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Current Doctoral Students

Ann Gamble is a 2003 graduate of the University of Virginia. After graduation, she worked in the Banking and Capital Markets group of PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City. Ann returned to UVa prior to joining the PhD program to obtain a MS in Accounting. Her research interests are auditing and financial accounting.

Jeremy Griffin received his Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the University of Mississippi in 1999, and his Master of Science in Accountancy degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2000. Prior to joining the PhD program, he worked at BorgWarner, Inc. and Deloitte & Touche, LLP. His research and teaching interests include judgment and decision making topics in auditing and managerial accounting. He is currently working on his dissertation, in which he examines auditors' materiality decisions.

Mary Im is a 2004 graduate of The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the PhD program, she earned MBA from Claremont Graduate University. Her research interest is earnings management. Her current projects include managers' earnings management by real activities.

Jason Matthews is a 2000 graduate of Missouri State University with a BS in Finance and a 2005 graduate of NC State University with a Master of Accounting. Prior to joining the PhD program, Jason was a lecturer at NC State University teaching Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Accounting Information Systems. Before that, he was the Chief Financial Officer of United Coal, a $275 million energy firm headquartered in Bristol, VA. His research interests include judgment and decision-making in auditing, financial statement fraud detection, and the financial reporting process.

Sean McGuire is a 2001 graduate of Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the PhD program, he worked for Ernst & Young, LLP in Dallas, Texas. His research interests include taxation and voluntary disclosure. His dissertation research investigates managers' voluntary explanations of effective tax rate declines.

Chad Simon is a 2003 graduate of Brigham Young University. His research interests include auditor decision making and financial statement fraud. His current projects include examining ways to help auditors identify fraud risks and whether audit committee compensation is associated with the quality of audit committee oversight.

Julia Yu holds a BBA in Accounting from Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University and a Master of Science in Economics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include voluntary disclosure and earnings management. She is currently examining the relation between managerial incentives and characteristics of management forecasts.

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