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EDUCATION
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1996 |
Ph.D. (Business),
University of Kansas
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1979 |
M.A. (Mathematics
and Philosophy), St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
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1975 |
B.A. (Mathematics
and Philosophy), St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
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1965 - 1972 |
11 O
Levels, 3 A Levels, 2 S
Levels, Catholic College, Preston, UK
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PRESENT
POSITION
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1996 - Present |
Associate Professor,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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PREVIOUS
POSITIONS
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2007 - 2008 |
Academic
Director, Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers |
1993 - 1996
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Graduate
Teaching Assistant, School of Business, University of Kansas
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1986 - 1992
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Partner in
charge of Advanced Audit Techniques, European Director of
Audit Methods, Grant Thornton, UK
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1984 - 1985 |
Director,
Thornton Baker
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1975 - 1984
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Assistant -
Senior Manager, Price Waterhouse, UK
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DISSERTATION
TOPIC
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"A
Comparative Study of Audit Evidence and Audit Planning Models
Using Uncertain Reasoning", July 1996
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PUBLICATIONS
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BOOKS
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"Conflict,
Consistency and Consonance in
Belief Functions: Coherence and
Integrity of Belief Systems" Belief Functions in
Business Decisions (Springer-Verlag, 2002)
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"Audit
Judgment" Auditing Practice, Research and
Education: a Productive Collaboration (AICPA, 1995, pp. 55 -
85) [lead Chapter author]
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Grant Thornton
Audit Manual (London: Longman, 1990) (wrote
Chapters 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 19; edited
Chapters 5, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20; reviewed
remaining Chapters)
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JOURNALS
(refereed)
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"How Partner's Views Influence Individual Auditors' Judgments"
(Forthcoming, 2011) [with Marietta Peytcheva] |
"Differential
Evaluation of Audit Evidence from Fixed vs. Sequential Sampling"
Behavioral Research in Accounting (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2011)[with
Marietta Peytcheva] |
"Representation of Interrelationships among Binary Variables
under Dempster–Shafer Theory of Belief Functions"
International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Vol. 24 No. 4,
2009, pp. 1 - 17)
[with R. P. Srivastava and L. Gao] |
"A
Probabilistic Logic Based on the Acceptability of Gambles"
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Vol. 44,
2007, pp. 281 - 300) [with G. Shafer and R. B. Scherl] |
"CFO
Intentions of Fraudulent Financial Reporting" Auditing: A
Journal of Practice and Theory (Spring 2005, pp. 55 - 75)
[with Nancy Uddin]
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"A New
Understanding of Subjective Probability and its Generalization
to Lower and Upper Prevision" International Journal of
Approximate Reasoning (Vol. 33, 2003, pp. 1 - 49) [with G. Shafer and R. B.
Scherl]
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"The
Effects of Moral Reasoning and Self-Monitoring on CFO Intentions
to Report Fraudulently on Financial Statements" The Journal of Business Ethics
(Vol. 40, 2002, pp.15-32) [with Nancy Uddin]
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"The Logic of Events" Annals of
Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 28, 2000,
pp. 315 - 389) [with G. Shafer and R. B. Scherl]
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"Monetary Unit
Sampling: A Belief-Function Approach for Audit
and Accounting Applications" International Journal of
Approximate Reasoning (Vol. 25, 2000, pp. 43 - 70)
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"Attribute Sampling: A
Belief-Function Approach to Statistical Audit
Evidence" Auditing: A Journal of Practice
and Theory (Spring 2000, pp. 145 - 155) [with R. P. Srivastava]
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"Continental Development Corporation" Journal
of Accounting Case Research Volume 5, No. 2 (July, 2000, pp.
81 - 90) [with M.
