Faculty Publications – 2025 Annual Report

William Brink, Tim Eaton, Dan Heitger, and James Zhang published “The Accounting Supply Chain Challenge: Understanding Its Root Causes and Identifying Factors and Themes for a Plan for Action” in Accounting Horizons.
Qing Burke published “Assuring the Crowd: The Role of Assurance in Securities Crowdfunding Success” in Management Science (with Daniel Wangerin and Terry Warfield, University of Wisconsin-Madison). She also published “Disclosure Readability in Unregulated Capital Markets: Evidence from Initial Coin Offerings” in the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (with Ben Li and Chi Wan, University of Massachusetts; Yakun Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong)—read our Research Feature for a summary.
Tim Eaton published an “Accounting Education Literature Review (2024) in the Journal of Accounting Education with Natalie Tatiana Churyk and Linda J. Matuszewski (Northern Illinois University). This paper ) won the American Accounting Association Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Accounting Education Research Paper award for 2025. He also published “Driving Sustainable Change: The Path Forward” at Strategic Finance with EY Student Scholar Bridget Schaber ’25.
Tim Eaton, Michael Hazel ’24 (MAcc); Jonathan Pyzoha, and James Zhang published “How Do the Accounting Profession and Higher Education Currently Approach Ethics Training?” in Issues in Accounting Education.
Jonathan Grenier published “PCAOB Inspections and Auditor Liability” in Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (with Jesse C. Robertson, University of North Texas; Chad A. Simon, Utah State University; and Jeremy M. Vinson, Clemson University).
Jonathan Pyzoha published several commentaries providing feedback to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on the board’s proposed changes to auditing standards together with colleagues at the Auditing Standards Committee of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association. He also published a Practitioner Summary titled “How Does an Audit Committee That Encourages Perspective Taking Impact Auditor and Client Judgments During Accounting Disagreements?” with Sudip Bhattacharjee (Virginia Tech), Kimberly K. Moreno (Northeastern University), and Michael Regush ’24 MAcc.
Sydney Shu published “Directors from Related Industries and the Issuance of Management Earnings Forecasts: The Role of Country-Level Institutions” at the Journal of International Accounting Research (with Herita Akamah, University of Nebraska–Lincoln; Ervin Black and Dipankar Ghosh, The University of Oklahoma). She also published “Does audit regulation improve corporate decision making? Evidence from the disclosure of tax-related key audit matters” at the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting (with Lijun (Gillian) Lei, University of North Carolina at Greensboro).
James Zhang’s paper, “Do Statutory Tax Rates Affect Cost Stickiness? eJournal of Tax Research,” is forthcoming at the eJournal of Tax Research (with Yuxin Shan, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; and Patrick Hopkins, now at Kansas State University)