34 faculty and 18 courses in Accounting at University of Connecticut.
- Guojin Gong, Professor & Deloitte Foundation Fellow h-index 25
In financial reporting and corporate governance, with a focus on executive compensation and disclosure choices. Her work has been published in leading academic journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economic
Notable: “Investor Sophistication and the Mispricing of Accruals” (2003) · 414 citations
- John Elliott, Former Dean & Auran J. Fox Chair in Accounting h-index 19
Notable: “Evidence from Auditors about Managers' and Auditors' Earnings Management Decisions” (2002) · 1,005 citations
- David Weber, Professor h-index 17
- George Plesko, KPMG Professor & Department Head h-index 16
Notable: “The Relation Between Financial and Tax Reporting Measures of Income” (2001) · 410 citations
- Todd Kravet, Associate Professor & PhD Director h-index 13
Include: mergers and acquisitions, economic consequences of financial reporting, and measuring accounting quality. His research has been published in leading journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies
Notable: “Textual risk disclosures and investors’ risk perceptions” (2013) · 665 citations
- Steven Utke, Associate Professor h-index 12
Taxation Private Equity/Hedge Funds Disclosure Auditing Institutional Owners Selected Publications “Noncompliance with Mandatory Disclosure Requirements: The Magnitude and Determinants of Undisclosed Permanently Reinvested Earnings
Notable: “Common Institutional Ownership and Earnings Management*” (2020) · 286 citations
- Ying Zhou, Associate Professor h-index 12
Financial misreporting, insider trading, and the role of gatekeepers in capital markets. Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as The Accounting Review , Contemporary Accounting Research , Review of Accou
Notable: “3D Printed All‐Natural Hydrogels: Flame‐Retardant Materials Toward Attaining Green Sustainability” (2023) · 110 citations
- Youli Zou, Associate Professor h-index 11
Various stakeholders’ role in shaping financial reporting and economic consequences of accounting regulation. Publications “ Consequences of the Expanded Audit Report Following the IAASB Standards: Evidence from Hong Kong and Mainla
Notable: “Labor unemployment insurance and earnings management” (2015) · 168 citations
- Alina Lerman, Associate Professor h-index 10
The role of accounting information in capital markets, investor sophistication, corporate mandatory and voluntary disclosure, and accounting regulation. Selected Publications : “The SEC Review of Earnings Conference Calls” with Thom
Notable: “The new Form 8-K disclosures” (2009) · 212 citations
- Yanhua Sunny Yang, Associate Professor h-index 9
Notable: “Earnings Smoothing Activities of Firms to Manage Credit Ratings*” (2012) · 195 citations
- Nina Xu, Assistant Professor h-index 7
Es on mechanisms that influence investor protection and market efficiency, particularly in the areas of auditing, the regulatory environment, and information processing costs. Prior to entering academia, she served as a controller at Camero
Notable: “Tick Size and Financial Reporting Quality in Small‐Cap Firms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment” (2020) · 73 citations
- Subprasiri Siriviriyakul, Associate Professor in-Residence h-index 6
Financial reporting quality, empirical measurement of earnings manipulation Biography Subprasiri (Jackie) Siriviriyakul is an Associate Professor in-Residence at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on empirical financial acc
Notable: “Who's the Fairest of Them All? Evidence from Closed-End Funds” (2015) · 58 citations
- Frank Murphy, Assistant Professor h-index 4
Es on understanding the role of taxation in shaping the decisions of firms and investors, using empirical methods and archival data. It spans three themes: international taxation and multinational corporations, investor-level taxes and trad
Notable: “Foreign Employment, Income Shifting, and Tax Uncertainty” (2018) · 22 citations
- Li Fang, Assistant Professor-in-Residence h-index 3
Notable: “Accounting Standard Precision, Corporate Governance, and Accounting Restatements” (2018) · 10 citations
- Joshua Racca, Academic Director & Associate Professor h-index 1
Notable: “Pacioli, Profit, and Positivism: How Inherited Professional and Academic Traditions Have Stymied Accounting Scholarship” (2017) · 6 citations
- Arthur Schmeiser, Instructor in-Residence
- Brendan Williams, Adjunct Faculty
- Carlos Fernandez Varela, Instructor in-Residence
- Jessica Edwards, Adjunct Faculty
- Jonathan Heller, Adjunct Faculty
- Justin Marcarelli, Adjunct Faculty
- Katie Florian, Adjunct Faculty
- Leanne Adams, Instructor in-Residence
- Mark Caplan, Adjunct Faculty
- Mike Willenborg, Richard F. Kochanek Professor
Financial Accounting, Auditing Biography Dr. Willenborg is the Richard F. Kochanek Professor of Accounting in the School of Business. He has published in Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Acco
- Nicholas Misenti, Adjunct Faculty
- Patrick Lee, Adjunct Faculty
- Ricki Livingston, Assistant Professor in-Residence
- Stephen Pedneault, Adjunct Faculty
- Suzanne Cansler, Instructor in-Residence
Financial Accounting Governmental Accounting Global Financial Reporting Accounting Information Systems Publications and Presentations Cansler, Suzanne. (2024). Generative AI Can Enhance Learning in Higher Education , Journal of Government F
- Tara Vakil, Academic Director & Assistant Department Head
The effects of standard-setting, regulation, and governance on disclosure and financial statement quality. Education/Professional Certification Ph.D., Accounting, Texas A&M University, 2019 M.S., Management Information Systems
- Vishal Baloria, Associate Professor
- Wei Chen, Assistant Professor
Empirical financial accounting, with a focus on financial reporting, disclosure, and methodological issues. Google Scholar: Wei Chen
- Will Docimo, Assistant Professor
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.