About Isenberg Contact US Giving to Isenberg

David Piercey

M. David Piercey
 

Assistant Professor of Accounting


Telephone: 413-545-5585

Email: piercey@som.umass.edu

Office: SOM 335

 

 


Education:

Ph.D. University of Illinois 2006
M.Acc. Brigham Young University 1999
B.S. Brigham Young University 1999

Research/Teaching Interests:

Accounting judgment & decision making

Auditing

Managerial accounting

Financial accounting

 


 

Selected Publications:

"Motivated Reasoning and Verbal vs. Numerical Probability Assessment: Evidence from an Accounting Context," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, March 2009, 108: 330-341.

"Judging Audit Quality in Light of Adverse Outcomes: Evidence of Outcome Bias and Reverse Outcome Bias," with M. Peecher, Contemporary Accounting Research, Spring 2008, 25: 243-274.

 

Papers Presented:

"Managing Managers: Internal Auditors' Use of Arguments and Interpersonal Relationships in a Corporate Governance Setting," working paper (as currently titled), with K. Fanning, American Accounting Association Accounting, Behavior, and Organizations Research Conference (Outstanding Emerging Scholar Award Winner) 

 

"Managing Managers: Internal Auditors' Use of Arguments and Interpersonal Relationships in a Corporate Governance Setting," working paper (as currently titled), with K. Fanning, American Accounting Association Annual Meeting

 

"The Effects of a Supervisor's Active Intervention in Subordinates' Judgments, Directional Goals, and Perceived Technical Knowledge Advantage on Audit Team Judgments," working paper (as currently titled),  with M. Peecher, J. Rich, and R. Tubbs, 14th International Symposium on Auditing Research (lead plenary conference paper)

 

"Judging Auditor Negligence: De-biasing Interventions, Outcome Bias, and Reverse Outcome Bias," working paper, with J. Grenier and M. Peecher, 14th International Symposium on Auditing Research 

 

"The Effects of a Supervisor's Active Intervention in Subordinates' Judgments, Directional Goals, and Perceived Technical Knowledge Advantage on Audit Team Judgments," working paper (as currently titled),  with M. Peecher, J. Rich, and R. Tubbs, American Accounting Association Annual Meeting

 

"Judging Auditor Negligence: De-biasing Interventions, Outcome Bias, and Reverse Outcome Bias," working paper, with J. Grenier and M. Peecher, American Accounting Association Audit Meeting

 

"Unintended Effects of Documentation Requirements on Audit Risk Assessments," working paper (as currently titled), American Accounting Association Accounting, Behavior, and Organizations Research Conference (Best Dissertation Award Winner)

 

"Unintended Effects of Documentation Requirements on Audit Risk Assessments," working paper (as currently titled), American Accounting Association Annual Meeting

 

"Judging Audit Quality in Light of Adverse Outcomes: Evidence of Outcome Bias and Reverse Outcome Bias," with M. Peecher, 21st Contemporary Accounting Research Conference

 

"Judging Audit Quality in Light of Adverse Outcomes: Evidence of Outcome Bias and Reverse Outcome Bias," with M. Peecher, American Accounting Association Audit Doctoral Consortium

 

"Judging Audit Quality in Light of Adverse Outcomes: Evidence of Outcome Bias and Reverse Outcome Bias," with M. Peecher, 1st Annual Accounting Research Symposium, Brigham Young University

 

"Judging Audit Quality in Light of Adverse Outcomes: Evidence of Outcome Bias and Reverse Outcome Bias," (as titled in Contemporary Accounting Research), with M. Peecher, 9th Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, Duke University


Academic and Professional Activities:

Ad hoc reviewer, The Accounting Review

 

Ad hoc reviewer, Contemporary Accounting Research 

 

Ad hoc reviewer, Accounting, Organizations and Society

 

Ad hoc reviewer, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory

 

Ad hoc reviewer, Behavioral Research in Accounting

 

Invited presentations of research to accounting research workshops at Cornell University, Georgia State University, Indiana University, Michigan State University, Northeastern University, the University of Alberta, the University of Illinois, the University of Massachusetts, the University of Washington, the University of Waterloo, and Washington University.

 

Invited faculty career panelist, American Accounting Association Accounting, Behavior and Organizations Doctoral Consortium

 

Reviewer and discussant, American Accounting Association Annual Meetings

 

Reviewer and discussant, American Accounting Association Accounting, Behavior and Organizations Research Conferences

 

Reviewer and discussant, American Accounting Association Audit Meetings

 

Reviewer, University of Illinois Symposium on Audit Research

 

Board of directors and consulting activities

 

Selected Awards:

Outstanding Emerging Scholar Award, Accounting, Behavior and Organizations Research Conference, 2009

 

College Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management, 2009

 

Tied for best paper and lead plenary conference paper, International Symposium on Auditing Research, 2008

Invited participant, United States of America Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (U.S. PCAOB) Symposium, 2008, 2009

 

Accounting, Behavior, & Organizations Outstanding Dissertation Award, American Accounting Association, 2007

Deloitte & Touche Doctoral Fellowship, 2003-2005

University of Illinois College of Business Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award, 2005


AAA Deloitte J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2005

Marvin and Nancy Dennis Doctoral Fellowship, 2003-2005

 

Victor L. Bernard Memorial Scholar Award, 2004

 

University of Illinois Fred H. Figge Distinguished Teaching Award in Accountancy, 2003