Forensic Accounting Professors

As the Forensic Accountant Distinguished Professor at North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Bushman is an award-winning teacher leading classes in corporate governance, deal structuring, and financial accounting. He has also worked with executives outside of the classroom through companies like  Andersen Consulting and GlaxoSmithKline. He’s been published in a number of academic journals, given keynote speeches, and has professional affiliations with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the American Accounting Association.

Davila has been trained in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and accounting and reporting, but has also functioned as an expert in a number of litigation proceedings. Some of his expert witness experience related to matters such as business valuation, embezzlement and fraudulent financial reporting. He has previously served on the California Board of Accountancy and  was once an auditor for Deloitte.

In addition to teaching financial accounting and financial statement analysis in the EMBA program at this New Jersey school, Dr. Govindaraj has gained experience teaching at other schools including Colombia University, New York University  and Northwestern University. As well, he reviews a number of academic journals, does speaking engagements, submits business articles for publication and has been a two-time winner of the school’s Paul Nadler award for excellence in teaching.

Dr. Waldrup’s extensive background in forensic accounting and fraud investigation made him a top choice for new chair of this Maryland school’s department of accounting.  Previously employed at the University of North Florida, he taught coursework in auditing theory, and managerial, cost, and forensic accounting. His travels took him to teaching experiences in places like Beijing, Florence and Rome. He has published an extensive number of papers, more than 30, and is a member of the ACFE as well as the  American Accounting Association, and the Accounting Historians Society.

Kresse is an associate professor at this Chicago School, and also director of the school’s Center for the Study of Fraud and Corruption. He’s appeared locally in Chicago on TV news talking about holiday fraud scams, safe use of credit cards, and making purchases online.  “Fraud never sleeps” may very well be a catch-phrase of his. He has also been named Educator of the Year by the ACFE.

Nellen teaches a variety of coursework at SJSU including in e-commerce, property transactions and tax research,  and is also director of the Master’s of Science in Tax. She is author of a book called “Tax Aspects of Business Transactions - A First Course,” and, in addition to doing speaking engagements about tax issues and policy,  stays active in professional organizations. She keeps track of news and commentary about tax system weaknesses, needed tax reform, and ideas for change in her blog, “21^st Century Taxation.“

Evans is a new professor at this Washington D.C. school after gaining extensive experience working on the Bernie Madoff case.  In fact, she spent six months at the Madoff office in New York looking for evidence of financial crimes, according to the school website. Students at AU may also gain from her past experience as an auditor for two different firms and her expertise in providing litigation support and acting as an expert witness.  She is an AU graduate herself. As an executive-in-residence at AU, she teaches, among other courses, accounting ethics, advanced financial reporting and forensic accounting.

Dr. Pavelka’s areas of accounting interest include accounting regulation and theory, business fraud, bank audit and compliance among others. She has been honored as a distinguished lecturer at this Chicago school and in a YouTube interview describes accounting fraud as growing across the U.S. and worldwide, a trend that costs companies significant amounts of money. The American Society for Continuing Education also noted that she has contributed questions for the Certified Internal Auditor Exam.