Accounting Department

Professor Adhikari teaches financial and international accounting and conducts research focused on determinants of international accounting diversity, international accounting harmonization and accounting infrastructure in emerging markets. Professo... [More]

Professor Bedford teaches financial accounting, managerial and intermediate accounting, corporate financial reporting and financial statement analysis at the undergraduate and graduate level. She has extensive industry accounting experience in the re... [More]

Professor Duru teaches management accounting to undergraduate and graduate students with emphasis on how organizations use accounting information to create value in a dynamic business environment. His main research interest focuses on the use and imp... [More]

Professor Williamson teaches a number of subjects related to taxation, and is Chair of the Accounting and Taxation Department and Director of the Graduate Tax Program. He has also served as Adjunct Professor of Law at American University’s Washington... [More]

Professor Lindsay has over 20 years experience in an executive position in a global finance function for a  multi-billion dollar corporation.   In this role, she led significant corporate business proces... [More]

Professor Sampson's teaching and research focus on taxation, tax policy, legislative and judicial foundations of income tax, and real estate taxation.  He served on the Real Estate Tax Problems Committee of the Tax Se... [More]

Professor Thompson teaches financial accounting and financial reporting. His research focuses mainly on the usefulness for equity valuation of reported accounting numbers and proposed alternatives.  Professor Thompson has taught at a num... [More]

Yijiang Zhao is currently assistant professor of accounting at the Kogod School of Business, American University. He has taught introductory financial and managerial accounting courses to both undergraduate and MBA students. His research interests in... [More]

Yinqi Zhang is an Assistant Professor in Accounting at the Kogod School of Business of American University. Her main research interest is in the determinants of audit quality and the impacts of regulatory policies on audit quality. Her teaching inter... [More]

A graduate of American University's Kogod School of Business, Professor Marcum received her undergraduate degree in Accounting and her Master of Science in Taxation and began teaching accounting at AU in 1999. She spent nine years working in public a... [More]