About The Author
Alexander J. Sannella
Dr. Alexander J. Sannella is currently a professor of Accounting and Information Systems at the Rutgers Business School and the Director of the MBA in Professional Accounting Program, the Director of the Master of Accountancy in Professional Accounting, and the Director of the Rutgers Business School Teaching Excellence Center. He earned his Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance from New York University and is a New York State Certified Public Accountant. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Rutgers University.
Dr. Sannella served on the faculty of New York University as an Accounting Instructor at the Stern School of Business and as an Associate Professor of Accounting at Iona College’s LaPenta School of Business.
He was also an independent consultant working on many projects with other public accounting firms, bankruptcy trustees, and leasing divisions of major insurance companies. He also consulted the Line of Business Program at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC. Dr. Sannella is a Financial Reporting Executive Committee (FinREC) member at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Dr. Sannella has over 45 years of teaching experience at the university level and over 35 years of experience in developing and teaching investment and commercial bank training programs.
Elizabeth A. Gordon
Dr. Elizabeth A. Gordon is a professor of accounting at the Fox School of Business at Temple University and a Merves Research Fellow. She earned her doctorate from Columbia University, a master’s degree in business administration from Yale University, and a bachelor of science degree in accounting with the highest distinction from Indiana University.
Dr. Gordon specializes in the areas of international financial reporting and corporate governance. Her research has been published in top journals, including The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.
Dr. Gordon has taught courses in financial accounting and international accounting at the undergraduate and graduate levels, receiving several teaching awards. She has coauthored accounting readings for the CFA Institute, integrating IFRS and US GAAP. She was an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, and interned at the US Office of Management and Budget before entering academia.
Jana S. Raedy
Dr. Jana S. Raedy is the associate dean of the Master of Accounting Program, an associate professor of accounting, and the Ernst & Young Scholar in Accounting at the Kenan-Flager Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She got her bachelor's and master of science degrees from the University of Kentucky and her doctorate from the Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Raedy’s research primarily focuses on issues in international financial reporting and areas in which financial reporting and taxation intersect. She has taught many courses in financial reporting at the graduate level, including core financial reporting (both introductory and intermediate accounting), international financial reporting, and forensic accounting. For over 15 years, she has taught a self-developed course in applied financial accounting research, heavily emphasizing judgment and decision-making.
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