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Faculty ActivitiesVairam Arunachalam (PhD, Illinois ’91) servesas PricewaterhouseCoopers / Joseph A. SilvosoDistinguished Professor & Director of the School ofAccountancy. His teaching interests are in the areas ofFraud Examination and Forensic Accounting. Some of hisrecent publications have been in Journal of InternationalBusiness and Cultural Studies and in a co-edited book titledEconomy and Finance of India (Springer Publications).Professor Arunachalam is a member of the AccountancyBoard of Advisors for the Gies College of Business at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and of theBoard of Regents for the Institute of Certified ManagementAccountants. He has been actively involved with AACSBaccreditation, most recently chairing the accountingaccreditation review team to the University of Florida. Inaddition, he serves on the Missouri Society of CPAs(MOCPA) Transformation Taskforce and MOCPAEducation Foundation. He is also actively involved inorganizing alumni and leadership visits, guest speakers,and forums such as Stephen Covey’s Speed of Trust, OrinEthics Symposium (featuring Jerry Carlson in 2019) andDawdy Speaker Series (featuring white collar crime andtechnology regulation expert Kathleen McGee in 2020).He is actively involved with alumni and advancement staffin fundraising efforts for the School of Accountancy.Professor Arunachalam serves on the University ofMissouri Resource Allocation Model Committee and RevenueGovernance Oversight Subcommittee.Leah Baer (PhD, University ofColorado Boulder ’18) is an assistantprofessor. She teaches AccountingInformation Systems. Her primaryresearch interests focus on corporategovernance, in particular how incentivesof executives and directors influencetheir behavior. Leah has presented her research at variousAmerican Accounting Association (AAA) meetings as wellas at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS).One of her coauthored papers was featured on theHarvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governanceand Financial Regulation. She has also served as areviewer for the AAA annual and mid-year meetings. Shemaintains her CPA license in the state of Colorado.4School of AccountancyElise Bartley (MAcc, Universityof Missouri ’08), Assistant TeachingProfessor, has taught IntermediateFinancial Accounting, AdvancedAccounting, Fraud Examination,Cost Accounting, and AccountingEthics at Mizzou. She currentlyserves as the President of the Missouri Association ofAccounting Educators, is a member of the AmericanAccounting Association and the Missouri Societyof Certified Public Accountants, and is a licensedCPA in the state of Missouri. Before beginning herteaching career, Elise worked for Ernst & Youngas an auditor out of the Kansas City office.Mahfuz Chy (PhD, University ofToronto ’18) is an assistant professorof accountancy. He completed MS inStatistics from Virginia Tech and MSin Mathematical Finance from UNCCharlotte. Previously, he worked as astatistician in Raleigh, North Carolina.His research interests broadly span financial and auditingarchival topics. Some specific areas of his current researchfocus on real effects of accounting/auditing, managerialshort-termism, debt contracting, and unintendedconsequences of accounting/auditing regulations.Keith Czerney (PhD, University ofIllinois ’15; MAPC, Villanova University’06; BBA, University of Michigan ’05)is an assistant professor in the School ofAccountancy where he teaches AuditingTheory and Practice I. Keith’s researchfocuses on current issues in auditing anddisclosure using archival-based research methods. Hisresearch on explanatory language included in audit reportsis published in The Accounting Review, ContemporaryAccounting Research, and Auditing: A Journal ofPractice and Theory. Prior to joining the faculty atthe University of Missouri, Keith spent three years asan assistant professor in the School of Accountancy atthe University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he taughtgraduate courses on financial accounting theory andfinancial statement analysis, and five years as an externalauditor in public accounting. Keith enjoys spending timeoutdoors with his wife, Kim, and their three children.Will Demeré (PhD, Michigan State’17) is an assistant professor and theRubinBrown Faculty Scholar. Hisresearch focuses on performanceevaluation and incentives, corporategovernance, and institutional ownership.His research has been publishedin Management Accounting Research, ManagementScience, and the Harvard Business Review. Will alsopreviously worked as an external auditor for Deloitte,taught at Virginia Tech, and is a CPA (Virginia).During his time at Virginia Tech and MichiganState, Will taught courses in managerial accounting,financial accounting, and information systems. Healso worked with study abroad programs, teaching inFrance, Germany, and Belize. He currently teachesadvanced auditing in the School of Accountancy.Kari Gingrich, CPA (MAcc,University of Iowa ’08) began hercareer in higher education teachingintroductory accounting and economicscourses at the University of Iowa.Kari worked for KPMG in Chicagoand Des Moines as an auditor in themanufacturing sector, before relocating to Columbia withher husband and son