FRANCES L. AYRES [Top]
DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING,
JOHN W. JR. AND BARBARA J. BRANCH
PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING

PhD (Iowa), Professor Ayres' teaching interests are in the areas of financial accounting, financial accounting theory, economics of accounting choice, and the interaction between tax and financial reporting. She has published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review and other academic and professional journals. Professor Ayres is a past Peat Marwick Research Fellow and Peat Marwick Faculty Fellow. She serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several journals and has served on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. She is past editor of the Journal of the American Taxation Association. She is an associate editor (tax) for Accounting Horizons. Her research interests focus on the impact of taxation and financial information and disclosure on managers and investors.

Address:
OU Price College of Business
John T. Steed School of Accounting
307 W. Brooks, suite 201A
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Contact:
(405) 325-5768
fayres@ou.edu
Personal Website

TERRY L. CRAIN [Top]
DALE LOOPER CHAIR IN ACCOUNTING
AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING

PhD (Texas Tech), CPA (Texas and Oklahoma) Professor Crain's teaching interests are oil and gas accounting, estate and gift, corporate, partnership and individual taxation. He has received the Arthur Andersen Teaching Innovation Award, the Homer Brown Teaching Fellowship and the W.R. Howell Teaching Fellowship. Professor Crain's research interests are in the areas of taxpayer compliance, tax policy, estate taxation and international taxation. Professor Crain has previously been published in Decision Sciences, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Small Business Finances, International Journal of Accounting, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, Journal of Business Ethics, Financial Services Review, CPA Focus, Personal Financial Planning, The Oil and Gas Tax Quarterly and Today's CPA. Professor Crain has 11 years of public accounting experience and is a member of the American Accounting Association, American Taxation Association, National Tax Association, Academy of Financial Services and Oklahoma Society of CPAs.

Address:
OU Price College of Business
John T. Steed School of Accounting
307 W. Brooks, suite 200H
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Contact:
(405) 325-5759
tcrain@ou.edu

ANDREW D. CUCCIA [Top]
GRANT THORTON FACULTY FELLOW
AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING

PhD (Florida), CPA Professor Cuccia's teaching interests are in the areas of individual and corporate taxation and federal tax policy. His research interests are in judgment and decision making, specifically tax professional judgment and taxpayer compliance. Professor Cuccia has published in several journals, including The Journal of the American Taxation Association, The Accounting Review and The Journal of Accounting Research. Prior to entering academia, Professor Cuccia practiced as a CPA with KPMG Peat Marwick. He is a member of the American Accounting Association, American Taxation Association, National Tax Association and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, serving as Vice-President and Trustee of the American Taxation Association. He has served on the editorial board of The Journal of the American Taxation Association and Accounting Horizons and as an ad hoc reviewer for several journals.

Address:
OU Price College of Business
John T. Steed School of Accounting
307 W. Brooks, suite 202A
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Contact:
(405) 325-5796
cuccia@ou.edu
Personal Website

DIPANKAR GHOSH [Top]
JOHN T. STEED PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING

PhD (Penn State) Professor Ghosh's teaching interests are in the area of managerial accounting, designing cost systems and strategic cost analysis. His primary research interests are also in managerial accounting, specifically, accounting information for judgment and decision making, management control systems, performance measures, negotiation, transfer pricing and ethics. Professor Ghosh has published a number of manuscripts in Accounting, Organization and Society, Decisions Sciences, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Business Ethics and Management Accounting. He coauthored a research monograph, "Applying Activity-based Costing in Healthcare," published by the Foundation of Applied Research, Institute on Management Accountant, New Jersey. Professor Ghosh has presented several papers at national and international conferences in the area of managerial accounting and decision making and is a reviewer for a number of journals. He serves on the editorial board of Behavioral Research in Accounting and in Management Accounting Research. His professional experience includes serving as an auditor with Deloitte and Touche and as a management accountant for a multinational manufacturing firm. Professor Ghosh is the Director of the MBA Program and the Chair of the Glen McLaughlin Research Prize Committee for the School of Accounting.

