I am an Associate Professor in Accounting at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. I received a Bachelor of Business in Accounting from Curtin University of Technology (Australia), a PostGraduate Diploma in Business and Administration from Curtin University and a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Waterloo (Canada); I am also a Certified Practising Accountant (Australia). Prior to completing my Ph.D., I worked as a staff accountant at Hendry Rae & Court (Chartered Accountants), a budgets and systems accountant at CurtinUniversity, and a consultant at KPMG International Headquarters (Amsterdam). I have also held prior academic appointments at Curtin University,Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), and the University of Texas at Austin.

My primary research interests focus on the performance evaluation of CEOs.  My interests span both analytical modeling and empirical analysis. I have published research in Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting & Economics, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, European Accounting Review, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Services Marketing, Behavorial Research in Accounting, Accounting Horizons, Asian Review of Accounting, and Managerial Auditing Journal.  

I currently hold Editorial Board member positions at The Accounting Review, Accounting Organizations & Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Management Accounting Research, and Accounting and Finance. I am also a member of the Board of Advisors for the KRW Research Institute. 

in 2011 I was ranked equal first in the BYU Accounting Research Rankings for management accounting research productivity over the past six years. In 2011 my co-authors and I also won a research award for the Best Paper published in the Journal of Management Accounting Research. My co-authored work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. A list of my recent articles and working papers are available at http://ssrn.com/author=298310. Details of Google Scholar citations of my work can be accessed at my Google Scholar profile. I recently taped two presentations on my current research interests for the Fuqua Faculty Conversations series. My complete vita can be accessed at: http://bit.ly/rse1Yr. 

I teach an MBA course in managerial accounting at the Fuqua School of Business in the Full-Time and Weekend Executive Programs. In 2011 Bloomberg Business Week recognized me in the Top 5 Most Popular Business Professors across all disciplines in the Top 30 business schools in the US and I was the only Accounting professor named in the Top 10. In October 2011, I was named the Financial Times “Professor of the Week”.  At Fuqua I have received the the Excellence in Elective Course Teaching Award in the FullTime MBA Program in four consecutive years from 2009 to 2012.  I have also received the Daimler-Chrysler Award for Innovation and Excellence in Core Course Teaching (FullTime MBA Program) and twice received the Excellence in Teaching Award for a Core Course in the Weekend Executive MBA program at Fuqua.

Outside of Fuqua, my wife is a faculty member who teaches auditing in UNC's Master of Accounting Program.  My daughter and son attend Jordan High School and St Thomas More Catholic School, respectively. As a family, we love to travel and are avid fans of college sports, footy, cricket (actually, that's just me), Fuquavision (especially this favorite created by Robb Stey), and meat pies (not so much my wife).