to pursue a career in teaching.She began teaching the Introduction to Federal IncomeTaxation course at MU in 2010, and has taughtIntroduction to Accounting, Financial AccountingConcepts, Cost Accounting, Governmental Accounting,and Intermediate Financial Accounting at Missouri in theyears following. Kari also works as a job coach to studentsinvolved with business internships through MU’sProfessional Development Program. Professor Gingrichenjoys the opportunity to work closely with students fromthe Trulaske College of Business as they enter theirworking lives.Kari is a licensed CPA in the state of Missouri, servesas Board Secretary for the Missouri Association ofAccounting Educators, and serves as Board Treasurer forThe Language Tree, a language immersion school inColumbia.Matt Glendening (PhD, Universityof Iowa ’12), assistant professor, teachesintermediate financial accounting andthe international accounting course thatconcludes with a student trip to London,UK. Professor Glendening’s researchfocuses on financial reporting andcorporate governance, and his work has been published inThe Accounting Review, Journal of International BusinessStudies, and Accounting Horizons. He is an activemember of the American Accounting Association (AAA).Kristen Hockman (MAcc, Universityof Missouri ’00), Associate TeachingProfessor, currently teaches ComputerBased Data Systems, AccountingInformation Systems, GovernmentalAccounting, Audit Theory and PracticeI, and Advanced Audit. She continuesto serve as the Course Coordinator for the ComputerBased Data Systems course, which typically offers 16-20sections per semester. Professor Hockman is the CampusCoordinator for the Becker CPA Review course. Inthis role, she informs students about the CPA Exam,assists students with the CPA Exam application process,schedules the review classes, instructs an online sectionof the review course for Mizzou students each semester,and provides students with support and guidance as theyprepare for the CPA Exam. She serves as the FacultyAdvisor for Mizzou’s Beta Alpha Psi accounting fraternity.She also serves as the Faculty Advisor for Mizzou’sAlpha Phi Omega service fraternity, an organization thatfosters leadership, friendship, and service on campusand throughout the community. Professor Hockmanis a member of the American Accounting Association,the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants,the Government Finance Officers Association, and theAssociation of Government Accountants. She is alsoa licensed CPA in the state of Missouri. She enjoysfostering relationships with students, faculty and staff atMizzou and other universities, alumni, and accountingprofessionals. Kristen and her husband, Jade, have threechildren and own two martial arts schools in Columbia.She loves taking martial arts classes with her kids andspending time with her family and friends outside of work.2019 Newsmagazine5

Faculty ActivitiesInder Khurana (PhD, Arizona StateUniversity ’89) is Geraldine TrulaskeChair of Accountancy. He teachesdoctoral seminars and the capstonecourse focusing on business strategy,financial statement analysis, andvaluation in the150-hour accountancyprogram. He continues to conduct research in thefinancial and auditing areas. He was appointed to theEditorial Review Board of the Journal of InternationalBusiness Studies, effective January 2020. His coauthoredpaper titled “Which Analysts Benefited Most fromMandatory IFRS Adoption in Europe?,” published inthe 2017 issue of Journal of International AccountingResearch, received the best paper award of theInternational Accounting Section at the 2019 annualmeeting of the American Accounting Association. Hisresearch papers were presented at the annual meetingsof the American and European Accounting Associations.Hoyoun Kyung (PhD, Universityof Texas at Dallas ’18) is an assistantprofessor. He teaches intermediatefinancial accounting to juniors inthe School of Accountancy. Hisresearch focuses on corporatedisclosure regulation, securitymarket transparency, and corporate governance relatedissues. Hoyoun has presented his papers at severalconferences such as AAA Annual Meeting and FARSMidyear Meeting. His work has been featured inHarvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance,Columbia Law School’s Blog of Corporation andthe Capital Markets, and Oxford Business Law Blog.He completed BBA from Korea University andMA in Economics from New York University.Elaine Mauldin (PhD, Nebraska’97), is the BKD Professor. Sheteaches a doctoral seminar on researchmethods and a graduate course usingdata analytic tools in the audit ofinternal controls. Professor Mauldinalso conducts research in auditingand corporate governance. For example, this year herproject examining the determinants and consequencesof disclosure of the quantitative sensitivity of criticalaccounting estimates in MD&A was published in TheAccounting Review. She is also working on severalnew projects, including the information content of6School of Accountancydisclosure of changes in internal control and howexternal reviewers assess auditor’s use of data andanalytics techniques in the audit. She has publishedpapers in leading accounting journals such as TheAccounting Review, Journal of Accounting & Economics,Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: