Dr. Hilal Atasoy is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Temple University. She has a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Economics from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research analyzes the impacts of information technology and innovation on labor markets, and how information systems and associated flow of information across providers affect healthcare. Dr. Atasoy’s research was published in leading outlets such as Management Science, Information Systems Research and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

Steven Balsam, Professor of Accounting and Senior Merves Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, obtained his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (Baruch College) in 1991. His research interests are executive compensation, earnings management, and capital markets. He has written several books on executive compensation including Executive Compensation: An Introduction to Practice and Theory, and an AICPA self study course, Accounting for Stock Options and Other Stock-Based Compensation, he has published articles in academic journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, and Journal of Corporate Finance; and practitioner journals including the Journal of Accountancy. Professor Balsam is also a member of the editorial boards of Accounting Horizons and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. He has been widely quoted in the media and has given expert witness testimony on executive compensation to the United States Senate Committee on Finance.  Prior to coming to Temple University he taught at Baruch College and the University of Rochester. Before entering academia he was a Certified Public Accountant working for the international accounting firm of Ernst & Young.

Rajiv Banker is the Merves Chair in Accounting and Information Technology at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. Dr. Banker is internationally recognized as a leader in interdisciplinary research in management, and is one of the most highly cited scholars in management and economics worldwide. The Institute for Scientific Information (Web of Science) has recognized him as a researcher for having made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology. He is ranked as the most prolific scholar in management accounting published in the top accounting research journals over the past 20 years. His research articles are cited over 500 times each year by other researchers in a wide range of disciplines. One of his papers is ranked fourth highest in citations in the 70-year history of Management Science.

Dr. Banker received a Bachelor of Science degree with Highest Honors in Mathematics and Economics, standing first, at the University of Bombay, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University concentrating in Planning, Accounting and Control Systems. He has served as editor and on advisory boards of leading research journals in accounting, information systems and operations management. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of the Data Envelopment Analysis Journal and the president of the International Data Envelopment Analysis Society.

Dr. Banker’s research interests address emerging problems of importance to managers analyzing data collected from different companies. His research on information systems explores issues of technology-enabled competitive strategy, business value of investments in information technology, software productivity and quality, and management of software development and maintenance. His research in accounting addresses questions pertaining to performance measurement, incentive compensation, strategic cost management and competitive industry analysis. His research in management science includes the development of new methods for productivity analysis, efficiency evaluation and incentive regulation.

He has received numerous awards for his research, including awards by the American Accounting Association for Lifetime Contribution to Management Accounting, Notable Contribution to the Management Accounting Literature and Notable Contribution to the Governmental Accounting Literature, and best paper awards at international conferences in information systems and in accounting.

Sudipta Basu joined the Accounting Department in Fall 2007. His research on the effects of conservatism and other accounting principles on the properties of reported earnings and analysts’ earnings forecasts was published in Journal of Accounting and Economics; Journal of Accounting Research; Review of Accounting Studies; and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.

His research on the origins and evolution of accounting appears in Accounting and Business Research; Accounting Historians Journal; Accounting Horizons; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Foundations and Trends in Accounting; and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS). The American Accounting Association (AAA) recognized his research with the 2012 Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award and the 2011 and 2007 Accounting Horizons Best Paper Awards. Sudipta is an Associate Editor or Editorial Board member of The Accounting Review; Contemporary Accounting Research; Journal of Business Finance and Accounting; Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance; Australian Journal of Management; Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting; Accounting, Economics and Law; and China Journal of Accounting Research. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. at the University of Rochester; M.B.A. at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; and B.A. (Honours) in Economics at the University of Delhi. Sudipta taught previously at Emory University and Baruch College, City University of New York.

Best known for his research in earnings forecasting by security analysts, Brown has over 100 publications and has made nearly 200 presentations at universities and professional conferences. He has published at least two articles in the six most influential academic journals in accounting: Journal of Accounting Research (12 articles), The Accounting Review (6 articles), Contemporary Accounting Research (7 articles), Journal of Accounting and Economics (3 articles), Review of Accounting Studies (3 articles) and Accounting Organizations and Society (2 articles).  He has published 2 articles in the premier research journal in finance, Journal of Finance and 6 in the premier research journal in forecasting, International Journal of Forecasting.

