Faculty
"PhD programs are all about having close access and mentorship from good faculty. The Goizueta PhD accounting program clearly has this most important feature. We have some of the best faculty in the country, and students have close everyday access to these faculty." |
-Ilia Dichev, Goizueta Chaired Professor of Accounting |
Professors
Ilia Dichev
Goizueta Chaired Professor of Accounting
Doctoral Area Coordinator for Accounting
PhD, University of Washington
Professor Dichev's research focuses on financial reporting and capital market analysis. View profile
Kathryn Kadous
Professor of Accounting
PhD, University of Illinois
Professor Kadous's research interests include judgment/decision making in auditing, financial accounting, and managerial accounting. View profile
Connie Kertz
Professor of Accounting
J.D., Emory University
Professor Kertz teaches in the areas of taxation and the legal environment of business. Prior to joining the Goizueta Business School faculty, Connie was a law clerk for Justice G. Conley Ingram of the Georgia Supreme Court and was an associate tax attorney with the Atlanta and Washington law firm of Sutherland, Asbill, and Brennan. View profile
Grace Pownall
Professor of Accounting
PhD, University of Chicago
Professor Pownall's research interests are financial empirical accounting, voluntary disclosure, and information and global capital markets. View profile
Shivaram Rajgopal
Schaefer Chaired Professor in Accounting
PhD, University of Iowa
Professor Rajgopal's research focuses in two areas: the investigation of the determinants and consequences of financial reporting strategies, and the exploration of the relationships between executive compensation (stock options) and the executive behavior such as risk taking. View profile
Gregory Waymire
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Accounting
PhD, University of Chicago
Gregory Waymire's current research interests are focused on the economic function of basic accounting technologies and practices. His work explores the impact of basic recordkeeping, the relation between accounting principles and the brain’s evaluation of exchange, the spontaneous emergence of norms and conventions in accounting practice, and the role of language in promoting economic exchange under uncertainty. His research has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations & Society, Accounting Horizons, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among others. View profile
Associate Professors
Jan Barton
Associate Professor of Accounting
PhD, University of Alabama
Professor Barton's research focuses on the effects of financial reporting on managerial behavior and the economic value of the firm. View profile
Kristy Towry
Associate Professor of Accounting
PhD University of Texas at Austin
Professor Towry's research relates to the use of accounting information for managerial decision making, with a special focus on managerial control systems and financial incentives. View profile
Assistant Professors
Peter Demerjian
Assistant Professor of Accounting
PhD, University of Michigan
Professor Demerjian’s research interests are in the areas of debt and earnings quality. View profile link needed. View profile
