Accounting Department

The Kogod School of Business Accounting Department oversees the instruction of all courses pertaining to accounting, taxation, and business law. In addition to their course work, accounting students have the opportunity to engage in real-world financial research and analysis.

Kogod's Washington Initiative service learning course trains students to help low-income families prepare and file their tax returns as part of the IRS's Voluntary Income Tax Assistance Program. Students staff community centers around Washington DC, simultaneously applying their knowledge and providing service. Accounting students also have the opportunity to create and publish equity research reports on small publicly held companies in the Washington metropolitan region that are not routinely covered by financial analysts.

Department Chair

Susan Krische

Susan Krische

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Associate Professor

Interim Department Chair, January 2013-Present. Professor Krische teaches financial statement analysis and conducts research on judgment and decision-making, applying experimental and archival-empirical methods to investigate the use of financ... [More]

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Accounting and Taxation Faculty

Ajay Adhikari

Ajay Adhikari

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Professor

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. In 2009-2... [More]

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Sheila Bedford

Sheila Bedford

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Executive in Residence

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]

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Augustine Duru

Augustine Duru

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Professor

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]

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Casey Evans

Casey Evans

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Adjunct Professorial Lecturer

Professor Evans teaches Forensic Accounting, Accounting Ethics, Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, and Advanced Financial Reporting. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner and has extensive industry experience h... [More]

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David Harr

David Harr

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Executive in Residence

Dr. Harr has more than 40 years of experience working with business, government, and not-for-profit organizations. He has conducted seminars with businesses, government agencies, and not-for-profit organizations on a variety of topics including budge... [More]

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Philip Jacoby

Philip Jacoby

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Associate Professor

Dr. Jacoby enjoys teaching and has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in financial accounting, managerial accounting, and auditing. His current research focuses on the internal control systems of not-for-profit organizations an... [More]

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David Kautter

David Kautter

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Executive in Residence

David Kautter is Managing Director of the Kogod Tax Center and Executive in Residence in the Department of Accounting and Taxation. He joins Kogod following a distinguished career as a partner at Ernst & Young LLP, where he held a number of key techn... [More]

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Gopal Krishnan

Gopal Krishnan

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Professor

Before joining AU, Professor Krishnan held the Perella Chair in Accounting at Lehigh University and the Northern Chapter of the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants Professorship in Public Accounting at George Mason University. He has als... [More]

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Emily Lindsay

Emily Lindsay

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Executive in Residence

Professor Lindsay is Director of the Master of Science in Accounting program. She teaches Financial Accounting and Intermediate Accounting II, and has also taught Seminar in Accounting Theory, Managerial Accounting, and Management Accounting. Lindsay... [More]

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Michael Mass

Michael Mass

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Associate Professor

Professor Michael Mass serves as director of the University Honors Program and holds a faculty appointment in AU’s Kogod School of Business. He earned a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Georgetown University and has published ... [More]

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Michael Sampson

Michael Sampson

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Professor

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 Section of the American Bar Associat... [More]

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Robert Thompson

Robert Thompson

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Associate Professor

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 number of univers... [More]

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Donald Williamson

Donald Williamson

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Professor

Professor Williamson teaches a number of subjects related to taxation, is director of the Masters of Science in Taxation degree program, and serves as executive director of the Kogod Tax Center. He has also served as Adjunct Professor of Law at Ameri... [More]

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Yinqi Zhang

Yinqi Zhang

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Assistant Professor

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 work has been ... [More]

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Yijiang Zhao

Yijiang Zhao

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Associate Professor

Yijiang Zhao is currently associate 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]

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