FACULTY NEWS
TWO SENIOR FACULTY PROMOTED TO FULL PROFESSOR The School of Accountancy now has two additional full professors effective Fall Semester 2014, Dr. Jennifer Mueller-Phillips and Dr. Duane Brandon. Dr. Jennifer Mueller-Phillips, KPMG Professor, joined Auburn in 2000. Her research interests relate to auditor judgment and liability, with publications appearing in Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Information Systems, Advances in Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting Education, Journal of Accountancy, and CPA Journal. Recent recognition includes a highly-competitive research grant by the Center for Audit Quality, appointment to a research synthesis team of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and to the KPMG Academic Research Panel, which supports the firm’s funding for academic research nationwide.
Dr. Mueller-Phillips’ passion is teaching the undergraduate auditing course. She participates in numerous national programs to keep her audit knowledge current and brings in audit professionals to speak about current issues. She has been recognized numerous times for outstanding teaching at Virginia Tech and Auburn University, including the College’s prestigious McCartney Award. She recently concluded two years of service as Beta Alpha Psi faculty advisor. Her newest role in the college is as Director of Quality Assurance, reporting to Associate Dean Norman Godwin on assurance of learning and accreditation matters. Dr. Duane Brandon, Taylor Professor, joined the Auburn faculty in 2003. He currently teaches undergraduate and graduate accounting courses as well as courses in the Phy-
sicians Executive MBA and Executive MBA programs. His research interests are in audit quality, stakeholder perceptions of the audit, and auditor judgment and decision-making. Dr. Brandon has been recognized multiple times for outstanding teaching, including the Outstanding Teaching Award in the SOA twice (2011, 2012), Outstanding Teacher Award – On-Campus MAcc (2010), the McCartney Teaching Award in the HCOB twice (2008, 2013), and the Lowder Teaching Award in the HCOB (2012). He also was selected twice to represent the HCOB as faculty honoree at Camp War Eagle in 2008 & 2012.
STANLEY PROMOTED TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & TENURED The School of Accountancy proudly announces that Dr. Jonathan Stanley is promoted to Associate Professor effective Fall 2014. Along with this promotion comes tenure, which is a huge accomplishment! Dr. Stanley’s research focuses on the determinants of audit quality and the information contained in audit disclosures. His work has been published in various journals, including Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, 10
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Current Issues in Auditing, Issues in Accounting Education, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. He has received various awards in recognition of research and teaching, including the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Auditing Dissertation Award, the School of Accountancy’s Outstanding Research and Teaching Awards, and the Harbert College’s Lowder Teaching Award.
Dr. Stanley holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, a Master of Taxation, and a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama. He’s taught a variety of auditing and financial accounting courses at the undergraduate, masters, and MBA levels. Currently, Dr. Stanley teaches Intermediate Accounting I and Advanced Accounting Topics to undergraduate and MAcc students.