Professor and Chair of the Department of Accounting, Fox School of Business at Temple University, USA (Co-Investigator)
Dr Elizabeth A. Gordon is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Accounting at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, USA. She specializes in the areas of financial reporting and international accounting and reporting. Dr Gordon has taught courses in financial accounting and international accounting at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels, receiving a number of teaching awards. Her well-received textbook, Intermediate Accounting, recently entered its third edition.
Her research is published in top journals in her field including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, the Review of Accounting Studies, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. She serves as an editor, in the Institutional Perspectives Section, of the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, and of the Journal of International Accounting Research.
Dr. Gordon is the President of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research and is a Past-President of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA). She is a Past-Chair of the AAA New Faculty Consortium. Dr Gordon was an auditor with PwC and interned at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. She received her Doctorate from Columbia University, a Master’s in Business Administration from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science in accounting with the highest distinction from Indiana University. Dr. Gordon is a licensed CPA. 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.