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Kristyn Calabrese is a licensed CPA with professional experience as a financial accountant at Interactive Brokers and an audit senior associate at KPMG. Professor Calabrese teaches graduate and undergraduate accounting courses. Calabrese’s research seeks to quantify the impact of workload and time pressures on audit efforts and the implications for audit timeliness and quality.

Assistant Professor of Accountancy

Tom Dalton has published numerous tax planning articles in professional and academic journals. He is a licensed CPA and worked as a tax consultant for Touche Ross & Co. (now Deloitte) prior to entering academia. He is a past president of the California Society of CPAs San Diego Chapter. Throughout his career, Dalton has taught courses in financial statement analysis, individual tax, corporate tax, partnership tax and retirement planning.

Assistant Professor of

Kimberly Krieg received her PhD from the University of Oregon. She worked in public accounting as a tax accountant and as an auditor for the federal government. She is a licensed CPA in California and teaches courses in taxation. Professor Krieg’s current research interests include examining the effects of taxation on corporate financial reporting, financing and investment decisions.

Barbara Lougee‘s areas of expertise include financial statement analysis, financial reporting, and interactive reporting (XBRL). She has taught financial accounting and financial statement analysis in the MBA, master's in accounting and master's in executive leadership programs. Lougee has received numerous awards, including the Steber Professorship, Professor of the Year and Professor of Impact at USD.

Associate Professor of Accountancy

Mary Durkin worked in assurance practice at Deloitte & Touche prior to completing her PhD in accountancy at Bentley University. She is a licensed CPA, and she was selected by the AICPA Foundation as a recipient of the 2011 Accounting Doctoral Scholars Fellowship. Professor Durkin's research centers around auditor judgment and decision making.

Assistant Professor of Accountancy

Associate Professor of Accountancy

Sarah Lyon’s research interests include tax avoidance, auditor judgment and decision making, communication methods, audit quality, deception and corporate social responsibility. She has published articles on tax scam tricks, practical tax strategies, laws affecting charitable donations, and trade-offs among cash-basis, accrual-basis and fair value accounting methods. Professor Lyon currently serves as the MACC Program Director.

Loren Margheim worked as a Medicare auditor and as a faculty member-in-residence for Arthur Andersen prior to joining USD. His specialties include corporate financial reporting and auditing. His research has identified factors that create dysfunctional behaviors during audits and examines how the work performed by a corporation's internal auditors affects the work of external CPAs.

Professor

of Accountancy

Johan Perols’ research focuses on the areas of financial statement and employee fraud detection, data mining and technology adoption and use. He teaches accounting information systems and covers management fraud, enterprise risk management, business process modeling and data analysis. He is a CPA and has also served on the board for the Denver chapter of the ISSA.

Professor of

John Prunty brings a wide range of industry experience to the Knauss School of Business. He began his career in the audit department of Ernst & Young before moving up the ranks at Maxwell Technologies, Gen-Probe, Maxim Pharmaceuticals — where he served as CFO — before joining Optimer Pharmaceuticals where he was instrumental in taking the company public and in bringing an important drug to market.

Chair of Accounting Department and Professor of Accountancy

Rick Warne is the chair of the accounting department and a CPA and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). Professor Warne’s research focuses on judgment and decision making in auditors and investors, contemporary auditing issues, accounting litigation, ethics and fraud theory. He served as the academic fellow in the Office of Chief Accountant for the SEC in Washington, D.C., providing advice and research on various public policy issues, including the commission’s climate change proposal.

MARK JUDD, CPA

Professor of Practice in Accountancy

Mark Judd is a licensed CPA in the State of California. Judd’s primary teaching interests include financial and managerial accounting and auditing. He has also taught international economics, international comparative management and marketing principles in Turin, Italy, at the Universitá degli Studi di. Prior to entering academia, he worked for the Coopers & Lybrand, an international accounting firm, as well as a local San Diego CPA firm. Judd is the advisor to Knauss School’s Beta Alpha Psi chapter and received the Faculty Service Award in 2015.

