Accounting Faculty Research

Leah Baer
Corporate Governance; Financial Reporting and Misbehavior; Director and Executive Incentives, Behavior, and Turnover

Cathalene Bowler
Deferred Tax Assets, Taxation, Earnings Management and Accounting Education

Linda DeBarthe
Personal finance, social entrepreneurship

Gabriel Dickey
Audit Quality, Audit Teams, Agility, Metacognition, Emerging Technologies

Amy Igou
Accounting standards effect on IT operations; Software Development Methodologies; IT use in Nonprofit organizations; Using Data Analytics in the Classroom; Big Data applications

Wee Meng Eric Lee
Since joining UNI upon completing his PhD, Eric has established an active research agenda that primarily examines disruptive technologies, sustainability, and pedagogical issues in the field of accounting. His forthcoming and published researches have appeared in leading journals including the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Information Systems, Advances in Accounting, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Telematics and Informatics, Thinking Skills and Creativity, Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Accounting Education, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, among others. Eric has been awarded various research grants/funding over the years, and has also regularly presented in international, national, and regional accounting conferences. He is currently the associate editor of Journal of Accounting Education, and sits on the editorial review board of Journal of Information Systems and Sustainability. He has served as special issue editor, as track chair, and in the organizing committee of multiple premier journals/conferences.

Joseph Ugrin
Professor Ugrin researches human behavior and decision-making in accounting and information systems. He specializes in experimental and survey-based research, and examines questions like, “How do business people choose different types of accounting treatments? How does ethics and integrity influence their decisions? How do they formulate decisions to make investments in structures and technologies? How do they decide to spend their worktime?” He also researches the effects of educational practices and pedagogies on student learning. He is currently the associate editor for Advances in Accounting.

Huishan Wan
Capital market research, earnings management, tax avoidance

Lei Wang
Judgment and Decision Making related to Accounting; Sustainability Reporting.