Emily Lindsay

Executive-in-Residence
Department of Accounting and Taxation

• Professor Lindsay is Director of the Master of Science in Accounting program. She teaches Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Seminar in Accounting Theory, and Management Accounting. 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 process operations related to corporate accounting shared services centers, including employment taxation, payroll, disbursements, banking services, travel-related programs, and stock compensation plans. She was the business process owner of four enterprise -wide corporate systems and 100 related PC –based distributed systems and interfaces. Lindsay also worked as an Auditor at the US Government Accountability Office. She has served on two national advisory committees to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and currently serves on the IRS Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee. She has delivered business presentations on best practices, employment related legislative issues, and disaster recovery. She is the Faculty Advisor to the AU Toastmasters Club and a Faculty Brother of Alpha Kappa Psi.

• Degrees

  M.S. in Accounting, American University; B.A., Dickinson College; CPA
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