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Isenberg School of Management Department of Accounting

Graham Gal

Associate Professor of Accounting

Telephone: 413-545-5649
Email: gfgal@som.umass.edu
Office: SOM 307D
Syllabus: ACCTG 311, ACCTG 312

Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1985
B.A., University of Michigan, 1975

Selected Publications:

“Databases and Internal Controls.” In Business Encyclopedia.

“Interface Style and Training Task Difficulty as Determinants of Effective Computer Assisted Knowledge Transfer.” Decision Sciences.

“Expert Systems and AI-Based Decision Support in Auditing: Progress and Perspectives,” Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance, and Management.

“Expertise, Experts, and Expert Systems Development,” Expert Systems: Planning, Implementation, Integration.

Academic and Professional Activities:

Member, Information Technology Curriculum Taskforce, SITEC Center
Reviewer and moderator, AAA Northeast Region
Member, Association for Computing Machinery
Member, American Accounting Association

Photo: Graham Gal - Associate Professor of Accounting

Research Interests:

Internal controls models
Control and audit of e-commerce
Business Process Models
Security
Information system models
Object Oriented Design of Accounting Systems
Development of Business Ontologies, Frameworks for continuous monitoring, Security for continuous reporting


Teaching Interests:

Information systems: analysis and design, control, accounting information
Managerial accounting
Database design
Ethical Hacking