Ettredge]
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"Automated
Dynamic Audit Programme Tailoring: An Expert
System Approach" Auditing: A Journal of
Practice and Theory (1993 Supplement, pp. 173 - 189)
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JOURNALS
(other)
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"Expert
Systems: delivering on the promise" audIT
- The Audit Automation Magazine - Issue 20
(Cork: Cork Publishing Limited, December 1993, pp. 4 - 7)
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"Automating
Analytical Procedures - Part 3" audIT
- The Audit Automation Magazine - Issue 17 (Cork: Cork Publishing Limited,
June 1993, pp. 25 - 37)
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"Automating
Analytical Procedures - Parts 1, 2 & 3" audIT
- The Audit Automation Magazine - Issue 16 (Cork: Cork Publishing Limited, April
1993, pp. 15 - 25)
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"Automating
Analytical Procedures - Parts 1, 2 & 3" audIT
- The Audit Automation Magazine - Issue 15 (Cork: Cork Publishing Limited,
February 1993, pp. 10 - 18)
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"Audit Sampling
with IDEA" audIT - The Audit Automation
Magazine - Issue 14 (Cork: Cork Publishing
Limited, December 1992, pp. 15 - 18)
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"Interactive
Data Extraction and Analysis: Using IDEA
4.0" audIT - The Audit Automation
Magazine - Issue 1 (Cork: Cork Publishing
Limited, September 1990, pp. 12 - 18)
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PROFESSIONAL
PUBLICATIONS WRITTEN ANONYMOUSLY
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ICAEW, IT Brief -
Expert Systems (London: ICAEW, 1994, pp. 1 - 45) (Author)
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ICAEW, IT Brief -
Audit Automation (London: ICAEW, 1993, pp. 1 - 11)
(Author)
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OTHER
ANONYMOUS PROFESSIONAL
PUBLICATIONS
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ICAEW, IT Brief -
End User Computing (London: ICAEW, 1993)
(Chairman of Working Party drafting text)
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ICAEW, IT
Statement Number 5 - Controlling Small Computers
(London: ICAEW, November 1988, pp. 1 - 15) (Secretary of
Working Party drafting text)
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PUBLISHED
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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"Basing
Probabilistic Logic on Gambles" Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and
Their Applications (Brightdocs, 2005, pp. 173 - 182) |
"Subjective
Probability and its Generalization to Lower and Upper
Prevision: A New Understanding" Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and
Their Applications (Carleton Scientific, 2003, pp. 511 -
525)
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"Discussants Response
to A Decision Aid for
Internal Control Testing Plan Selection’"
Auditing Symposium XIV: Proceedings of the
1998 Deloitte & Touche/University of Kansas
Symposium on Auditing Problems (University of
Kansas, School of Business, 1999, pp. 153 - 157)
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"Discussants
Response to A Behavioral-Economics Approach
to Auditors Risk Assessments" Auditing
Symposium XII: Proceedings of the 1994 Deloitte
& Touche/University of Kansas Symposium on
Auditing Problems (University of Kansas,
School of Business, 1995, pp. 133 - 139)
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"Discussants
Response to Practical Experiences with
Regression Analysis" Auditing
Symposium XI: Proceedings of the 1992 Deloitte
& Touche/University of Kansas Symposium on
Auditing Problems (University of Kansas,
School of Business, 1993, pp. 171 - 175)
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PRESENTATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
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AAA Annual
Meeting, Anaheim 2008:
"Responsibility for Previous Work, Time Pressure, and
Suppression of Audit Evidence" [with Marietta Peytcheva] |
AAA Annual
Meeting, Anaheim 2008: "The Impact
Of Multi-Dimensional Corporate Transparency On Us Firms’ Credit
Ratings And Cost Of Capital" [with David DeBoskey] |
Merck
Summer Institute on Bioethics, July 2008, Opening and Closing
Addresses; Introduction to Epidemiological Modeling; Ethical
Decision Making |
AAA Annual
Meeting, Chicago 2007: "The Effect of Stopping Rules on the
Evaluation of Audit Evidence" [with Marietta Peytcheva] |
Merck
Summer Institute on Bioethics, July 2007, Opening and Closing
Addresses |
AAA IS
Section Mid-year Meeting, Scottsdale AZ, January 2006: "Approaches to
teaching AIS" |
4th
International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and Their
Applications, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburg, July 2005: "Basing
Probabilistic Logic on Gambles" |
Prudential
Business Ethics Center at Rutgers, October 2003: "Corporate
Scandals and Whistleblowing: The Enron Collapse and it
Aftermath": Panelist |
AAA Annual
Meeting, Honolulu 2003: "CFO Intentions to Report Fraudulently on