Professor of Accountancy

Jim Smith’s research examines international and state taxation, multidisciplinary practice, bankruptcy and other tax-related issues. He has published articles in numerous practitioner and academic journals. Prior to teaching, he worked four years in the tax department at KPMG Peat Marwick and five years as a tax attorney. Professor Smith holds a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license in California and is a member of the State Bar of California.

Assistant Professor of Accountancy

Erica Berry earned her PhD degree from the University of Oregon where she received the Robin and Roger Best Teaching Award for 2020 for teaching excellence. Her current research interests include litigation, misconduct, financial disclosure decisions and the effects of financial disclosures. Prior to her academic career, Professor Berry worked as a licensed CPA in Florida and Illinois and a Certified Fraud Examiner in investigations and litigation at PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services.

Vice

As the chief operating officer and chief financial officer of a $4.5 billion sports enterprise, Jeanne Bonk cites many factors that helped her reach the pinnacle of career success she enjoys today. Playing a variety of sports as a child, a good head for math and a strong dedication to “getting things right” make her a perfect fit for the job she has held since 1991. Yet, when looking back on how she got her start on the road to success, she gives credit to the University of San Diego.

As the first generation in her family to attend college, Bonk took a cost-minded approach and a round-about way of coming to USD. She grew up in Anaheim, and a er graduating from Mater Dei High School, Bonk decided to attend Cal State Fullerton. Living at home while working to meet college expenses allowed her to pay off her car and save money for the remaining years of college.

Raised in the Catholic faith, Bonk decided USD was where she wanted to spend the rest of her college days. She recalls one major difference between the two universities.

“I went from being a commuter student at a large public university to a live-on-campus student. There’s a big difference in terms of the relationships you form with students and professors. I don’t know one person from my year at Cal State, but I keep in contact with several friends from USD, including my best friend today.”

She found USD faculty to be exceedingly helpful and credits the late Professor Ethel Sykes with guiding her to choose accounting as a major.

“Professor Sykes suggested accounting and offered to help me obtain scholarships. That was very meaningful to me because I was paying my own way through college.”

Upon graduation, Bonk went to work for Price Waterhouse where she spent eight years working with a variety of clients, one of which was the Chargers. When the Chargers’ CFO position came open, she applied for the job and got it.

“The Big 8 accounting firms came to USD to interview in the fall of my senior year. It was tough in the fall to be walking around campus in business suits while all the other students were in shorts and flip flops, but I was hired that fall and come springtime, I had a job to look forward to while other students were walking around in business suits.”

“It was the best of two good decisions I made in my life,” she said. The other best decision was marrying her husband, Jim, whom she met at Price Waterhouse and who is also a USD graduate.

“I played a lot of sports as a child, but I didn’t know a lot about football. I jumped into it hook, line and sinker and was fortunate to receive answers to my many questions. There are a lot of nice people in the Chargers organization who helped me understand the game. And I’m extremely fortunate to have worked for three generations of the Spanos Family.”

Today Bonk is one of the Chargers’ longest-tenured executives and one of the highest-ranking female executives in the National Football League. She manages a staff of 10 and is responsible for the ongoing success of the organization in many areas. Currently she manages the team’s involvement with the Inglewood stadium project. Over her decades of employment, Bonk has managed a wide range of projects, including the construction of a new practice facility.

Bonk puts “getting the job done right” at the top of her list, an attitude that fits well with the Charger organization.

“I like to affiliate with people in organizations that have the same way of thinking as I do. I’m a question-asker, and I always want to get things right. Along with the Chargers, USD and Price Waterhouse are two organizations that get things right. Price Waterhouse has a reputation of providing distinctive client service, and in the same way, USD provides a distinctive educational experience.”

Bonk has participated in Career Day presentations hosted by the Accounting Society as a way of giving back to the university, and she offers students good advice about making career choices.

Choosing accounting turned out to be the right path for Bonk, but within that path, she made decisions that created a life filled with career success and personal fulfillment. Today, USD remains a special place in her memory —the place that started her on the journey to success and a life well-lived.