Welcome Professor Pope

Joining the School's faculty this Fall is Prof. Kelly Richmond Pope. Prof. Pope spent a year with the KPMG Forensic Practice in Chicago, and prior to KPMG she was an assistant professor of accounting at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Recipient of a prestigious KPMG Doctoral Accounting Fellowship, Prof. Pope holds her Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Her teaching specializations include cost and managerial accounting, international accounting, and accounting ethics; currently she is leading one of the School's first-year honors sections. Her research includes a wide range of subjects, and has appeared in such scholarly publications as the Journal of Financial Services Professionals, Journal of Non-Profit Management, and Journal of Health Care Finance. Prof. Pope has also made presentations at both regional and national meetings of the American Accounting Association, and is active with, among other professional organizations, the American College of Forensic Examiners and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Hwang Named Guest Editor

Prof. Yujong Hwang, Assistant Professor in the School of Acountancy and MIS, was invited to serve as guest editor of the Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC), the official journal of the Information Resource Management Association (IRMA) and ranked as one of top 30 journals in the IS field. The special issue will focus on “Online End-User Trust and Consumer Behavior,” and is scheduled to be published in 2008.

Prof. Hwang has also been invited to serve as guest editor of the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (JECR), ranked as the fourth best journal in the e-commerce field. The special issue, planned for November 2007, has already received 25 submissions for review.

Kanter and ICPAS Ethics Case Project in Insight

Prof. Hopard Kanter's ongoing ethics case project, using scenarios and resolutions from the ICPAS Ethics Committee case files as educational resources, was cited in the January 2006 issue of Insight, from the ICPAS. The article, "Ethics Keepers," by Robert J. Derocher, focuses on growing interest and advances in ethics education, as well as students' needs for more education to prepare for the new separate ethics exam.

The ICPAS' Ethics Case Studiese prepared by Prof. Kanter are here.

Verschoor in Strategic Finance

L&Q Research Professor Curt Verschoor's regular Ethics section in the IMA's Strategic Finance asked "Should All Companies Report on Their Corporate Responsibility?" (November 2005). His introduction to the IMA's new Statement of Ethical Professional Practice, "Do The Right Thing: IMA Issues New Ethics Guidance," appeared in the same issue.

Prof. Hwang, Continued:

School Assistant Professor Yujong Hwang's latest research paper has been accepted for publication in the IT Professional, the journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. The paper is entitled "Integrating Balanced Scorecard Control and Business Process Reengineering."

Prof. Hwang has also been invited to present his paper "Investigating On-line Trust and Consumer Behavior with Culture, Norms, and Innovativeness at the Individual Level" at the Information and Decision Sciences (IDS) Department Research Colloquium, University of Illinois at Chicago, this November.

Kanter's ICPAS Ethics Project at Bentley

School Professor Howard Kanter has been working for some time with the ICPAS to render actual ethics and professional conduct cases from the society's files into ethics case studies usable in the accounting classroom. His work was published on line in the March 2005 Ethics Matters, the online magazine of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College.

The ICPAS Case Studies prepared by Prof. Kanter are available through the ICPAS website.

Welcome Professor Du!

Assistant Professor Ning Du joins the faculty of the School of Accountancy and MIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she earned her Ph.D. She received a MPA from Georgia State University. Ning’s research relates to judgment and decision making issues in accounting, with a focus on the use of accounting information to reduce uncertainty for investment decisions.

Currently, she is investigating how investors perceive risk and ambiguity. Her dissertation focused on variables affecting different information processes that mediate investors’ reactions to management voluntary disclosures. Ning was the recipient of the Fred H. Figge Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award at Illinois, 2002-2003.

Verschoor Honored by IIA . . .

Ledger & Quill Research Professor Curt Verschoor has been awarded the 2005 Outstanding Contributor Award by the Institute of Internal Auditors. The award is in recognition of, among many other contributions, his article "The Ethical Climate Barometer," which appeared in the October 2004 issue of Internal Auditor.

. . . and named IMA rearch practice editor

And, just announced, Prof. Verschoor has been named the inaugural editor of the "Leadership Strategies and Ethics" research practice section of the newly-established Research Center of Excellence (CoE) of the Institute of Management Accountants. The CoE will focus on delivering "best practices and tools for practitioners in the management accounting profession" and "providing leading edge research and tools that advance the profession."