Financial Statements" [with Nancy Uddin]
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3rd
International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and Their
Applications, Lugano, July 2003: "Subjective Probability
and its Generalization to Lower and Upper Prevision: A New
Understanding"
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University
of Kansas Management Science Workshop, March 2003: "Towards
Probabilistic Logics for Event Spaces" |
Rutgers
Governmental Accounting & Auditing Update Conference,
December 2002, "The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley"
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New Jersey
Society of Certified Public Accountants, September 2002:
"Enron and the Accounting Profession"
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Wilkin and
Guttenplan, June 2002: "Enron and the Accounting
Profession"
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Association
of Governmental Accountants / American Society for Public
Administration Conference, May 2002: "Enron and the
Accounting Profession"
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Conference
on Enron and the Accounting Profession, May 2002, Prudential
Business Ethics Center at Rutgers: "Enron and the
Accounting Profession"
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AAA Annual
Meeting, Atlanta 2001: Discussant
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University
of Southern California Accounting Research Forum March 2000:
"Possibility Theory: A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Audit
Evidence and Audit Planning Models"
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Ernst &
Young Center for Auditing Research and Advanced Technology,
Kansas 1999: "Propagating Uncertain Reasoning Using Valuation
Networks: The PURSUIVANT
Project"
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University
of Kansas Problems in Auditing Symposium 1998: Discussant
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Ernst &
Young Center for Auditing Research and Advanced Technology,
Kansas 1998: "Propagating Uncertain Reasoning Using Valuation
Networks: The PURSUIVANT
Project"
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4th
Annual Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update Conference,
Rutgers 1997: "Constructing Audit Models for Planning
Financial and Compliance Audits Using Uncertain
Reasoning"
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Ernst &
Young Center for Auditing Research and Advanced Technology,
Kansas 1997: "Propagating Uncertain Reasoning Using Valuation
Networks: The PURSUIVANT
Project"
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ACCOUNTING
2000: Electronic Commerce, Artificial Intelligence and other
Information Technologies (1997): Chairman (presented
Introduction and Plenary Session)
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7th
Accounting and Finance Workshop 1996: "Integrating
Statistical and Non-Statistical Audit Evidence Using Belief
Functions: The Case of Monetary Unit Sampling"
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International
Symposium on Audit Research, Maastricht 1996: "Integrating
Statistical and Non-Statistical Audit Evidence Using Belief
Functions: The Case of Monetary Unit Sampling"
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AAA Annual
Meeting, Orlando 1995: "Integrating Statistical and
Non-Statistical Audit Evidence in Attribute Sampling using
Belief Functions"
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AAA Annual
Meeting CPE, Orlando1995: "A Tutorial on Belief Functions"
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2nd
Annual ABO Section Conference, Orlando 1995: Doctoral Student Presenter
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University
of Southern California Audit Judgment Symposium 1995:
Discussant
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3rd
Annual Research Workshop on AI/ES in Accounting, Auditing and
Tax, New York 1994: "Expert Systems: a Perspective for
Accountants"
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University
of Kansas Problems in Auditing Symposium 1994: Discussant
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University
of Southern California Audit Judgment Symposium 1994:
Discussant
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University
of Southern California Audit Judgment Symposium 1993:
Discussant
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Rutgers
University Expert Systems in Auditing 1992: ADAPT
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Maastricht
Audit Research Symposium 1992: ADAPT
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ACE Audit
Automation Conference, London 1992: Analytical Procedures
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University
of Kansas Problems in Auditing Symposium 1992: Discussant
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University
of Southern California Audit Judgment Symposium 1992:
"Automated Dynamic Audit Programme Tailoring (ADAPT) - an
expert system approach"
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Maastricht
Audit Research Symposium 1991: Panel Member
