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Jeffrey Cohen

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Jeffrey Cohen

Contact

Fulton Hall 544

Telephone: 617-552-3165

Email: cohen@bc.edu

Education

  • BA, Bar Ilan University (Israel)
  • MBA, Columbia University
  • Ph.D, University of Massachusetts

Expertise

  • Social Responsibility and Ethics
  • Auditing
Curriculum Vitae

Department

Accounting

Profile

Dr. Jeffrey Cohen's major research streams are in the areas of corporate governance, auditor independence, corporate social responsibility and in accounting and business ethics. His work is behavioral based using controlled experiments, surveys, and interviews.听Jeff has approximately 35 LFT (London Financial Times) ranked publications with approximately 20 of them coming just since 2010, and he also has close to 6,000 google scholar citations since 2016.

He has been a recipient two separate times of the Notable Contributions to Auditing Literature Award as well as twice receiving the Innovations in Auditing and Assurance Education Award. In 2017, he was recognized as the outstanding auditing educator by the American Accounting Association鈥檚 auditing section. He also was the recipient in 2019/20 for the听 Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics.

Jeff is a past Senior Editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (AJPT). He has previously served as an Editor at Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory and an Associate Editor at Accounting Horizons and for two terms at Issues in Accounting Education. Jeff is currently an Editor for a second term at Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR).

His teaching interests focus on auditing, management and cost accounting, and strategic cost management.

He believes that our distinctive competency as educators is to create a culture where we constantly raise questions. As Tolstoy once wrote, "The only thing that we can know, is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of reason."

Current Editorial Positions

  • Editor: Contemporary Accounting Research

Selected Appointments & Awards

  • 2021 Notable Contributions to Audit Literature Award for the American Accounting Association鈥檚 Auditing Section. For 鈥淎uditors鈥� Experiences of Corporate Governance in the Post-Sarbanes Oxley Era," Contemporary Accounting Research. (Fall 2010), pp. 751-786.
  • 2019-2020 Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics. For the paper, 鈥淎udit Partners鈥� Judgments and Decision Making Processes in the Audit of Internal Control over Financial Reporting.鈥�
  • 2017 Outstanding Auditing Educator Award. Presented by the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association.
  • 2016 Best paper in BRIA (Behavioral Research in Accounting). 鈥淣onfinancial Information Preferences of Investment Professionals鈥� 听Behavioral Research in Accounting.听(Fall 2015), pp. 127-153.
  • 2014 KPMG Outstanding Published Manuscript Award. 鈥淲ill Women Lead the Way? Differences in Demand for Corporate Social Responsibility Information for Investment Decisions.鈥� Winner of the 2014 best paper award for the American Accounting Association on Work/Family issues.
  • 2012 Notable Contributions to the Auditing Literature Award for the American Accounting Association's Auditing Section.
  • 2011 Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award for the American Accounting Association鈥檚 Auditing Section.
  • 2009 Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award for the American Accounting Association鈥檚 Auditing Section.
  • 2007 KPMG Mentoring Award for the American Accounting Association鈥檚 Gender Issues Section.
  • 2005 KPMG Outstanding Published Manuscript Award. 鈥淚s it the Kids or the Schedule? The Incremental Effect of Families and Flexible Scheduling on Perceived Career Success,鈥� (with E. Almer and L. Single). Winner of the 2005 best paper award for the American Accounting Association on Work/Family issues.

Selected Publications Since 2010

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  • (With Kara Obermire and Karla Johnstone.) Accounting Organizations and Society, 93. August, 2021.听

  • (With Bertrand Malsch and Marie-Soleil Tremblay.) Journal of Business Ethics, 178, 467-479. March, 2021.听

  • (With Jennifer Joe, Greg Trompeter and Jay Thibodeau.) Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 39 (4), 57-85. November, 2020. Recipient of the 2019-2020 Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics.

