MAcc Valuation Program
Contact Us
MaccValuation@owen.vanderbilt.edu
Phone: 615.322.2215
Meet the Team
Lindsay Donald
MAcc Valuation Program Director
MS in Educational Administration--Texas A&M University, 2005
BBA in Accounting--North Georgia College and State University, 1997
Lindsay Donald joined Vanderbilt University in 2011 with the specific focus of helping build the MAcc Valuation Program. Lindsay manages the admissions, career management and program implementation for this program, drawing on more than 10 years of experience with KPMG's recruiting function and significant experience working with the student activities functions at two academic institutions.
Please reach out to Lindsay if you have any questions about the MAcc Valuation Program admissions and interview process, partner firm recruiting process, CFA or CPA review courses, or what life is like as a Vanderbilt MAcc Valuation student.
Jennifer Masterson
Admissions Assistant
615.343.3882
M.Ed. Education Administration—Lipscomb University, 1998
B.S. Government and Public Administration—Lipscomb University, 1992
Jennifer Masterson joined Vanderbilt University in 2010. Jennifer helps manage the admissions process for the MAcc and MAcc Valuation programs. Jennifer comes to Vanderbilt with a good bit of admissions experience having previously worked as Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Lipscomb University, Associate Director of Admissions and Operations Management at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and as Implementation Manager at ApplyYourself (now Hobson’s ApplyYourself – the world’s most widely used online application system). Jennifer has lived in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Virginia but now resides in Franklin, TN with her husband and 3 children.
Please contact Jennifer if you have any questions about your application or the application process.
Karl Hackenbrack, PhD, CPA
Associate Dean, Evaluation and Program Development
Faculty Director, MAcc Programs (Audit and Valuation)
Associate Professor of Accounting
Karl Hackenbrack joined the Owen faculty as an Associate Professor in 2004 from the Fisher School of Accounting at the University of Florida, where he had been a tenured Associate Professor since 1995. The focus of Karl’s scholarship is mandated corporate disclosure. His writings and teachings address corporate governance issues associated with external financial reporting, including fraudulent financial reporting, the structure of accounting standards, the public accounting industry, corporate valuation and the regulation of professional services.
Karl is currently working on papers that examine audit client retention and engagement-level pricing pressures, mandatory disclosure and the joint sourcing of audit and management advisory services, as well as the trade-offs among corporate governance mechanisms. He was a PricewaterhouseCoopers Fellow the past five years and received numerous teaching awards at the University of Florida. Karl was also a KPMG Faculty Fellow from 1995 to 1998 and a Visiting Professor at Owen from 2002 to 2003.
Karl has been an editorial board member of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory since 1996, an editorial board member of the Accounting Review from 1996 to 1999 and an ad hoc reviewer for many journals. From 1999 to 2001 Karl was a member of the Independence Standards Board's Legal Services Task Force, from 1997 to 2002 a PhD Coordinator at the University of Florida and from 2001 to 2002 chair of the American Accounting Association's New Faculty Consortium Committee.
Tami Tinsley Fassinger
Chief Recruiting Officer615.322.2402
MBA—Rollins College, 1987
BA Russian—Vanderbilt University, 1985
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Tami Fassinger began her MBA career in marketing and product management with NCR Corporation in Ohio, focusing on new product releases and marketing communications. Her recruiting and training expertise includes corporate recruiting and staffing in the consulting industry as a western regional director and national recruiting director for Cap Gemini; executive search work in the technology and consulting industries for MRI in Denver; consulting to the Graduate Management Admission Council® in Virginia, owner of the GMAT® exam; university administration including EMBA degree and executive non-degree program management, MBA career services and MBA student recruiting and admissions at Vanderbilt. While at Vanderbilt's career services office, Tami co-authored Adams Job Interview Almanac, a popular business career book published in 1996. As Chief Recruiting Officer, Tami’s role helps students take a more career-centric approach to evaluating their choice of program within the Owen portfolio as well as maximizing potential career opportunities once enrolled.
A native of Sarasota, Florida, Tami lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with her husband, two daughters and her dog. She writes fiction, likes to cook, loves to eat, and spends as much time as possible outdoors or in Nashville's eclectic music venues.
Meet Tami in one of these locations in 2012:
Atlanta, Birmingham, Bowling Green, Chattanooga, Clarksville, Evansville, Hopkinsville, Houston, Huntsville, Knoxville, Lexington, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville, Paducah, and Tampa.