Brown’s research papers have been downloaded by ssrn.com nearly 80,000 times, putting him in the top 1/20^th of one percent of all downloaded authors who have posted their work to that website.  He has been cited by scores of media outlets including Barron’s, Business Week, CNBC Business News, CFO Magazine, Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Institutional Investor, Investor’s Business Daily, Newsday, Newsweek, The New York Times, Reuters, Smartmoney.com, Spiegel Online, and The Wall Street Journal. Brown received the AAA Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in 2006.  He is a former Editor of The Accounting Review and a former Editorial Board member of Contemporary Accounting Research. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting for over 25 years, having organized the accounting-track of the CFEA three times.

Dmitri Byzalov joined the Accounting Department in Fall 2009. His research on cost behavior, conditional conservatism, and accrual modeling is published in Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Management Accounting Research. The American Accounting Association (AAA) recognized his research on demand uncertainty and cost behavior with the 2015 Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University. He currently teaches Managerial Accounting and Cost Accounting to undergraduates.

Shira Cohen joined the Temple faculty as an Assistant Professor of Accounting after earning her PhD from Columbia University. Her research interests can be grouped into two main areas. The first attempts to understand how managers use financial statement information in making investment decisions, and the second focuses on corporate disclosures. Her dissertation received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 AAA Regional Meeting.

Prior to entering academia, Professor Cohen gained extensive work experience in both the consulting and finance industries. As a management consultant she took part in post-merger integration of Fortune 500 companies, and as an investment banker she worked primarily on valuation of hedge fund positions. Her experience ranges across industries, both domestically and internationally.

In addition to industry experience, during the 2017-2018 academic year, Professor Cohen served as a visiting scholar-in residence at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington, D.C. During her time in government, she worked as a financial economist, gaining in-depth policy experience and providing economic and risk analysis on both proposed and adopted regulation.

As a graduate student, Professor Cohen taught at Columbia Business School’s Executive Education and Executive MBA programs. In recognition of her classroom accomplishments, she was selected as a finalist for the 2011 Presidential Graduate Student Teaching Award.

In addition to a PhD, Professor Cohen holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Gaffney’s research areas include accounting for not-for profits and gender issues in accounting. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Advances in Public Interest Accounting, and Business and Economic Review. Recipient of the 2001 Fox School Andrisani/Frank Outstanding Teacher and the 2002 Musser Award for Excellence in Teaching she contributes to teaching at all levels both within The Fox School and for the University. She has published Scholarship of Teaching Articles in Issues in Accounting Education, The Accounting Educators Journal, and Advances in Accounting Education.

Elizabeth A. Gordon joined the Accounting Department in Fall 2007. Dr. Gordon specializes in the areas of international accounting and financial reporting investigating topics such as international financial reporting standards, corporate communications, executive compensation, related party transactions, accounting restatements, market development and corporate disclosure. Her research is published in top journals in her field including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. She serves as an associate editor for the Journal of International Accounting Research and the Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting. Dr. Gordon served as the Past-President of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association and serves on the Vice-President Finance and Administration of the International Association of Accounting Education and Research.

Dr. Gordon co-authored a recently published Intermediate Accounting textbook.  She has taught courses in financial accounting and international accounting at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels, receiving a number of teaching awards. Dr. Gordon was an auditor with PwC and interned at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget before entering academia. She received her Doctorate from Columbia University, Masters in Business Administration from Yale University and Bachelors of Science in accounting with highest distinction from Indiana University. Dr. Gordon is a licensed CPA in Maryland. She has been on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, the Rutgers Business School, and a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

David (Dave) Jones joined the Accounting Department in Fall 2015. Dave received his Doctor Management degree from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio and was a tax partner with Ernst & Young, LLP before retirement in 2006 as the Global CEO of the firm’s Global Mobility Services.  Dave has been a professor at Slippery Rock University and Case Western Reserve University prior to joining Temple.  Dave’s research interests include practitioner-oriented tax research in general topics and real estate tax, and behavioral trends among tax professionals.  Dave is active with students, a faculty advisor for an accounting student professional organization and leads the Department’s relationship with AACSB International, (an accreditation association) the world’s largest business education network connecting students, academia, and business to advance business education worldwide.

A. J. Kreimer joined the faculty as a full time Assistant Professor in Fall 2011. He has a wide ranging background in the fields of accounting, finance, and real estate. He earned his MBA from Temple and holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh.

