Prominent Accounting Journal Reappoints Dickins to Editorial Board

Dickins

Denise Dickins, Associate Professor
ECU Department of Accounting

Associate Professor Denise Dickins has been reappointed for a second term to the Editorial Advisory and Review Board for Issues in Accounting Education, one of the three primary publications of the American Accounting Association. Her current term runs from 2016 to 2018.

The mission of the journal is to publish research, commentaries, and instructional resources that assist accounting faculty in teaching and examine important issues in accounting education.

Dickins has taught at ECU’s College of Business since 2006, where she primarily teaches courses in auditing and corporate governance. She also received her Ph.D. from Florida Atlantic University in 2006. A seasoned executive, she served in various roles with Arthur Andersen from 1983 to 2002, concluding as partner-in-charge of the South Florida Audit Division. Her research interests include the impacts of mandatory auditor rotation and auditor offshoring, and she has published more than 75 articles. She has generously funded a scholarship for business students in honor of her family’s legacy at ECU, which began with her husband’s grandmother in 1925.