Address:
OU Price College of Business
Division of Accounting
307 W. Brooks, Suite 200G
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Contact:
(405) 325-4221
dghosh@ou.edu
Personal Website


KEVAN L. JENSEN [Top]
ASSOCIATE  PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING

PhD (Florida), CPA  Professor Jensen teaches auditing and fraud examination. His research interests include the market for audit services both as a control mechanism and as a provider of assurance, and the regulation of the auditing profession. He is also interested in the interactions between auditors and their clients. Professor Jensen's research has appeared in Accounting and Business Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and Journal of Accounting Research. Professor Jensen is a member of the Auditing Section and the Accounting, Behavior and Organizations Section of the American Accounting Association. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and has several years of public accounting experience with Deloitte & Touche.

Address:
OU Price College of Business
School of Accounting
307 W. Brooks, Suite 200F
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Contact:
(405) 325-5763
kjensen@ou.edu

CAROL A. KNAPP [Top]
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING

PhD (Oklahoma), CPA  Professor Knapp's teaching interests are in financial accounting, managerial accounting and ethics. Her research interests focus on judgment and decision making in the context of auditing and on fraud detection by auditors. Professor Knapp's research has appeared in Accounting, Organizations, and Society and in Issues in Accounting Education. She has eight years of public accounting experience, five of which were with Deloitte. She has been elected to both Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Beta Kappa.  Professor Knapp is the faculty advisor to Beta Alpha Psi.

Address:
OU Price College of Business
School of Accounting
307 W. Brooks, Suite 200C
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Contact:
(405) 325-5809
cknapp@ou.edu

M. CHRIS KNAPP [Top]
MCLAUGHLIN CHAIR IN BUSINESS ETHICS
AND PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING

PhD (Oklahoma) Professor Knapp teaches auditing, financial accounting and cost accounting classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His primary research interests focus on policy issues related to the professional practice of public accounting and on behavioral issues concerning the auditor-client dyad. Professor Knapp's work has appeared in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accountancy, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Advances in Accounting and the Los Angeles Times. Professor Knapp has also published four textbooks: E-Commerce: Real Issues and Cases (2003); Contemporary Auditing: Issues and Cases (1993, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2004, and 2006); Financial Accounting, Issues and Cases (1994); and Accounting, A Focus on Decision Making (1996 and 1998). Each was published by South-Western College Publishing. He is a certified public accountant and a certified management accountant. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Institute of Management Accounting, American Accounting Association and Oklahoma Society of Public Accountants. He was named the Outstanding Oklahoma Accounting Educator for 1998-99 by the Oklahoma Society of CPAs.

Address:
OU Price College of Business
John T. Steed School of Accounting
307 W. Brooks, suite 200C
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Contact:
(405) 325-5784
mknapp@ou.edu
Personal Website

MARLYS GASCHO LIPE [Top]
RATH CHAIR IN ACCOUNTING
AND PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING
 
PhD (Chicago), CPA (Illinois), CMA Professor Lipe's primary research interests lie in the area of judgment and decision making. Her work has been published in both accounting and psychology journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Psychological Bulletin and Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Professor Lipe's teaching experience includes undergraduate and master's level courses in managerial, cost and financial accounting and doctoral seminars in decision making. Professor Lipe is a member of the American Accounting Association, Institute of Management Accountants and Society for Judgment and Decision Making. She is an editor for the Accounting Review and serves on the editorial board of Accounting Horizons.