He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Pennsylvania and holds the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation.  In addition, he is a licensed Real Estate Broker in Pennsylvania.  He is a member of the AICPA, the PICPA (Pennsylvania) and the NJCPA (New Jersey) and the IMA (Institute of Management Accountants.)

Professor Kreimer practiced as a CPA with the Philadelphia firm of Waldbaum, Rockower & Company where he focused on individual, corporate and partnership taxation.  His audit clients included unions and a wide range of privately held companies.  In addition, he worked extensively on limited partnership syndications.

His institutional experience includes various positions with the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company in the Controller’s Department and later in the Investment Department where he worked extensively in the acquisition and oversight of syndications and joint ventures.  He was controller of a Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company real estate subsidiary and later served as Portfolio Manager for Atlantic Metropolitan Development Corporation, a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust.

Through his company, Hartwell Realty Corp., he has been actively engaged in consulting and the acquisition, divestiture, financing, development, management and brokerage of commercial, industrial, office and multi-family residential properties.  He has also served as an advisor and manager for a Trustee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Professor Kreimer is a member of the Global Board of Directors of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) where he serves on the Member Relations Committee, the Chapter Council and Student Initiatives Subcommittee, and as the board liaison to the Committee on Academic Relations.  He also serves on the ACCA’s (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Education Global Forum.

Professor Kreimer was an elected member of the Moorestown, New Jersey Board of Education from 1997 to 2010.  His board positions included serving as the chair of the budget and finance committee overseeing a $65 million budget.  In addition, he served on or chaired many board committees including legal review, policy, communications, curriculum, student services, and special education.  In 2005, he was appointed as one of five members to a bi-partisan Government Efficiency Task Force by the Moorestown Town Council to recommend solutions to the municipal fiscal structure.

Professor Kreimer is an actively involved volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America at the National and Regional levels.  He currently serves as a Vice President and member of the Executive Committee of the Northeast Region and sits on a number of National Committees including the National Membership Committee and the National Religious Relationships Task Force.  His previous positions include Chairman of the National Jewish Committee on Scouting, Area 5 President of the BSA’s Northeast Region and President of the Burlington County Council (NJ).  He also serves on the Garden State Council’s board and is a trustee of its Camp Corporation.  In 2008, Scouting’s National Court of Honor recognized him with the Silver Antelope Award for distinguished service to the youth of the BSA’s Northeast Region.

The Fox School has recognized Professor Kreimer as a Dean’s Teaching Fellow and the University selected Professor Kreimer as a Diamond Peer Teacher Mentor.  He was also chosen by the Provost’s office to participate in its initial Student-Oriented Active Redesign (SOAR) course initiative.  The Fox School awarded him its Crystal Teaching Award for Excellence in the Classroom and the Innovative Teaching Award.  He was chosen to be a Tech Fellow in the Fox Tech Academy and was a member of the Fox School’s Center for Innovation Teaching and Learning Committee.  He also served on the University’s Writing Intensive Course Committee.  He has taught a wide range of courses including Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Auditing and serves as the course coordinator for the Senior Seminar in Accounting course.  He’s also taught an Executive MBA course in Singapore in Financial Accounting as well as graduate courses in Philadelphia including Auditing Theory and Practice and two graduate finance courses leading to the CFA designation.

Dr. Jayanthi Krishnan (Ph.D., Ohio State University) joined the Accounting Department in Fall 2000. She teaches cost accounting and intermediate accounting for undergraduate students, and financial and managerial accounting in the Fox School full-time and professional MBA programs. Her other teaching interests include introductory financial accounting, senior seminar in accounting, and financial statement analysis.

Jayanthi Krishnan is the recipient of the 2015 American Accounting Association’s Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award. She is an editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and serves on the editorial boards of the Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, and Current Issues in Auditing. Her publications appear in a number of journals including the Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons, and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics. Her research interests are in the areas of audit quality, audit regulations, corporate governance, industry classifications and their impact on accounting ratios, and the impact of international diversification on auditor decision-making.

Dr. Jayanthi Krishnan has been named to the Fox School Dean’s Research Honor Roll, is a recipient of the Business Honors Association’s Teacher of the Year Award, a two-time recipient of the Beta Alpha Psi Teacher of the Year Award, a two-time recipient of the Fox MBA Faculty of the Year award, a three-time recipient of the Fox School Crystal Award for teaching, and the recipient of the 2008 Musser Excellence in Leadership Award for teaching.