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ACE Audit
Automation Conference, London 1991: Closing Address
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Chartech,
London 1991 Conference: Automating the audit practice
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University
of Southern California Audit Judgment Symposium 1991:
Discussant
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IEE
Conference on Expert Systems, London 1991: What accountants
want from Expert Systems
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ACE Audit
Automation Conference, London 1990: Opening Address
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University
of Southern California Audit Judgment Symposium 1990:
Discussant
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ACE Audit
Automation Conference, Brussels 1989: Opening Address
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GRANT
THORNTON
|
International
Audit Manual Implementation Training Course
Presented personally to partners and managers in:
Europe (Brighton 1990)
UK (London 1990)
Netherlands (Alphen a/d Rijn 1990)
Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane
1991)
Hong Kong (1991)
Malta (1991)
South Africa (Johannesburg 1991)
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Audit Automation
Training Courses in:
Australia (Sydney 1991)
Hong Kong (1991)
Malta (1991)
Europe (1991 & 1992)
South Africa (1992)
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Analytical
Procedures Course:
Europe (High Wycombe 1991 & 1992)
South Africa (1992)
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WORKING
PAPERS
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"Unethical Behavior by Auditors: Do Prior
Involvement and Reputation Concerns Induce Evidence Suppression?" [with Marietta Peytcheva] (Under
review) |
"The Impact
Of Multi-Dimensional Corporate Transparency On Us Firms’ Credit
Ratings And Cost Of Capital" [with David DeBoskey] (Under
review) |
"On What
There Is in the World of Business Activity: An Ontological
Investigation of REA" [with David DeBoskey]
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"A
Probabilistic Logic Based on the Acceptability of Gambles", 48 pages [with Glenn Shafer and Richard B. Scherl]
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"Possibility
Theory: A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Audit Evidence
and Audit Planning Models", 55 pages (Under review)
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"Spohn's
Epistemic Calculus: A Practical Approach to Audit Evidence and
Audit Planning Models", 55 pages
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"Computing Marginals in
Binary Join Trees", 25 pages [with Prakash P. Shenoy]
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"Neural Network
Models of Audit Planning Materiality: a
Comparison of GANNA and Adaptive Logic
Networks", 44 pages
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"Type Theory and Event
Spaces", 16 pages [with Glenn Shafer, Richard B. Scherl and
Tatsiana Levina]
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"Audit Indicators of CFO Intentions to
Report Fraudulently on Financial Statements", 6 pages [with Nancy
Uddin]
|
"Using Evidential Networks to
Aggregate Audit Evidence: Belief Functions versus
Probabilities", 5 pages [with Rajendra P. Srivastava and Mike
Etteredge]
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GRANTS,
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
|
April 2011 |
Rutgers
Business Governing Association Best Accounting Information
Systems Professor Award |
April 2011 |
Rutgers
Business Governing Association Most Challenging Course Award |
April 2009 |
Beta Alpha Psi Professor of the Year Award |
April 2008 |
Honorary
Member, Rutgers University Glee Club |
August 2006 |
PwC
Accounting
Symposium Participant |
July 2006 |
PwC Faculty
University Participant |
August 2005 |
PwC
Accounting
Symposium Participant |
June 2004 |
PwC Faculty
University Participant |
2001 |
Trueblood
Seminar Participant
|
May 2000 |
Visiting
Scholar, Ernst & Young Center for Auditing Research and
Advanced Technology
|
2000 |
GE Teaching
Fellowship
|
1999 - 2002 |
NSF Grant
"The Representation of Causality for Auditing"
($338,114)
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May 1999 |
Visiting Scholar,
Ernst & Young Center for Auditing Research
and Advanced Technology
|
1998 |
AICPA/AAA
Collaboration Award
|
May 1998 |
Visiting Scholar,
Ernst & Young Center for Auditing Research
and Advanced Technology
|
1997 - 1998 |
GE Teaching
Fellowship
|
1997 - 2001 |
Graduate
Faculty, Graduate School (Newark), Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey
|
May 1997 |
Visiting Scholar,
Ernst & Young Center for Auditing Research
and Advanced Technology
|
1997 |
Dorothy
Haglund Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation,
University of Kansas Graduate School
|
1997 |
AAA New
Faculty Consortium Participant
|
1996 |
Beta Gamma
Sigma
|
1995 - 1996 |
Ernst &
Young Doctoral Fellow
|
1995 |
Deloitte
& Touche/AAA Doctoral Consortium Fellow
|
1994 - 1996 |
Dean’s
List, School of Business
|
1993 - 1996 |
Ronald G.