AJournal of Practice & Theory, Journal of InformationSystems, and Accounting Organizations & Society. Sheis also serving the profession as the President-Electof the American Accounting Association. In additionto serving as a reviewer for various journals, ProfessorMauldin is an editor for The Accounting Review.Stevie Neuman (PhD, Texas A&MUniversity ’14) is an assistant professorand the Brown Smith Wallace FacultyScholar. She teaches the introductorytaxation course. Her primary researchexamines firms’ tax planning decisionsand how those decisions affect firms’information environments (primarily through financialreporting and internal control quality) and investors’assessments of firm value. Specifically, Professor Neumanis interested in the volatility of firms’ effective tax ratesand tax risk and the quality of firms’ financial statementsand information environments, especially the effectsof tax services provided by audit firms and tax-relatedreporting decisions. She has published her research inContemporary Accounting Research and The Journalof the American Taxation Association and has two forthcoming articles that will be available in 2020. ProfessorNeuman is an active member of the American AccountingAssociation (AAA) and the American Taxation Association(ATA). During the 2018-2019 academic year, she servedon the editorial board for The Journal of the AmericanTaxation Association, served on the JATA ConferenceCommittee, and reviewed submissions for both the AAAannual meeting and the ATA mid-year meeting. Shealso serves as an ad hoc reviewer for The AccountingReview, Contemporary Accounting Research, AccountingHorizons, and the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, andFinance. Professor Neuman enjoys interacting with thestudents, faculty, and staff at Mizzou, as well as the alumniand accounting professionals that invest in the program.Andrea Pawliczek (PhD, Universityof Colorado, ’17; MBA, DukeUniversity, ’08; BA, Emory University,2002) is an Assistant Professor ofAccountancy and the BKD FacultyScholar. Andrea teaches intermediatefinancial accounting to juniors in theaccountancy program. Her research focuses on executivecompensation, governance, and institutional investors.She is active in the American Accounting Association(AAA), where she has presented papers and served as areviewer and discussant at AAA meetings. She has alsoserved as a reviewer for several academic journals.Raynolde Pereira (PhD, Arizona ’01)currently holds the Stephen FurbacherProfessorship. He teaches in the areaof taxation and financial reporting. Hisresearch interests primarily involvecorporate tax, accounting and disclosurequality, and international accountingand auditing. He has also carried out research in theareas of corporate financing, international auditing,and not-for-profit and regulatory reporting. His workhas been published in leading accounting, finance,and law journals such as the Journal of Financial andQuantitative Analysis, Journal of Accounting Research,the Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies,Contemporary Accounting Research, ManagementScience, and the Journal of Law and Economics. Hiswork has been presented at international, national, andregional accounting and finance conferences. He is anactive member of the American Accounting Associationwith involvement in the international accounting andtax sections. He continues to serve as an ad hoc reviewerto several top accounting and finance journals.Chris Prestigiacomo (PhD,University of Missouri ’95), AssociateTeaching Professor, Nikolai TeachingScholar. He serves as the coordinatorof the School’s (and College’s) AACSBmaintenance of accreditation efforts.He has taught the first and secondprinciples courses (2036/2037), intro (2010) cost/managerial (3347), the intermediate financial coursefor finance majors (4356), the capstone (8450), theMBA intro course, two MBA modules he developed infinancial statement analysis and a hybrid (partially online)course in investments and financial statement analysisfor the execMBA Program. Chris recently developedthe capstone class for our online MAcc Program and anonline version of 2036. Next will be an online version ofthe MBA intro course. He was honored as the: FacultyMember of the Year (May 2008) by the students of theTrulaske School of Business, Teacher of the Year (June2009) by the Kansas City Alumni, Williams-KeepersTeaching Excellence Award (2008 and 2010), the LambdaChi Alpha Professor of the Year (2010), the Bruce andPam Walker Outstanding Faculty Service Award (2012),the Outstanding Teaching Award for the execMBAProgram (2016, 2019), the Accounting School AdvisoryBoard’s Teaching Excellence Award (2018) and FacultyMember of the Year by the graduating accountingstudents (2013). He has earned the Chartered FinancialAnalyst (CFA) designation as well as that of CertifiedManagement Accountant (CMA). He served as an editorfor Cengage Publishing. Chris also serves as the advisorto the MU chapter of N

in Mathematical Finance from UNC-Charlotte. Previously, he worked as a statistician in Raleigh, North Carolina. His research interests broadly span financial and auditing archival topics. Some specific areas of his current research focus on real effects of accounting/auditing, m