Faculty & Research

Accounting & Taxation Faculty

Whether structuring a startup or devising a corporate tax strategy, Owen’s world-class faculty bring a broad range of expertise into the classroom and beyond. As a result, students have a unique opportunity to understand how financial management plays an increasingly key role in today’s business models. Similarly, the global Big Four are among those that continue to look to Owen’s faculty to help navigate rapidly changing regulatory environments, both in the U.S. and abroad.

	Germain Boer Professor of Accounting; Director of Owen Entrepreneurship Center MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Germain Böer has initiated numerous innovative entrepreneurship activities at Owen, including an annual conference and student sessions with venture capitalists. Germain currently serves as an advisor to startup companies in the Nashville area and is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and Strategic Finance. Video: The Owen Entrepreneurship Center

	Paul Chaney E. Bronson Ingram Professor in Accounting MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Paul Chaney joined the Owen faculty in 1984. His landmark study—which found direct correlation between public perception of an auditor’s reputation and a company's market value—received significant national news coverage in the wake of the Andersen-Enron debacle. Video: Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers

	Karl Hackenbrack Associate Professor of Accounting; Faculty Director, MAcc Program; Associate Dean of Evaluation and Program Development MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Karl Hackenbrack’s writings and teachings address corporate governance issues associated with external financial reporting, including fraudulent financial reporting, the structure of accounting standards, the public accounting industry, corporate valuation, and the regulation of professional services. Karl has been an editorial board member of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory since 1996, an editorial board member of The Accounting Review from 1996 to 1999, and an ad hoc reviewer for many journals.

	Debra Jeter, CPA Associate Professor of Accounting MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Debra Jeter is a certified public accountant with a distinguished record of professional achievement and participation in the activities of the American Accounting Association (AAA). She has also won numerous accolades for her teaching excellence. Debra is currently serving on the Editorial Advisory and Review Board of The Accounting Review. She has served as an ad hoc Associate Editor of a second AAA publication, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and Issues in Accounting Education. The fourth edition of her textbook, Advanced Accounting, coauthored with Paul Chaney, was released in 2009.

	Richard Willis Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker, Jr., Associate Professor of Accounting MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Richard Willis has extensive experience in the accounting profession as a corporate accountant and market research analyst, as well as a distinguished body of academic research in many leading publications. Prior to his academic career, he worked for Coopers & Lybrand, LLP, where he developed materials pertaining to accounting for stock-based compensation.

Affiliated Faculty

	Roberta W. Goodman Adjunct Professor of Management Principal, Health Care Analytics LLC MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Roberta Goodman, a well-respected health care analyst, will join the faculty of the Health Care MBA program at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management in January. A perennial favorite on lists of top analysts in financial publications including the Wall Street Journal and Institutional Investor, Goodman is now a principal with Nashville-based Health Care Analytics, a strategic consulting firm specializing in the health care services industry.

	William Henderson Professor for the Practice of Tax Accounting; KPMG Partner, Tax (Retired) MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
William Henderson’s experience spans 37 years providing a full range of tax services for a wide variety of clients ranging. By the time of his retirement as a Partner at KPMG, he had combined his expertise as an educator and tax professional, teaching the firm's "Advanced Taxation of Partnerships" seminar for tax partners and managers. As a tax professional, William provided services to a wide range of industries including oil and gas; real estate; manufacturing; public utilities; banking; savings and loan; insurance; and financial services.

	James Jones Adjunct Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Professor Jones entire professional career was with KPMG LLP, from which he retired in May 2006 after serving as Managing Partner of the Nashville office since 1999.

	Andrew Leone Adjunct Professor of Management; Arthur P. Metzger Professor of Accounting, University of Miami MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Andy Leone is the Department Chair and Professor of Accounting at University of Miami. Prior to becoming a professor, he was the Vice President of Finance at Crompton Modutec. He is the Associate Editor for The Journal of Accounting and Economics. He was the 2005 recipient of the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Reseach Award. Andy was also listed as Simon School’s “Best Teachers” in BusinessWeek 2000.

	Mark Schmadtke Adjunct Professor of Management; Partner, Dixon Hughes PLLC MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Mark serves as Director of the Dixon Hughes Risk Services Group. He focuses on providing outsourced and co-sourced internal audit service, business risk identification and management and strategic change development. Mark is experienced in the areas of financial and operational controls, having directed the outsourced internal audit function of three public registrants, led multiple Sarbanes-Oxley - Section 404 compliance implementations and designed multiple compliance risk management functions. In addition, Mark has served as partner-in-charge of external audit services on multiple public company engagements.

	Philip K. Woodlief Adjunct Professor of Management MORE ABOUT THIS FACULTY MEMBER
Phil has been Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer for Doane Pet Care since June 2000 and served as Vice President, Finance for Doane from February 1999 to June 2000. Prior to joining us, Phil was Vice President and Corporate Controller of Insilco Corporation, a diversified consumer and industrial products manufacturing company. Phil joined Insilco as the Corporate Controller in 1989 and prior to that was a senior manager at KPMG.