Harper Doctoral Fellow
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1972 - 1973 |
Open
Exhibition, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
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PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
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Fellow of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and
Wales (ICAEW)
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Member of the
British Computer Society (BCS)
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Member of the
Institute for the Management of Data Processing
(IMIS)
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Fellow of the
Institute of Management (IMgt)
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ASSOCIATION
MEMBERSHIPS
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IT Faculty of the
ICAEW
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Audit Faculty of the
ICAEW
|
American Accounting
Association (Auditing, SET, ABO , MIS and Teaching and
Curriculum sections)
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American Statistical
Association
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SERVICE
ACTIVITIES
|
2011 |
Chief Teaching Technology Officer, Department of Accounting and
Information Systems |
2009 - 2011
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Co-chair, University Structure & Governance Committee |
2009 - 2011
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Member, University Senate Executive Committee |
2009
|
Member ad hoc Honors Program Committee
Rutgers Business School–New Brunswick |
2009 - 2011
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Member, ad hoc Core Curriculum Committee
Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick |
2008 - 2010 |
Member, Peer Evaluation Committee, Department of Accounting and
Information Systems |
2007 - 2010 |
Member, School of Arts and Sciences Academic Standing Committee |
2007 - 2011 |
School of Arts and Sciences Affiliate |
2007 - 2008 |
Dissertation Committee Chair, Marietta Peytcheva |
2006 - 2011 |
Member,
Rules of Procedure Committee
Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick |
2006 - 2008 |
Member,
Nominations Committee
Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick |
2006 - 2011 |
Faculty
Advisor, Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir |
2005 - 2011 |
Faculty
Secretary, Rutgers Business School |
2005 - 2006 |
Dissertation Committee Chair, David DeBoskey |
2005 - 2006 |
Member of the Notable Contributions to the AIS Literature Award
Committee, AAA IS Section |
2005 - 2006 |
Faculty
Advisor, Catholic Students Association |
2004 - 2007 |
New
Brunswick Faculty Council
Member, Academic Regulations & Standards Committee; Teaching
Committee |
2004 - 2007 |
Rutgers
College Honors Program Faculty Mentor |
2004 - 2007 |
Rutgers
College Fellow |
2004 - 2007
2009 - 2011 |
Member,
Technology Policy Committee
Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick |
2004 |
Chair,
Dean's Ad Hoc Committee on Recruitment |
2003 - 2006 |
Member of
the CIMIC Research Award Committee, Rutgers Business
School–Newark and New Brunswick |
2002 - 2003
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Member,
Courses of Study Committee
Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
|
2002 - 2011
|
University
Senator
(Rutgers Business School)
Member, Governance and Structure Committee
|
2002 - 2011
|
Faculty
Advisor, Rutgers University Glee Club
|
2002 - 2006
|
Ph. D.
Coordinator, Department of Accounting and
Information Systems
|
2001 - 2004
|
Member of
the Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee, AAA AI/ET
Section
|
2001 - 2005
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Chairman,
Ph.D. Qualifying Examination Committee, Department of Accounting
and
Information Systems
|
2001 - 2003 |
Member of the Policy
Committee, Department of Accounting and
Information Systems
|
2001 - 2003 |
Member of the
Curriculum Committee, Department of Accounting and
Information Systems
|
2001 - 2011
|
Editorial
Board, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting |
2000 - 2006 |
Member of the Ph.D.
Committee, Department of Accounting and
Information Systems
|
2000 - 2011 |
Editorial Board, International
Journal of Accounting Information Systems |
2000 - 2001 |
Past Chairman, Auditing
Standards Committee of the AAA Auditing Section
|
1998 - 2000 |
Dissertation
Committee Chair, Nancy Uddin
|
1998 - 2000 |
Dissertation
Committee Member, Rich Jones
|
1998 |
Dissertation
Committee Member, Jill Giles
|
1998 - 2000 |
Chairman, Auditing
Standards Committee of the AAA Auditing Section
|
1997 - 2007 |
New
Brunswick Faculty Fellow, Rutgers Business School |
1997 - 1999 |
Member of the
Membership Committee, AAA Auditing Section
|
1997 - 1998 |
Member of the
AAA/AICPA Information Technology Visioning
Conference Task Force
|
1997 - 1999 |
Member of the Ph.D.
