Publications

"Reputation and Commercialism:  Did Accounting Have a Golden Age?  The US Audit Profession 1929-1990". Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, V.42(4). 2023

"Could Accounting Have Saved Itself from the Antitrust Laws?  Revisiting the Antitrust Investigations into the US Accounting Profession 1966-1990". Abacus, Vol. 59(3), forthcoming.2023                   

 “Bookkeeper-Controller-CAO: The Rise of the Accounting Officer from the Securities Acts to Sarbanes-Oxley” w/C Richard Baker and Kiren Dosanjh Zucker, The Accounting Historians’ Journal, December 2019. Winner 2019 Best Paper, Accounting Historians’ Journal

 “The PCAOB as Third Party Payer: A Proposal to Address Public Perceptions of Auditor Independence.”  The CPA Journal, February 2019    

 “The Securities Acts and Public Accounting:  Financial Statement Audits as Symbolic Reform,” Accounting History, Vol.21 (2) 2016

 “The Colonel Carter Myth and the Securities Act: Using Accounting History to Establish Institutional Legitimacy,” Accounting History, Vol. 20 (1) 2015

 “The American Institute of Accountants and the Professionalization of Auditing: The Campaign to End Temporary Audit Staff and Promote the Natural Business Year, 1923-1960,” Accounting History, Vol. 18(2) 2013

 “I Ask the Profession to Stand Still: The Evolution of American Public Accountancy,” The Accounting Historians Journal, Vol. 38(1) 2011 Winner, Vangermeersch Manuscript Award. 

 “The End of the Disinterested Profession: The A.I.C.P.A. and the Union Corruption Scandals 1957-62,” Accounting History, Volume 14 2009