FAYETTEVILLE,
Ark. — The
Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University
of Arkansas
has announced the appointment of Vernon J. Richardson as chair of the
department of accounting, effective July 1.
Richardson
was also appointed to the S. Robson Walton Chair in Accounting, a position made
possible by the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation.
Richardson
replaces Karen Pincus, who led the department from 1995 to 2007 and will
continue teaching and conducting research in the Walton
College.
Dean Dan Worrell said, “We are very pleased to
have Dr. Richardson lead the department of accounting. He is an outstanding teacher and is well known
as a top researcher in the accounting information systems field.
“In
addition, we are deeply appreciative of the contributions made by Dr. Pincus
during her tenure. She led curriculum changes on both the undergraduate and
graduate levels to reflect the changing business environment of accounting and
accounting regulations driven by events such as Sarbanes Oxley.”
Richardson joined the Walton College in 2005. He was previously holder of the Ralph L. McQueen Chair
in Accounting. He holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting; a
Masters of Accountancy in accounting information systems and a Master of
Business Administration from Brigham Young University; and a doctoral degree in
accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was
previously an associate professor at the University
of Kansas
in Lawrence.
His
research is at the intersection of financial accounting and information
systems, and his interests include examining the business value of information
technology investments, the value relevance of accounting restatements and
accounting errors, and the costs of the agency relationship between managers
and owners. Richardson has published articles in Journal of Accounting and Economics, MIS Quarterly, Journal of
Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Management Information Systems,
Information and Management, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Marketing,
Financial Analysts Journal and American
Business Law Journal. He has served as associate editor of the Journal of Information Systems and is
currently an associate editor at MIS
Quarterly.
This
summer, Pincus, who previously held the S. Robson Walton Chair in Accounting,
was appointed to the Doyle Z. and Maynette Derr Williams Chair in Professional
Accounting. In 2006, Pincus was the recipient of the Distinguished Achievement
in Accounting Education Award from the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants. That same year she was named by Accounting Today magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential
People in Accounting.
Pincus
said, “It has been a real pleasure to lead the
department of accounting for the past dozen years. As I look back at those
12 years, I’m amazed by how much has changed. I’ve had the great privilege
of working with a fantastic group of alumni, employers, donors, students,
faculty and staff. I know they will continue to offer their support to
our new department chair, as I will.”