Jagan Krishnan is a Professor and Merves Senior Research Fellow in the department of Accounting. He is the coordinator of the Ph.D. program in Accounting and teaches undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses in auditing. He has over 30 years of teaching and professional experience in auditing and consulting.

After completing a doctorate at the Ohio State University, he joined Temple in 1991. He is the recipient of the 2003 Musser Award for Leadership in Teaching and the 2000 Beta Alpha Psi Teacher of the Year Award. His research interests are in the areas of audit quality, corporate governance, auditor litigation, regulation, and fraudulent financial reporting. He is an editor of Accounting Horizons (one of the three association-wide journals published by the American Accounting Association) and currently serves on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance and Current Issues in Auditing. He has published articles in academic journals including The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. He is listed among prolific auditing researchers by two different studies. Prior to entering academia, he worked in the audit and consulting divisions of affiliates of Ernst & Young and KPMG.

Yi Liang joined the Accounting Department in Fall 2015. Dr. Liang deploys empirical archival methods to analyze accounting research questions. His research interests include financial and managerial accounting with a focus on the economic impact of corporate governance reforms and corporate laws. He is also interested in applying new methods, such as structural estimation and text analysis. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. at the Carnegie Mellon University; and B.S. at Tsinghua University. He served as an instructor while completing his doctoral studies. He currently teaches Accounting Information Systems to B.B.A. and M.S.A. students.

Professor Malandra has taught numerous undergraduate and graduate financial, managerial, and tax accounting courses at Temple University’s Fox School of Business since 1986. He has also taught Temple-Rome in 2014, and various Executive MBA courses in Singapore, Tokyo, Cali, Morocco, Beijing, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, and in the Masters of Accountancy Program, as well as undergraduate courses at Seton Hall, Widener, and Eastern Universities, and at Philadelphia Community College.

All of Professor Malandra’s courses include extensive on-line comprehensive PowerPoint slides, emphasizing key concepts presented in a Q&A format to promote class discussion.  All assignments, also on-line, provide students with immediate, comprehensive explanations and calculations of all answers, and experiential group projects promote teamwork and understanding of all steps in the accounting process or researching financial accounting cases in FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification and IFRS standards.  During the spring 2016 semester, Professor Malandra prepared 20 online exams with 1,000 multiple choice questions based on prior CPA Exam – Financial Accounting & Reporting Section questions, which now serve as homework assignments for the Intermediate Accounting courses and his MAcc course, Advanced Studies in Financial Reporting.

Professor Malandra graduated from Girard College High School in Philadelphia, studied education and psychology at Antioch College in Ohio, served as a Specialist 4 Legal Clerk in the US Army at Fort Lewis, Washington, worked as a legal clerk, notary public, and process server in a criminal law practice in San Francisco, studied law under California’s Law Office Study Program, and was licensed as an Attorney at Law in 1979.  On receiving his BS degree in Accounting at San Francisco State University in 1980, he began his accounting career at Deloitte’s Tax Department, earning an MS in Taxation at Golden Gate University, and was licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in 1983.  Moving back to his Philadelphia hometown after 14 years, he became a Tax Department Manager at Laventhol & Horwath, and since 1986, began teaching at Temple, while maintaining his own active tax planning and compliance practice.

Dr. Cory Ng is an Assistant Professor of Instruction and the Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Accounting at Temple University. He also serves as the faculty advisor to the Fox Accounting Association. Cory earned his Doctor of Business Administration degree from Wilmington University, his MS in Accounting from Drexel University, and his BS in Economics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also a licensed CPA in Pennsylvania and a Chartered Global Management Accountant.

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Oregon
• M.B.A., University of Washington
• B.A., University of Washington

Specializations:

• Use of accounting numbers in debt contracts
• Accounting choices and financial distress
• Impact of SEC Regulation on firms’ accounting choices

After earning his doctoral degree from the University of Oregon in 1988, Eric began his career at SUNY-Buffalo. The durability of western New York winters soon exceeded his patience (having been raised in Miami), so, after a visit at the Fuqua School of Duke University, he moved to Philadelphia (where his wife has relatives) to join the Fox School of Business at Temple University in 1992.

Dr. Press has been an active researcher, publishing in journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. He taught a variety of accounting courses at the undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D. levels.

