Accounting and Finance (ACCT, ACFI)

Honors: An Honors Program in accounting is offered for qualified students; see department head for details.

Department Head: Afshad J. Irani

Faculty 

First date is the year in which the faculty member began regular faculty service at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.

Aliaa I. Bassiouny, Ph.D.—(2018)-2019
Lawrence Term Associate Professor of Finance
Ph.D., ESADE Business School

Scott J. Boylan, Ph.D.—(1999)-2009
Professor of Accounting
Ph.D., Ohio State University

Elicia P. Cowins, Ph.D.—(2015)-2015
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Ph.D., University of North Carolina

Stephan A. Fafatas, Ph.D.—(2006)-2012
Associate Professor of Accounting
Ph.D., University of Colorado

Megan F. Hess, Ph.D.—(2012)-2019
Associate Professor of Accounting
Ph.D., University of Virginia

Scott A. Hoover, Ph.D.—(2000)-2015
A. Stevens Miles Professor of Banking and Finance
Ph.D., Indiana University

Afshad J. Irani, Ph.D.—(2010)-2016
Professor of Accounting
Ph.D., Penn State University

George W. Kester, D.B.A.—(2000)-2000
Mamie Fox Twyman Martel Professor of Finance
D.B.A., University of Virginia

Elizabeth Goad Oliver, Ph.D.—(1991)-2003
Lewis Whitaker Adams Professor of Accounting and Associate Dean of the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics
Ph.D., Texas A&M University

Colin D. Reid, Ph.D.—(2015)-2019
Associate Professor of Accounting
Ph.D., University of Tennessee

Lloyd D. Tanlu, D.B.A.—(2018)-2021
Associate Professor of Accounting
D.B.A., Harvard University