Jennifer R. Joe

Biography

Jennifer R. Joe, Ph.D., CPA (NY, inactive), is the Whitney Family Professor of Accounting and Cohen Family Lerner Director of Diversity at the University of Delaware. She is an award-winning researcher whose work examines how key institutional factors impact the quality of corporate financial reporting including audit litigation, regulations, audit quality and data analytics tools, and the role of cognition in decisions using accounting information. Jennifer is actively engaged with the accounting profession and business community. She is a frequent presenter and keynote speaker at corporate and academic events on accounting and diversity issues. Jennifer has significant experience teaching accounting, auditing and internal controls at national universities and corporate professional education programs. She enjoys volunteering on academic and civic boards and advocating for inclusive excellence in higher education.

Education

• Ph.D. in accounting, University of Pittsburgh
• B.B.A. in accounting, Bernard M. Baruch College
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), New York

Select Publications

• “Man versus Machine: Complex Estimates and Auditor Reliance on Artificial Intelligence” with Ben Commerford, Sean Dennis, and Jenny Wang, 2021, conditionally accepted at Journal of Accounting Research
• “The Effect of Auditor Reporting Choice and Audit Committee Oversight Strength on Management Financial Disclosure Decisions” with S. Fuller and B. Luippold. 2021, forthcoming, The Accounting Review
• “Does susceptibility to the numerosity heuristic impact juror assessments auditors’ liability?” with Kerri-Ann Sanderson and Benjamin Luippold. 2021, forthcoming, Contemporary Accounting Research
• “Towards a more inclusive accounting academy” with H. Brown-Liburd. 2020. Issues in Accounting Education
• “Audit Partners’ Judgments and Challenges in the Audit for Internal Control over Financial Reporting” with J. Cohen, G. Trompeter and J. Thibodeau. 2020. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory
• “Analyzing Behavioral Accounting Research” in The Routledge Companion to Behavioral Research In Accounting. 2017. Edited by Theresa Libby and Linda Throne.
• “Use of High Quantification Evidence in Fair Value Audits: Do Auditors Stay in their Comfort Zone?” with Scott Vandervelde and Yi-Jing Wu. 2017. The Accounting Review
• “3 ways Black people say their white co-workers and managers can support them and be an antidote to systemic racism” 2021. The Conversation. Republished by Yahoo News

Awards & Honors

• American Accounting Association (AAA) Presidential Scholar, 2021
• Best Paper, AAA Issues in Accounting Education, 2021
• McLaughlin Prize for Ethics in Accounting Research, 2020
• Ph.D. Project Accounting Trailblazer Award, 2016
• Editorial board member, The Accounting Review, 2020-2023
• Editorial board member, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 2020–2023
• Center for Audit Quality-AAA Auditor Access Scientific Committee, 2019–2024
• Editor, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 2014–2017
• International Association for Accounting Education & Research Grant, 2016
• Center for Audit Quality Research Grant, 2012, 2009
• AICPA Best Manuscript Award
• American Accounting Association (AAA) ABO Section Outstanding Dissertation Award
• KPMG Doctoral Scholar
• AICPA Doctoral Fellow