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SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
ADVISORY BOARD CURRENT MEMBERS
Rachel Allen, M&A Transaction Manager, UPS Gina Auld, Finance Director, City of Kennesaw Charles Bailey, Member, Warren Averett Bruce Benator, Partner, WBL CPAs + Advisors Michael Bohling, CEO, HLB Gross Collins, P.C. Jo deRuiter, Director, Business Applications, Aisling Dynamics Business Solution Jonathan Fowler, Partner, Deloitte, LLP Aaron Gagnon, Partner, CAO, McKinsey & Company
Lori Kaczynski, SVP, Chief Audit, Risk, and Compliance Officer, Graphic Packaging International, Inc. Megan Makar, Audit Partner, Carr, Riggs & Ingram LLC Scott McGee, Partner, KPMG, LLP Matt Menerey, Controller, Honey Baked Ham Anne Morris, Principal, Windham Brannon, P.C. Alana Mueller, Partner, Financial Reporting and Assurance, Bennett Thrasher, LLP Denise O’Connell, Partner, Nichols, Cauley, & Associates, LLC Brian Pendley, Partner, Ernst & Young, LLP Chase Phillips, Director, CliftonLarsonAllen
Thomas Prevatt, Partner, Aprio Taron Ragan, Senior Finance Manager, Microsoft Luis Reyes, Partner and Southeast Regional Market Leader, Cherry Bekaert Boyd Search, CEO, The Georgia Society of CPAs Nichole Smith, Director, Cox Enterprises, Inc. – Real Estate Larry Stevens Partner (Retired), PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP Roderick Williams
The Summer Faculty Research Fellowships initiative encourages high-quality research among the full-time faculty of the School of Accountancy. Up to two fellowships are awarded every year, providing a research release of $10,000 in the summer. Dr. John Abernathy with the project: Does it Pay for Organizations to Have Access to a Workforce with Greater Information Technology Human Capital, and Dr. Andrew Trotman with the project: How Firm Retention Initiatives, AI, and Offshoring Have Transformed Auditors’ Busiest Work Period , were the recipients for Summer 2025. For Summer 2026, Dr. Vineeta Sharma was selected for the project: Not All Internal Auditors are Created Equal: CAE Attributes and Effectiveness of the Internal Audit Function.
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING & PUBLIC POLICY (JAPP) ANNUAL CONFERENCE In June 2025, the SOA hosted the Journal of Accounting & Public Policy Annual Conference that was organized, chaired, and moderated by Dr. Divesh Sharma of SOA. Researchers from around the world participated in a program that showcased innovative papers on regulatory effects on Corporate Social Responsibility and corporate abuse, man vs. machine (AI) in audit judgments, and information effects on capital markets. The program began with an interesting and stimulating keynote on the role of AI in external auditing by Professor Robert Knechel. In addition to the research presentations, the conference, for the first time in its history, featured a practitioner panel which focused on AI in internal auditing. Panelists were chief audit executives from large, publicly listed Fortune 500 companies. Insights from the panel and the keynote revealed issues and thought- provoking questions about how AI can influence both internal and external auditing practices, regulations, and society in general. Dr. Brad Schafer of the SOA moderated the internal audit panel.
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Tax Manager, Moore Colson
Stephanie Miller, Principal Lecturer Sunay Mutlu, Professor Jennifer Smith, Senior Lecturer
Shannon Shumate, MAcc Program
Kim Hancock, VP Controller of Accounting, Aveanna Healthcare
Director Andrew Trotman, Tenure and Associate Professor
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