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Dana Hermanson

Dinos Eminent Scholar Chair of Private Enterprise and Professor

Dana Hermanson

Ph.D – University of Wisconsin

BBA – University of Georgia

 

 

 

 
 

School of Accountancy

Burruss Building 237 770.423.6077
dhermans@kennesaw.edu Linked-In
http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~dhermans/

 

Research & Teaching Areas
- Accounting fraud
- Boards and audit committees
- Auditing and internal controls

Recent Consulting
- Oversight Systems, Inc. (Advisory Board member)
- Capital City Bank Group
- Compliance 360

Academic Positions
- Kennesaw State University

Professional Experience, Leadership & Service
- Named by Directorship magazine as one of 34 "People to Watch" in corporate governance. The magazine recognized "a short list of movers and shakers who merit serious attention as potential boardroom influentials," 2010.
- Recognized as the 80th all-time most prolific author (out of over 10,000 authors) in 25 core accounting journals (Heck 2009), with 25 career publications in these journals.
- Co-editor, Accounting Horizons
- Co-editor, Current Issues in Auditing
- Winner, 2008 Deloitte/AAA Wildman Medal, which recognizes research judged “to have made or be likely to make the most significant contribution to the advancement of the public practice of accountancy”
- Member, NACD Blue Ribbon Commission on Audit Committees
- Ernst & Young LLP

Representative Publications

“Audit Committee Compensation, Fairness, and the Resolution of Accounting Disagreements,” with James Bierstaker, Jeff Cohen, and Todd DeZoort. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Forthcoming.

“The Compensation Committee Process,” with James Tompkins, Rajaram Veliyath, and Shelly Ye, Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming.

“Corporate Governance Research in Accounting and Auditing: Insights, Practice Implications, and Future Research Directions,” with Joseph Carcello and Shelly Ye, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, August 2011.

“Fraudulent Financial Reporting: 1998-2007, An Analysis of U.S. Public Companies,” with Mark Beasley, Joseph Carcello, and Terry Neal, published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO – http://www.coso.org), May 2010.

“Why Do Some Accelerated Filers With SOX Section 404 Material Weaknesses Provide Early Warning Under Section 302?” with Shelly Ye, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, November 2009.

“The Audit Committee Oversight Process,” with Mark Beasley, Joseph Carcello, and Terry Neal, Contemporary Accounting Research, Spring 2009.

“Audit Committee Incentive Compensation and Accounting Restatements,” with Deborah Archambeault and Todd DeZoort, Contemporary Accounting Research, Winter 2008.

“Audit Committee Member Support for Proposed Audit Adjustments: Pre-SOX Versus Post-SOX Judgments,” with Todd DeZoort and Richard Houston, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, May 2008.

 

 
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