Hwang to Present Research at
Elite Conference

The School's Prof. Yujong Hwang will present his latest research, "An Empirical Study of On-line Trust and Consumer Behavior: Cultural Orientation, Social Norms and Personal Innovativeness of IT," at the 26th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), to be held in Las Vegas in December.

ICIS is considered the top conference in the IS field, attracting scholars and researchers from around the globe. Theme of the 2005 conference is, appropriately, "Forever New Frontiers."

School's Prof. Siegel Earns
IMA's Brummet Award

Gary Siegel, Associate Professor in the School of Accountancy and MIS, was presented the the 2005 Institute of Management Accountants R. Lee Brummet Award, one of the highest recognitions practice can present an educator.

The award was presented at the IMA national conference in Boston, June 20, 2005.

Prof. Siegel was selected for the award on the basis of his grounds-breaking research into the work of management accountants, and the impact of his studies on accounting education.

Prof. Siegel has previously been awarded the James Bulloch Award from the IMA, and most recently a Distinguished Service Award from the Illinois CPA Society.

(More on Prof. Siegel's award will appear in our next L&Q General Journal.)

School's Prof. Kanter chosen as Chief Editor of WBR Educational System

Prof. Howard Kanter has been named Chief Editor of Alexander Haig's World Business Review (WBR) Education System.

WBR, a newsmagazine style television show providing educational materials and news on current topics, trends and issues, can be seen on various media, including its website wbrtv.com.The WBR tape series provides curricular materials used at many colleges and universities.

Kanter's segments on the program will include such topics as Risk Reduction, Information Superhighways, Data Encryption, Bridging the Digital Divide, Wireless Network Security issues and solutions, and other business- and technology-related issues.

Newly-appointed Assistant Professor Yujong Hwang's research paper "Investigating Enterprise Systems Adoption: Uncertainty Avoidance, Intrinsic Motivation, and the Technology Acceptance Model" has been accepted for publication by The European Journal of Information Systems, one of the world's leading IS journals.

Prof. Hwang's paper will be one of only seven articles to appear in the journal's special issue, "Making Enterprise Systems Work."

Mark L. Frigo, Eichenbaum Professor in the School, has been named one of the "Faculty All-Stars" in Chicago's MBA programs, as rounded up in the April 4, 2005 Crain's Chicago Business.

Prof, Frigo's accomplishments as teacher, scholar and administrator (as well as sensei) are well known to DePaul's business students and in the Chicago business community.

Elizabeth Murphy, Associate Professor of Accounting, has been named the 2005 Outstanding Accounting Educator by the Illinois CPA Society. Prof. Murphy is the seventh School of Accountancy faculty member to be so honored.

(For more information, please visit our L&Q News section.)

Ray Whittington, the School's Ledger & Quill Director, has been elected as President-elect of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association. His three-year term on the section's executive committee starts Summer 2005 as President-elect; he will serve as President 2006-07, and Past President 2007-08.

Denise Nitterhouse, Associate Professor, and Gerald Berstell have published "Let the Customer Make the Case" in Strategy and Innovation, March/April 2005.

Berstell is a Chicago-based marketing and innovation consultant specializing in customer case research.

Copies of the article are available upon request; contact Prof. Nitterhouse or Gerald Berstell.

Professor Nitterhouse has also completed her research project for the University of Chicago Press : "Digital Production Strategies for Scholarly Publishers," a technical report reviewing emerging production and distribution options for university publishers.

The project was supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Nitterhouse report is available (pdf format) on the University of Chicago Press website.

Howard Kanter, Associate Professor, continues to oversee the Illinois CPA Society's Ethics Case Studies section on the organization's website. The cases, based on actual ICPAS hearings, can be found here.

     
Gary Siegel, Associate Professor, presented "Using Activity-based Management in a Medical Practice, Part III: Using Revenue and ABC Data for Business Decisions" at the American Accounting Association Research and Case Conference, January. The case, presented at the Management Accounting Section, was co-authored by former School member Prof. Gail Kaciuba, Midwestern State University.

Professors Nancy Hill, Deloitte Professor John McEnroe,and KPMG Professor Kevin Stevens have published "Auditors' Reactions to Sarbanes-Oxley: What Works, What Doesn't," in The CPA Journal (forthcoming.)

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