As chairman of the Department of Accounting at Temple since 2006, Eric has crossed a number of items off his to-do list. He revised the undergraduate curriculum to make learning more effective for students; recruited several nationally prominent Accounting scholars; signed up founding members of the Temple Accounting Circle to support faculty research, Ph.D. students, and professional development activities; initiated a Masters of Accountancy program that begins in 2011; and, in 2014, oversaw fund raising and an Alumni Reunion Dinner that together raised more than $700,000 for scholarships, and aims to attain AACSB Department of Accounting accreditation in 2018. These accomplishments evidence Eric’s dedication to accounting education and research.

Prior to joining the faculty in 1997 as Professor of Practice, Sheri Risler, CPA was an Audit Partner with the Philadelphia office of Ernst &Young where she provided a broad range of services to entrepreneurial, middle market and public companies. Her focus was in managing and directing engagement teams performing financial statement audits of companies in the service, high technology and life sciences industries. Professor Risler has a complete knowledge of accounting, financial and SEC reporting requirements and has assisted her clients, attorneys and investment bankers in the preparation of offering documents for initial and secondary public and private offerings. Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Professor Risler was also a Senior Internal Auditor with the University of Pennsylvania where she conducted evaluations of internal accounting controls, reviewed adherence to policies and procedures, recommended efficiencies in the University’s operations and reported on the findings. Professor Risler received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in Accounting from Boston University. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Professor Risler is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA). Professor Risler was the recipient of the 2016 PICPA Volunteer Service Award.

In 2011, Professor Risler was named the Director of the Fox School Master of Accountancy Program. In March 2017, she was appointed to the Pennsylvania State Board of Accountancy as a board member for a 4-year term. Since joining the Fox School, Professor Risler has enjoyed teaching undergraduate Auditing and Senior Seminar in Accounting and Advanced Auditing in the MAcc program. She has received several faculty awards, including the 2009 Beta Alpha Psi Teacher of the Year award and the 2012 Master of Accountancy Faculty Award. Professor Risler also received the Musser Award for Faculty Service in November 2013.

Dr. David Ryan joined the Fox School in 1989 after a successful career in public accounting working with small businesses.  He earned an undergraduate degree in accounting at Penn State and graduate degrees in international business and accounting at the University of South Carolina.  Dr. Ryan is a Pennsylvania CPA and teaches federal income taxation as well as financial accounting at Fox.  He studies the effects of tax policy and has published papers on the behavioral and distributive effects of tax law changes in both professional and academic journals.

Dr. Minhui “Barbara” Su joins the Fox School on a tenure-track appointment within the Department of Accounting, upon the completion of her doctoral studies at the University of Toronto.

Her current research primarily focuses on financial institutions and debt markets. One of the common themes of her research projects is to study the spillover effect of banking regulations or banking practices on non-financial firms that rely on banks as credit suppliers.

Her teaching interests include financial accounting and managerial accounting. She is a winner of the 2016 Excellence in Teaching Award of the Rotman School of Management.

Prior to joining the PhD program, she accumulated work experience in various accounting and consulting roles at Diageo, General Electric, Ernst & Young, Bain & Company, and Roland Berger.

Su recently earned her PhD in Accounting from the University of Toronto. She received a Master of Science degree in Accounting from Queen’s University in Canada, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Dr. Wei Wang joins the Fox School on a tenure-track appointment within the Department of Accounting, upon the completion of his doctoral program at the University of Missouri at Columbia.

Wang’s research centers on the role of corporate transparency and corporate governance in capital markets. His research interests include banking, debt contracting, and the economic effects of financial reporting.

His most recent work, published by the Management Science, examined the effects of hedge fund activism on targeted companies’ disclosure and earnings management behavior.

Wang received his PhD in Accounting from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He earned a Master of Science degree in Accounting from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Lake Forest College.

Dr. Wayne W. Williams is an Assistant Professor of Accounting.

He joins the Fox School from the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP), where he had served since 2004 as a faculty member and Director of Education Services.

At CCP, Williams served on committees to support the college’s five-year strategic plan and promote programs designed to improve success rates for students of color. He also launched an entrepreneurship education program with CCP’s largest grant award to date.

Williams earned his Doctor of Education in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Master of Science in Taxation and Financial Planning from Widener University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the Fox School.

Wurst joined the accounting department in 1998.  His current research interests include assessing the impact of ubiquitous computing in the university classroom and effective teaching methods for large sections. He coordinates the accounting 2101 courses and the Fox School Accounting Tutoring Center.