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New Hires for 2007

Sudipta Basu (Ph.D., Rochester) is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Fox School of Business, having taught previously at Emory University and Baruch College, City University of New York.  His research examines the effects of conservatism and other accounting principles on the properties of reported earnings and analysts’ earnings forecasts, and his work appears in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and Journal of Financial Statement Analysis.  His current research—for which he received an award from the American Accounting Association for Best Paper published in Accounting Horizons in 2006—aims to understand the origins of accounting.  

Dr. Basu is Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, reviews papers for several other accounting and finance journals, and has served as an invited discussant at major accounting conferences.  He co-authored the weekly Wall Street Journal Accounting Educators’ Review during 2000-2001.  He is married, and has a daughter.

Elizabeth A. Gordon (Ph.D., Columbia) joins us as Associate Professor of Accounting with tenure, and Merves Scholar.  She specializes in the areas of international accounting and corporate governance investigating topics such as accounting restatements, corporate communications, executive compensation, related party transactions, market development and corporate disclosure, and international financial reporting standards.  Her research is published in top journals in her field including the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and The Accounting Review.  She serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of International Accounting Research and The International Journal of Accounting.  Dr. Gordon has taught courses in financial accounting and international accounting at the graduate and undergraduate levels, receiving a number of teaching awards. 

Dr. Gordon was an auditor with Price Waterhouse and interned at the Office of Management and Budget before entering academe.  Prior to joining Temple, she was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, and the Rutgers Business School.  Dr. Gordon received her Doctorate from Columbia University, Masters in Business Administration from Yale University and Bachelors of Science in accounting with highest distinction from Indiana University.  She and her husband are parents to a son and daughter.

Sheri L. Risler, CPA is the Professor of Accounting Practice at the Fox School, and a retired Audit Partner from Ernst & Young in Philadelphia.  At E&Y, she provided a broad range of services to entrepreneurial, middle market and public companies, with a focus on managing, planning, and directing engagement teams performing financial statement audits of companies in the service, high technology and life-sciences industries.  Ms. Risler brings a comprehensive knowledge of accounting, financial and SEC-reporting requirements to the classroom, having assisted her clients, attorneys and investment bankers in preparing initial and secondary public and private offerings. 

Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Ms. Risler was a Senior Internal Auditor with the University of Pennsylvania, where she conducted evaluations of internal accounting controls, reviewed adherence to policies and procedures, recommended efficiencies in the University’s operations and reported on the findings.  Ms. Risler received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Boston University, and is a member of the American and Pennsylvania Institutes of Certified Public Accountants.  She is married, and has a daughter.

About the Department

The program provides the student with a broad general education and intensive study within the major as preparation for professional careers in public accounting, cost and managerial accounting, information systems, business consulting, government, and not-for-profit institutions.

The curriculum in accounting is designed to acquaint the student with the conceptual framework and theory of accounting, transactional analysis, asset management, liabilities, owners' equity, and financial reporting. Cost analysis and control, accounting information systems, taxation, consolidated financial statements, and foreign operations also are covered, along with auditing techniques and an understanding of the ethical and performance standards of the profession.

Coursework also is required outside of the major in the legal and social environment of business, written and oral communication, the humanities, and the social sciences.

In Pennsylvania, students are only required to have a bachelors degree to qualify to sit for the CPA exam and become certified. Other nearby states (New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland) do require a total of 150 semester hours of education to be eligible to become a CPA. Students who plan to seek employment in cost and managerial accounting, accounting information systems, internal auditing and other accounting-related career paths are not required to have additional training beyond the baccalaureate level in any state.

We also offer the Accounting Certificate Program for students who wish to obtain some or all of the necessary training to sit for the CPA Exam but do not want to enroll in a masters degree program.

There are three professional student organizations available for accounting majors:

Students majoring in finance and information systems also are eligible for membership in these organizations.

Accounting Research Workshops

Accounting Research Workshop sessions are usually held on Fridays during the school year.. Several internationally known researchers have presented papers to our faculty and graduate students. These workshops also provide opportunities for our doctoral studetns to present their work for constructive feedback and learn about the latest research in different areas. Click below for the workshop schedule.

http://astro.temple.edu/~krish/workshop.html

 

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