The accounting faculty have varied research interests, which include financial accounting and disclosure, the role of earnings and earnings forecasts in capital markets, analysis of managerial incentives and preferences for different accounting rules, regulations and disclosure regimes, issues related to audit market structure, auditors incentives and reputations, managerial performance evaluation and control, cost system design, and issues related to the role of culture and strategy in determining accounting rules and practices in the USA and international markets.
Accounting faculty have published in the top academic journals in their discipline including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, the Journal of Finance, Behavioral Research in Accounting, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Law and Economics, and Management Accounting Research. The research productivity of the faculty places them in the top third of a comparable group of major (largely) urban universities. They also serve as reviewers and editors for many of these journals. The accounting faculty are also actively involved in various professional associations such as the American Accounting Association, the Academy of International Business , the American Institute of CPA's, the American Economics Association, and the American Taxation Association. Finally, a significant number of accounting faculty members have won teaching and service awards as testimonials to their contributions in the classroom in the College of Business.