Address:
OU Price College of Business
John T. Steed School of Accounting
307 W. Brooks, suite 201E
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Contact:
(405) 325-2293
mlipe@ou.edu

ROBERT C. LIPE [Top]
KPMG CENTENNIAL PROFESSOR OF
ACCOUNTING AND
PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING

PhD (Chicago) Professor Lipe teaches financial accounting topics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and is coordinator of the School of Accounting's doctoral program. He served as the 1996-7 Academic Accounting Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as the 2007-8 Research Fellow at the Financial Accounting Standards Board. In both Fellow positions, Professor Lipe utilized his teaching and research expertise to address real-world financial reporting issues. Professor Lipe's research deals primarily with information contained in corporate financial reports. He is a past editor of Accounting Horizons.

Address:
OU Price College of Business
John T. Steed School of Accounting
307 W. Brooks, suite 212C
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Contact:
(405) 325-2401
rlipe@ou.edu


WAYNE B. THOMAS [Top]
JOHN T. STEED CHAIR IN ACCOUNTING
AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING

PhD (Oklahoma State), CPA (Oklahoma). Professor Thomas completed his BS in Accounting from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 1991 and received his MS and PhD in Accounting from Oklahoma State University in 1995. He first served on the accounting faculty of the University of Utah from 1996 to 2000 and then joined the University of Oklahoma.

His research interests are in market-based accounting research, earnings management, time-series properties of earnings and earnings components, segment disclosures, financial statement analysis and international accounting issues. He has published papers in several journals, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics,The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting Horizons. Research awards include the AAA Competitive Manuscript Award, AAA Outstanding International Accounting Dissertation, Deloitte & Touche Doctoral Fellowship, and others.

His teaching interests are in financial and international accounting. He particularly enjoys teaching introductory financial accounting, where he currently instructs more than 600 students per year. He has received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Oklahoma Society of CPAs, along with many other teaching honors at the university, college, and departmental level.

Personal Information
Professor Thomas was married to Julee in 1990 and has four children (born): Olivia (September 30, 1995), Jake (July 28, 1997), Eli (July 4, 2000), and Luke (May 18, 2004). His hobbies include basketball, tennis, golf, ping pong, crossword puzzles, and coaching little league sports.

Address:
OU Price College of Business
John T. Steed School of Accounting
307 W. Brooks, suite 212B
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Contact:
(405) 325-5789
wthomas@ou.edu

G. LEE WILLINGER [Top]
JOHN F. Y. STAMBAUGH CENTENNIAL
PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING AND
PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING

DBA (Florida State) Professor Willinger's teaching interests include financial accounting, empirical research in accounting and accounting theory. His research interests include pension accounting, contingent claims modeling in accounting, the economic impact of accounting information and the information content of accounting numbers as reflected in the capital markets. His articles have been published in Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research and Decision Sciences. Professor Willinger's background includes 10 years as a practicing certified public accountant in auditing and tax, with a specialization in securities brokerage firms. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the American Accounting Association and the American Finance Association.

Address:
OU Price College of Business
John T. Steed School of Accounting
307 W. Brooks, suite 200A
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Contact:
(405) 325-5780
lwilling@ou.edu

HAN YI [Top]
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING

PhD (Michigan State), Han joined the Michael F. Price College of Business in 2006 after completing his PhD at Michigan State. Previously, he was an economist at National Tax Service, Seoul, South Korea and a tax associate at Deloitte & Touche in Los Angeles, CA. His teaching and research interests are in the area of financial reporting - causes and consequences of accounting choices, earnings management and benchmarks, and financial reporting regulations. Currently, He is investigating whether Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has improved the information quality of pro-forma earnings and whether affiliated analysts are more likely than unaffiliated analysts to provide EPS that management can meet or beat. His research has been presented at several national academic meetings.

Contact:
(405) 325-5792
han.yi@ou.edu

Address:
OU Price College of Business
School of Accounting
307 W. Brooks, Suite 200D
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Staff
LINDA MOORE [Top]
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
DIVISION OF ACCOUNTING

Address:
OU Price College of Business
Division of Accounting
307 W. Brooks, Suite, 200J
Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Contact:
(405) 325-4221
ldmoore@ou.edu