Committee, Department of Accounting and
Information Systems
|
1996 - 2011 |
Member of
the Academic Standing Committee, Rutgers Business School - New
Brunswick
|
1995 - 1996 |
President,
Association of Business Doctoral Students,
University of Kansas
|
1994 - 2003 |
Editorial Board, Auditing:
a Journal of Practice & Theory |
1994 |
Co-Chairman: Third
Annual Workshop on AI/ES in Accounting, Auditing
and Tax
|
1993 - 2011 |
Ad hoc reviews for
eight academic journals including JAR and JIS
|
1993 - 1995 |
Chaired chapter
subcommittee for AAA/AICPA Monograph on Auditing
Research
|
1992 - 1993 |
Technical Committee
Member, ICAEW IT Faculty
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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
|
1984 - 1992 |
Grant Thornton,
London (Partner in charge of Advanced Audit
Techniques, European Director of Audit Methods):
|
|
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Directing and managing
the firm’s activities in EDP Audit, Audit Automation and
Audit Methodologies
|
|
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Evaluating, developing and
implementing automated audit tools and associated
quantitative methodologies and documentation
|
|
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Promotion and implementation of
audit methods within Grant Thornton member firms
world-wide
|
1975 - 1984 |
Price Waterhouse,
London (Audit Assistant, then: Audit Senior,
Assistant Manager, Manager, Supervising
Consultant):
|
|
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General audit, accountancy and
taxation services for a wide range of British and
International companies
|
|
 |
Review of controls in a variety
of computer-based accounting systems and EDP
installations
|
|
 |
Development and management of
file interrogations
|
|
 |
Administration, planning,
staffing and review of computer audit work for a
portfolio of over 50 clients
|
1991 - 1992 |
Development
of the firm’s future strategy for audit automation
|
1990 - 1992 |
Design and
implementation of language-independent and WINDOWS versions of
GTSP, a tool for assigning audit risk and planning and
evaluating audit samples
|
1990 - 1992 |
Presented
series of (fourteen) three-day courses to introduce the
revised Grant Thornton audit approach and tools to partners in
Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, Malta and South Africa
|
1989 - 1992 |
Design and
implementation of ADAPT, an expert system for audit programme
tailoring
|
1988 - 1992 |
Chairman of
Steering Committee for development of IDEA, a data extraction
and analysis tool marketed by the C.I.C.A.
|
1990 - 1991 |
Design and
implementation of UK version of GTSP
|
1987 - 1990 |
Chaired
Task Force developing harmonized international version of
Grant Thornton Audit Manual
|
1985 - 1990 |
Launched
audit automation within UK and European practices
|
|
SELECTED
INTERNAL REPORTS
|
(These documents
are confidential to Grant Thornton, Price
Waterhouse and their clients; copies may be
obtained in confidence from Peter R. Gillett)
|
"ADAPT
Implementation Training"
|
"Automated
Dynamic Audit Programme Tailoring: An Expert
System Approach" (Presented at the USC Audit
Judgment Symposium, February 1992: a more
detailed version than that published in Auditing:
A Journal of Practice and Theory)
|
"Audit Policy and Advisory
Panel: Automation Strategy"
|
"Audit Policy
and Advisory Panel: Graphical User
Interfaces"
|
Text of
presentations to ACE Audit Automation
Conferences, 1989 - 1992
|
"London
Computer Audit: Working Paper Standards for File
Interrogation Work"
|
"Statistical
Sampling: A paper on the use of statistical
techniques by the Computer Audit Section of
Barclays Bank"
|
|
MAIN
TEACHING INTERESTS
|
Accounting
Information Systems, Managerial Information Systems
|
REA as a
Domain Ontology for Accounting |
Business
Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems
|
Auditing,
Audit Sampling, EDP Audit
|
Statistics
|
Research
Methodologies
|
Philosophy
of Science |
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COURSES TAUGHT
|
BUS 806:
Managerial Information Systems
|
BUS 605:
Accounting Information Systems
|
BUS 852:
Advanced Auditing
|
BUS 616:
Systems Design and Auditing
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33:010:458:
Accounting Information Systems
|
26:198:722:
Expert Systems
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26:010:653:
Current Topics in Auditing
|
26:010:622:
Internet Technologies and E-Business
|
26:010:685:
Social Science Methods in Accounting Research
|
26:620:557:
Social Science Research Methods |
26:010:680
Current Topics in Accounting Research |
|
DISSERTATIONS
SUPERVISED
|
Marietta
Peytcheva, "Accountability, Reputation Costs, and Opportunistic
Auditor Behavior", 2008 (chair of committee) |
David
DeBoskey, "Coporate Transparency: Key Factors and their
Impact on US Firms", 2006 (chair of committee) |
Richard
Jones, "An Inquiry Into the Effects of Stress on the
Task-Related Processing of Individual Auditors", 2000
(member of committee)
|
Nancy Uddin,
"The Experimental Application of the Reasoned Action
Model to Fraudulent Financial Statements with
Extensions", 2000 (chair of committee)
|
Jill P.
