Debra C. Jeter, CPA
Associate Professor of Accounting
Subject Area(s):
Accounting and Taxation
Biography:
A certified public accountant with a distinguished record of professional achievement and participation in the activities of the American Accounting Association (AAA), Professor Jeter has also won numerous accolades for her teaching excellence. She has been a member of the faculty of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University since 1995. In 2006, she was chosen by Beta Alpha Psi and Murray State University, where she received her B.S. and M.B.A., for the Outstanding Alumnus Award. A recipient of the Owen School's Webb Teaching Award in 2002 and its Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in both 1998 and 2003, Jeter has taken her award-winning skills overseas and broadened her experience through multiple international teaching and research assignments. In 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004, she taught at the Vlerick School of Management in Ghent, Belgium in the International Executive MBA program. She is currently serving as a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, making annual visits to collaborate on academic research for the past four years. Professor Jeter has published numerous articles on a broad range of subjects, including the market for audit services, auditor reporting decisions, components of earnings, the quality of earnings, and the modern manufacturing environment. She has also written articles for popular magazines on practical subjects ranging from insurance to taxes. In addition, she has co-authored two textbooks: Advanced Accounting and Cost Accounting: A Decision Emphasis. Professor Jeter's many awards and honors include scholarships and fellowships from Deloitte Haskins & Sells, KPMG Peat Marwick, and the American Accounting Association (AAA). She has been active throughout her career in the AAA, serving yearly as discussant, moderator, panelist or presenter at the annual meetings and at the mid-year Auditing Section meetings. Jeter served on the Editorial Advisory and Review Board of The Accounting Review from 1997 through 2002. She has served as an ad hoc Associate Editor of a second AAA publication, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and begins a term as an Associate Editor of still a third AAA publication, Issues in Accounting Education, in January 2010.
Education:
B.S., Accounting, Murray State University, 1975
M.B.A., Murray State University, 1981
Ph.D., Accounting, Vanderbilt University, 1990
Course(s) Taught:
- MGT 411a/b: Financial Reporting
Research Interest(s):
Earnings and audit quality, with specific interests in earnings management, components of earnings, the market for audit services, audit pricing, and audit opinions.
Media Mentions:
Wall Street Journal, Oct. 21, 1999, page A1; Entrepreneur Magazine, June 2005, page 64; John Goff, CFO Magazine, January 2004 issue;
www.accountingweb.com, "Study: Audit Firms Still Bend Rules to Benefit Big Clients", Oct. 28, 2003;
Brian Hindo at Business Week, October 2003; Rachel Beck at AP's national business desk, October 2003;
www.complianceweek.com (leading resource on governance for U.S. public companies), 10/28/03.
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