Profile

Name: Scott N. Bronson, Ph.D., CPA

Position:
Associate Professor of Accounting
EY Director of Accounting Analytics

Contact information:
4187 Capitol Federal Hall
University of Kansas
School of Business
Lawrence, KS 66045
P: (785) 864-1043
sbronson@ku.edu
Vita

Education:
Ph.D., University of Tennessee (2006)
B.S. in Accounting, Miami University (1997)

Professor Bronson’s Bio
Scott is an Associate Professor in the School of Business at the University of Kansas. Before joining the Kansas faculty, Scott was an Assistant Professor of Accounting with the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He earned his undergraduate degree in Accountancy from Miami University in 1997 and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 2006. Before pursuing a Ph.D., Scott spent three years as an auditor with the Chicago office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. After leaving PwC, he worked for two years in the accounting department of Trans Union International.

Scott is an auditing researcher whose work focuses on how financial regulation impacts the reporting decisions of companies and their auditors. His work appears in Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting ResearchAuditing: A Journal of Practice and TheoryAccounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Directors Monthly. Scott is also an editorial board member of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory and previously served on the editorial board of The International Journal of Accounting.

Research interests: Auditing, corporate governance, internal controls, regulation

Teaching interests: Auditing, Analytics

Current course links:
Introduction to Auditing
Accounting Analytics

Analytics course resources:
SQL Resources
Alteryx Resources
Power BI Resources
Visualization Resources

Other resources:
Auditing Resources
Research Resources

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