Giles, "Evidence on the Relation between Audit Committee
Characteristics and the Quality of Financial Reporting",
1998 (member of committee)
|
|
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
|
My major
research interests at present are in Event Spaces and in
modeling the various processes of evidence aggregation both in
audit planning and in evaluation, using alternative
Valuation-Based System paradigms such as Belief Functions and
Bayesian Networks. Models presented by academics to date do
not deal effectively with auditors’ intuitions regarding
ignorance, or changing numbers of financial statement items,
nor do they allow for the need to quantify potential
misstatements, or the adjustment of book values during the
audit process. Uncertain reasoning calculi such as Probability
Theory, Belief Functions, Possibility Theory and Spohn’s
Epistemic Beliefs reveal different strengths and weaknesses as
modeling tools in audit research.
The PURSUIVANT
project is developing software to implement these alternative
paradigms for uncertain reasoning to facilitate investigation
of their application in the auditing domain. Additional
research interests are developments of the professional work
that I was carrying out over the few years prior to my
doctoral studies, in the areas of improved structured
(quantified) audit methods and decision support aids. At a
practical level I am keen to develop improved methods of
modeling audit risk and assigning risk effectively to the
various factors involved, and more thorough-going support for
the assessment and allocation of planning materiality. I am
also very interested in providing improved techniques for the
application of analytical procedures throughout the audit, but
especially as a source of audit reliance.
I have also
been researching the application of Event Spaces to auditing
problems in collaboration with Professor Glenn Shafer of
Rutgers and Professor Rich Scherl of NJIT. This project
combines logic and probability theory to develop new methods
and decision aids for causal reasoning. We use a new
axiomatization of the classical idea of a probability tree,
which goes well beyond the current paradigm of Bayes nets in
allowing modular representation of probabilistic information.
A constructive axiomatization suitable for implementation
within Type Theory has been developed, and lower (and upper)
probabilities will be defined for Event Spaces. Financial
statement auditing will be used as a test bed for the methods,
which will ultimately be applicable to many domains where
expert systems are used. Prior research has focused on
representing and aggregating uncertainty within a model.
Although this research has met its own goals reasonably well,
the model itself is almost always either overly simplified or
else very specialized, and hence the research has not produced
decision aids with the flexibility to serve auditors going
into new engagements. Such aids would have to help auditors
build causal models, a task they find challenging. When new
evidence reveals that factors previously deemed unimportant
are, in fact, relevant, they can be taken into account by
refining the existing model, rather than replacing it. This
ability to reason simultaneously and consistently with causal
analyses at different levels of detail will allow the auditor
to avoid models that are hopelessly naïve or impossible
complex.
Other areas of academic interest
include logic, foundations of imprecise probability theory, Philosophy of Science, research
methodologies, and business ethics.
In addition, I am working with former Ph.D. students on
projects involving transparency of financial reporting, REA Ontologies
for Accounting Information Systems, evaluation of audit evidence
from fixed and sequential sampling, and accountability,
reputation costs and opportunistic behavior by auditors.
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PERSONAL
INFORMATION
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Date of
Birth: 22 November 1953
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Marital
Status: Married, three children
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Citizenship:
United Kingdom
Permanent Resident: United States of America
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