  • 鈥� (With Derek Dalton, Lori Holder-Webb and Jeffrey McMillan.) Journal of Business Ethics, 164, 17-38. November, 2018.听

  • (With Mary Kate Dodgson, Christopher Agoglia and Bradley Bennet). The Accounting Review, 95 (2), 89-111. March, 2020.听

  • 鈥�(With Kimberly Westermann and Greg Trompeter.) Contemporary Accounting Research, 36 (2),听 694-731. Summer, 2019.听

  • .鈥� (With Helen Brown-Liburd and Valentina Zamora.) Journal of Business Ethics, 152 (1), 275-289. September, 2018.听

  • (With Derk Dalton and Nancy Harp.) Accounting Organizations and Society, 62, 1-20. October, 2017.听

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Lori Holder-Webb and Samer Khalil.) Journal of Business Ethics, 146 203-218. November, 2015.听

  • (With Ganesh Krishnamoorthy and Arnold Wright.) Contemporary Accounting Research, 34 (2), 1178-1209. Summer, 2017.听

  • 鈥�(With Yuan Ding, Cedric Lesage and Herve Stolowy.) Journal of Business Ethics, 144, 637-659. September, 2017.听

  • (With Anne Wilkins and Dana Hermanson.) Journal of Business Ethics, 137, 623-638. February, 2015.听

  • 鈥� (With Lori Holder-Webb and Valentina Zamora.) Behavioral Research in Accounting, 27 (2), 127-153. November, 2015. Winner of the 2016 award for best paper in BRIA.

  • (With Roger Simnett.) Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 34 (1),听 59-74. February, 2015.听

  • (With Gil Manzon and Valentina Zamora.) Journal of Business Ethics, 126 (4), 631-647. February, 2015.听

  • (With Steven Kaplan and Janet Samuels.) Journal of Business Ethics, 126 (1),听 103-117. January, 2015.听

  • 鈥� (With Derek Dalton, Nancy Harp and Jeffrey McMillan.) Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 33 (3),听 1-32. August, 2014.听

  • (with Udi Hoitah, Ganesh Krishnamoorthy and Arnold Wright.) The Accounting Review, 89 (1),听 243-273. January, 2014.听

  • (with Lori Holder-Webb and Leda Nath.) Journal of Business Ethics, 118, 85-102. November, 2013.听

  • 鈥�.鈥� (with Ganesh Krishnamoorthy, Marietta Peytcheva and Arnold Wright.) Accounting Horizons, 27 (3), 579-601. September, 2013.

  • (with Helen Brown-Liburd and Greg Trompeter.) Journal of Business Ethics, 116 (2), 311-325. September, 2012.听

  • (with W. Robert Knechel). Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 32 (1), 1-5. May 2013.听

  • (with Colleen Hayes, Ganesh Krishnamoorthy, Gary Monroe and Arnold Wright.) Behavioral Research in Accounting, 25 (1), 61-89. Spring, 2013.听

  • 鈥�(with James Bierstaker, Dana Hermanson and Todd DeZoort.) Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 31 (2), 131-150. May 2012.听

  • 鈥�." (with Lori Holder-Webb.) Journal of Business Ethics, 107, 485-509. June, 2012.听

  • (with Lisa Gaynor, Ganesh Krishnamoorthy and Arnold Wright.) Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 30 (4), 129-147. November, 2011.听

  • (with Lori Holder-Webb, David Wood and Leda Nath.) Behavioral Research in Accounting, 23 (1), 109-129. March, 2010.听

  • 鈥�." (with Samer Khalil and Gregory Trompeter.) Accounting Horizons, 25 (4), 703-728. December, 2010.听

  • 鈥�.鈥� (with Yuan Ding, Cedric Lesage and Herve Stolowy.) Journal of Business Ethics, 95 (2), 271-315. April, 2011.听

  • 鈥�." (with Ganesh Krishnamoorthy and Arnold Wright.) Contemporary Accounting Research, 27 (3), 751-786. Fall, 2010.

Professional Activities

He is currently an Editor at Contemporary Accounting Research. He has previously served as both Senior Editor, Consulting Editor, and Editor at听Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory听and an Associate Editor at听Accounting Horizons听and for two terms at听Issues in Accounting Education. He also ran the 2014 Doctoral Consortium for the Auditing section of the American Accounting Association.

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