Elizabeth Gordon

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Elizabeth Gordon

  • Fox School of Business and Management

    • Accounting

      • Professor

    • Office of the Dean

      • Senior Associate Dean

Biography

Elizabeth A. Gordon is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the Fox School. She is an Professor of Accounting, specializing in the areas of financial reporting and international accounting investigating topics such as international financial reporting standards, corporate communications, executive compensation, related party transactions, accounting restatements, market development and corporate disclosure. Her research is published in top journals in her field including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, the Review of Accounting Studies, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. She serves as an associate editor for the Journal of International Accounting Research and the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting. She is an editor, Institutional Perspectives Section, of the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, and an editor of the Journal of International Accounting Research.

Dr. Gordon is the President of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) and the Past-president of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA). She is a Past-chair of the AAA New Faculty Consortium. Dr. Gordon has taught courses in financial accounting and international accounting at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels, receiving a number of teaching awards. Her well-received textbook, Intermediate Accounting, recently entered its third edition.

Dr. Gordon was an auditor with PwC and interned at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget before entering academia. She received her Doctorate from Columbia University, Masters in Business Administration from Yale University and Bachelors of Science in accounting with highest distinction from Indiana University. Dr. Gordon is a licensed as a CPA in Maryland. She has been on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, the Rutgers Business School, and a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

ACCT 3533

Advanced Financial Accounting

Undergraduate

ACCT 3581

Co-operative Experience in Accounting

Undergraduate

ACCT 5201

Advanced Studies in Financial Reporting

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Street, D.L. & Gordon, E.A. (2023). An interview with IASB Chair Dr. Andreas Barckow. Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting, 34(2), 358-377. Wiley. doi: 10.1111/jifm.12171.

  • Amerongen, C.N.M.v.N., Duits, H.B., Gordon, E.A., & Street, D.L. (2023). Proposed international standard on auditing financial statements of less complex entities: IAASB IAAER roundtables—Breakout 2 Design, Structure, and Content. Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting, 34(2), 318-357. Wiley. doi: 10.1111/jifm.12165.

  • Amerongen, C.N.M.v.N., Duits, H.B., Gordon, E.A., & Street, D.L. (2022). Proposed international standard on auditing financial statements of less complex entities: IAASB IAAER roundtables-Breakout 1 authority and groups. JOURNAL of INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT & ACCOUNTING. 10.1111/jifm.12162

  • Clor-Proell, S., Brown, N., Stubben, S., White, B., Blankespoor, E., Gordon, E., Gujarathi, M., Henry, E., & Merkley, K. (2021). Response to the FASB Invitation to Comment Identifiable Intangible Assets and Subsequent Accounting for Goodwill. Accounting Horizons. doi: 10.2308/horizons-2020-194.

  • Gordon, E.A., Hsu, H., & Huang, H. (2020). Peer R&D disclosure and corporate innovation: Evidence from American depositary receipt firms. Advances in Accounting, 49, 100471-100471. Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.adiac.2020.100471.

  • Gordon, E., Gotti, G., Ho, J., Mora, A., & Morris, R. (2019). Commentary: Where is International Accounting Research Going? Issues Needing Further Investigation. Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, 37. doi: 10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2019.100286.