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Dr. DeZoort is Professor of Accounting and Accounting Advisory Board Fellow in the Culverhouse School of Accountancy at The University of Alabama. He serves as a charter member of the Advisory Council at the Academy for Ethics in Financial Reporting, as a Research Fellow at the Enterprise Risk Management Initiative at North Carolina State University, and as a Research Fellow at the Corporate Governance Center at Kennesaw State University. Dr. DeZoort’s research and teaching interests focus on audit effectiveness, fraud risk management, and governance quality. He has published over 30 articles in top academic journals, including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting Literature, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, International Journal of Auditing, and Behavioral Research in Accounting. He also is co-author of the Corporate Governance Center’s 21st Century Governance and Financial Reporting Principles. Dr. DeZoort currently serves as a member of the AICPA’s Reliability Task Force, which is focused on improving the reliability of CPAs’ audit and non-audit services. He has received numerous research grants, including a recent grant from The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation to conduct an international study of internal auditors’ fraud detection responsibilities. Dr. DeZoort is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Institute of Internal Auditors, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the National Association of Corporate Directors, and the Society for Judgment and Decision-Making | 