Meet Our Faculty

Meet some of the faculty currently teaching in the Master of Accounting Program.

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  Jana Smith Raedy

  Associate Dean, Master of Accounting Program of Accounting Ernst & Young Scholar in Accounting and Associate Professor of Accounting

  Jana teaches various financial reporting courses, including International Financial Reporting Standards. She has worked as a CPA, primarily in the tax and consulting areas.

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  Jeffrey Abarbanell

  Associate Professor of Accounting

  Jeff teaches Equity Analysis & Valuation. His areas of expertise include fundamental analysis and earnings management, financial statement analysis, analyst forecasting, valuation and accounting in transition-to-market economies.

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  Tamara Barringer

  Adjunct Assistant Professor of Legal Studies

  As the former managing partner of the Barringer Law Firm, LLP, Tamara has over 25 years of experience in estate and tax planning, estate administration, and business and commercial law, serving entrepreneurial business clients. She teaches many legal courses for the MAC students throughout the year, including part 2 of Leadership, Ethics, and Professionalism, as well as Commercial Law, Corporations and Securities Regulation, and Agency and Unincorporated Organizations.

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  Larry Chavis

  Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

  Larry teaches Microeconomics, part of the Pre-MAC Functional Requirements taught in the summer. He researches how weak institutions in developing countries pose challenges for new business formation. He is also studying how organizational design affects the delivery of development aid to rural communities and small-scale entrepreneurs in Indonesia.

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  Travis Day

  Adjunct Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

  Travis teaches in the information and technology management area. He researched, designed and teaches a "Business Computing Skills" course. He teaches Intro to Technology: Spreadsheet Modeling during the summer as part of our Pre-MAC Functional Requirements.

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  Lynn Dikolli

  Assistant Professor of Accounting

  Lynn teaches courses in audit and assurance services and special topics in auditing. She worked with KPMG in Canada, Europe and Bermuda in its audit and risk management practices and in its national and international head offices.

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  Courtney Edwards

  Assistant Professor of Accounting

  Courtney teaches many key taxation classes including Business Taxation and International Tax. She specializes in employee stock options and taxes as well as taxes and business strategy.

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  Noah Eisenkraft

  Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

  Noah teaches Negotiations, one of the MAC elective courses. He studies how people perceive and react to one another in organizations. Recently, he has examined how individual differences in “affective presence” influence team functioning and performance, the accuracy of first impressions, why some individuals are better negotiators than others, and the relationship between emotion-perception and emotion-recognition skill.

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  Mary Margaret Frank

  Adjunct Professor of Tax Strategy and Associate Professor of Business Administration at Darden School of Business

  Mary Margaret teaches Tax and Business Strategy. Her current research focuses on the effects of regulated disclosure on the strategy of corporate management, investors and entrepreneurs. Her interest in regulated disclosure focuses on financial accounting, tax and patent reporting. Additional academic interests include the integration of business principles and public policy objectives and public-private partnerships.

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  Diego Garcia

  Assistant Professor of Finance

  Diego teaches Introduction to Derivatives and Securities Markets, one of the MAC elective courses. His research includes financing and investment policies under asymmetric information, agency theory, markets for information, informational efficiency in financial markets, and computational approaches to optimal investment problems.

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  John R. M. Hand

  H. Allen Andrew Distinguished Professor

  John's teaching centers on business analysis, financial reporting, financial statement analysis and valuation. He is a former management consultant with Deloitte in London.

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  David A. Hofmann

  Hugh L. McColl Scholar in Leadership and Professor and Area Chair of Organizational Behavior

  Dave teaches Part 1 of Leadership, Ethics, and Professionalism. His research investigates organizational climates, organizational change, leadership and modeling the influence of organizational factors on individual behavior and performance..

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  Edward Maydew

  David E. Hoffman Term Professor of Accounting

  Ed teaches the Deloitte Corporate Taxation course. His research interests include, among other things, tax strategy, financial accounting, corporate taxation, economic effects of taxation and the role of accounting information in valuation.

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  James H. Johnson, Jr.

  Director, Urban Investment Strategies Center, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise; William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

  Jim teaches Managing Workplace Diversity, one of the MAC elective courses. His research interests include community and economic development, the effects of demographic changes on the U.S. workplace, interethnic minority conflict in advanced industrial societies, urban poverty and public policy in urban America, and workforce diversity issues.

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  C.J. Skender

  Professor of Accounting

  C.J. teaches Introduction to Managerial Accounting, one of the summer Pre-MAC Functional Requirements. He also teaches Cost Accounting. He worked as an auditor for Deloitte Haskins and Sells in Philadelphia. He has attained 11 professional designations in accounting, financial planning, insurance and management: CPA, CMA, CCA, CIA, ChFC, CLU, CFP, AIAF, CFE, CFM and CBM.

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  Karen Trott

  Adjunct Professor of Taxation

  Karen teaches Taxation of Flow-Through Entities: Partnerships and SCorps.

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  Jonathan Turner

  Adjunct Professor of Audit

  Jonathan teaches Fraudulent Financial Reporting, one of the required courses in the audit track. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of Wilson & Turner Incorporated.

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  Stephen Stubben

  Sarah Graham Kenan Scholar and Assistant Professor of Accounting

  Stephen teaches part 1 of Financial Reporting, one of the Pre-MAC Functional Requirements. He is also the faculty lead for the MAC GIE. His current research focuses primarily on accounting standards, firms’ application of these standards, the quality of the resulting accounting information, and how that information is used in business decisions.

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  Sean Wang

  Assistant Professor of Accounting

  Sean teaches part 2 of Financial Reporting as well as one of the Pre-MAC Functional Requirements, Financial Management. His research interests include capital markets, behavioral finance and the behaviors of arbitrageurs, earnings management and intangibles.