.
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; Thomas J. Campbell '80 Professorship. 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; managerial 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. B.S., University of North Dakota; M.S., M.B.A., Lehigh University. Expertise: Financial management of information technology; outsourcing; accounting information systems.