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School of Accountancy Conference 2015
Presenters
Douglas F. Prawitt
Doug earned his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona and is the Glen Ardis Professor of Accountancy at BYU. His research and teaching in BYU’s graduate accounting and MBA programs focus on auditing and on professional judgment. Doug has published award-winning articles in Journal of Accountancy, Internal Auditor, and CPA Journal, and has coauthored two leading auditing textbooks. His research has been published in premier academic journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and others. Doug has won several research, teaching, and "best research paper" awards, as well as BYU’s 2002 Merrill J. Bateman Student Choice Teaching Award, BYU’s 2006 Award for Distinction in Graduate Education, the Auditing Section’s 2014 Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award, and the 2013 AAA/Deloitte Wildman Medal Award recognizing the publication over a five-year time span most likely to positively impact the public accounting profession. Doug is active in the profession, having served a three-year term as a member of the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board, and is currently serving as a member of the COSO Board, which in 2013 released the first revision of its landmark 1992 Internal Control Integrated Framework. He has consulted with a variety of professional services firms, large and small.