Author Description

About the Author About our authors Elizabeth A. Gordon is a professor of accounting at the Fox School of Business at Temple University and a Merves Research Fellow. She received her doctorate from Columbia University, master’s degree in business administration from Yale University, and bachelor of science degree in accounting with highest distinction from Indiana University. Dr. Gordon specializes in the areas of international financial reporting and corporate governance. Her research is published in top journals including Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. She serves as an editor of Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting and an editor of Journal of International Accounting Research. Dr. Gordon is a past president of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association and serves as the vice president of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research, and Chair of the Department of Accounting at the Fox School of Business. Dr. Gordon has taught courses in financial accounting and international accounting at the graduate and undergraduate levels, receiving a number of teaching awards. She has coauthored accounting readings for the CFA Institute, integrating IFRS and US GAAP. She was an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, and interned at the US Office of Management and Budget before entering academia. Dr. Gordon is a CPA in the State of Maryland. She has been on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, the Rutgers Business School, and a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Jana S. Raedy is an associate professor of accounting, associate dean of the Master of Accounting Program, and the Ernst & Young Scholar in Accounting at the Kenan-Flager Business School at the University of N