Professor Aasmund Eilifsen is Director of the Graduate Auditing Program and Professor in Auditing at the Department of Accounting,
Auditing, and Law, Norwegian School of Economics
and Business Administration. He received his PhD from the same
institution. He was a visiting faculty member at the University of
Washington, Seattle, and the University of Florida, Gainesville.
He has been a member of the European Accounting Association’s
(EAA) Standing Scientific Committee and serves at the
Scientific Committee of the European Auditing Research Network
(EARNet). Professor Eilifsen is on the editorial boards of
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, the International
Journal of Accounting and the International Journal of Auditing.
He has authored or co-authored over 25 articles in journals and
books, primarily in the areas of auditor judgement and decision
making, audit education and audit practice. Professor Eilifsen has
since 1999 served as the Academic Member on the Norwegian
Auditing Standards Committee and holds a part-time position as
adviser at the Norwegian Institute of Public Accountants. He has
also served as an expert witness in audit litigation cases. Professor William F. Messier, Jr holds the Kenneth and Tracy
Knauss Endowed Chair in Accounting at the Department of
Accounting, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is also the
PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor II at the Department of Accounting,
Auditing, and Law at the Norwegian School of Economics
and Business Administration. Professor Messier holds a
BBA, from Siena College, an MS from Clarkson University, and
an MBA and DBA from Indiana University. He is a CPA in
Florida and has held faculty positions at the University of Florida
(Price Waterhouse Professor) and Georgia State University
(Deloitte & Touche Professor). Professor Messier was a visiting
faculty member at SDA Bocconi in Milan and the University of
Michigan. Professor Messier served as the Academic Member of
the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board and as Chair of the
AICPA’s International Auditing Standards Subcommittee. He is a
Past-Editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and
formerly President of the Auditing Section of the American
Accounting Association. Professor Messier was the recipient of
the AAA Auditing Section’s Outstanding Educator Award (2009)
and the Distinguished Service in Auditing Award (2008). He has
also served as an expert witness in a number of audit litigation
cases. Professor Steven M. Glover is the Mary & Ellis Professor of
Accounting at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham
Young University. Professor Glover is a CPA in Utah and holds
a PhD and BS from the University of Washington and an AA in
Business from BYU – Idaho. He previously worked as an auditor
for KPMG LLP and as a director in the national office of
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Professor Glover serves on the
audit committee of a non-profit organization and has served on
the board of advisers for technology companies, and he actively
consults with public companies and public accounting firms. He
has also served as an expert witness. Professor Glover is the
President Elect of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting
Association. He has been on auditing-related task forces of
the AICPA. Professor Glover is on the editorial boards of
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, The Accounting
Review and Accounting Horizons. He has authored or coauthored
over 25 articles and books primarily focused in the
areas of auditor decision making, audit education and audit
practice. Professor Douglas F. Prawitt is the Glen Ardis Professor of
Accountancy at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham
Young University. Professor Prawitt is a CPA in Utah. He holds
a PhD from the University of Arizona, and BS and MAcc degrees
from Brigham Young University. Professor Prawitt was awarded
the Marriott School’s Teaching Excellence and Outstanding
Researcher awards in 1998 and 2000. He received the Merrill J.
Bateman Student Choice Teaching Award in 2002 and BYU’s
Wesley P. Lloyd Award for Distinction in Graduate Education in
2006. He consults actively with international and local public
accounting firms. Over the past five years he has worked
extensively with the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
(COSO) on the COSO Enterprise Risk Management Framework
and Internal Control over Financial Reporting – Guidance for
Smaller Public Companies projects. Professor Prawitt has also
served in several capacities with the American Accounting
Association and is on the editorial boards of Auditing: A Journal
of Practice & Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting and
Accounting Horizons. He has authored or co-authored over 25
articles and books, primarily in the areas of auditor judgement
and decision making, audit education and audit practice. Finally,
he served a three-year appointment to the AICPA Auditing
Standards Board from 2005–2008. |