Mary Sasmaz has increased her presence in the financial literacy space. In the fall of 2024, she helped graduate students of audiology and speech-language pathology, participants in the IMPACT program, gain a better understanding of debt and debt management. She also led a financial literacy workshop for the UBeyondCWRU program and a personal finance workshop for interns from across the nation who participated in the Summer on the Cuyahoga Internship Program. Last year, we also reported that Mary was part of a research team that created an open access software to Advance Active Learning, Automate Grading and Reduce Cheating in Excel assignments. This year, they presented the technology to the accounting education community with the publication of their article in Issues in Accounting Education.
Tim Fogarty's research appeared at the annual meetings of the American Accounting Association held in Chicago in August. Topics covered by this work included risk management, the nature of non-Big 4 firms, achieving partnership in public accounting and regulatory history. Professor Fogarty has also recently turned his attention to practitioner publications. His 2025 work includes articles on quality management standards, overtime compensation in public accounting, income tax collections and the sustainability of the IRS.
When it rains, it pours, and that’s what happened with Professor Melissa Carlisle’s research this year! Melissa had three publications this year—one was presented in the top discipline journal for audit research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. Another made it into the Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal—this journal’s Scopus CiteScore is tied for first place for accounting journals in the most recent ranking.
Yufan Dong, in collaboration with faculty from economics, finance, operations and organizational behavior departments, is conducting a field experiment examining the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) use on students' learning in introductory management courses. Over 500 undergraduate students in introductory accounting and economics courses are participating in the semester-long field experiment. The results will provide insights into how and when AI can be effectively integrated into classrooms to benefit learning.
Tony Bucaro and two colleagues from other universities interviewed 16 controllers and chief accounting officers from some of the largest companies in the U.S., and summarized the biggest issues faced by this very important constituency, published in Accounting Horizons. Unsurprisingly, technology and the talent gap in accounting were among the most critical issues identified. But these executives also worried about the future of Environmental, Social, and Governance reporting, among other things.
Heidi Blakeway-Phillips continues to bring her corporate experience into the classroom, developing cases and in-class exercises that come from her decades in the C-suite. She’s looking to prepare some of these cases for publication later this year. Heidi also remains a regular twice-yearly speaker in the strategy class, “Managing Corporate Turnarounds,” at London Business School. As one of the early turnaround practitioners in the UK, she speaks on the ongoing changes in the turnaround landscape, the various roles in turnaround and the responsibilities and challenges of being the C-suite executive responsible for getting an organization to turn the corner.
