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Associate Professor
James E. Rooks Distinguished Professor in Accounting
School of Accountancy
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Ave., BSN 3403
Tampa, FL 33620-5500
e-mail: JRECK@coba.usf.edu
Teaching and Research Interests
Teaching interests are primarily financial and government-nonprofit accounting.Research interests include government accounting/auditing, accounting information systems, and the reporting and use of non-financial information.
Education
Ph.D. Accountancy, University of Missouri-Columbia, August 1996M.Acc., Accountancy, University of South Florida, 1989
B.S., Accountancy, University of South Florida, 1988
B.S., Education and Dietetics, North Dakota State University
Academic Experience
Assistant professor, University of South Florida, August 1997 to presentVisiting assistant professor, University of South Florida, August 1996 through May 1997
Instructor, University of South Florida, August 1989 through May 1992
Courses taught or coordinated:Principles of Financial Accounting
Principles of Managerial Accounting
Governmental Accounting and Budgeting
Nonprofit Organization Accounting (fifth year course)
Intermediate I Financial Accounting
Development of Accounting Thought (MAcc course)
Financial Accounting Seminar for Ph.D. students
Professional Qualifications and Affiliations
American Accounting AssociationGovernment Nonprofit SectionFinancial Accounting and Reporting Section
Information Systems Section
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Association of Government Accountants
Government Finance Officers Association
Certified Public Accountant (Florida)
Beta Gamma Sigma
Refereed Published Research
Reck, J. L. 2001. "The Usefulness of Financial & Nonfinancial Performance Information in Resource Allocation Decisions." Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 20(Spring): 45-71.Hayes, D. C., J. E. Hunton, J. L. Reck. 2001. "Market Reaction to ERP Implementation Announcements." Journal of Information Systems, 15(1):3-18.
Reck, J. L. 2000. "Ethics and Budget Allocation Decisions of Municipal Budget Officers." Journal of Business Ethics, 27:335-350.
Hayes, D. C., J. E. Hunton, J. L. Reck. 2000. "Information Systems Outsourcing Announcements: Investigating the Impact on the Market Value of Contract Granting and Receiving Firms." Journal of Information Systems, 14(2): 109-125..
Hutchison, P.D., D.W. Johnson, J. L. Reck. 1998. "An Investigation of the Information Content of an Environmental Disclosure in the Oil and Gas Industry.," Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly, 46(4):1495-1505.
Refereed Accepted Papers
Lowensohn, S. and J. L. Reck. "Methods and Resources to Increase Student Interest in Governmental Accounting." Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting and Financial Management. forthcoming.Reck, J. L, E. R. Wilson, D. Gotlob and C. Lawrence. "Governmental Capital Markets Research in Accounting: A Review, Extension, and Directions for Future Research." Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting. forthcoming, volume 11.
Hunton, J. E., B. Lippincott and J. L. Reck. "Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: Comparing Firm Performance of Adopters and Non-Adopters." International Journal of Accounting Information Systems. forthcoming.
Lowensohn, S. and J. L. Reck. "A Longitudinal Analysis of Local Government Audit Quality." Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting. forthcoming, volume11.
Working Papers
Hunton, J. E., R. Pinsker and J. L. Reck. "Investigating the Reaction of Relatively Unsophisticated Investors to Audit Assurance on Firm-Initiated News Announcements." (under review)Hunton, J. E. and J. L. Reck. "Does assurance on firm-initiated news announcements impact individual investors' stock valuations?"
Feroz, E., J. Johnson, J. L. Reck and E. R. Wilson. "The Value-Relevance of Accounting Information in Segmented Markets for Initial Public Offerings." (under review)
Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings
Americas Conference on Information Systems, Milwaukee, August 1999, "Information Systems Outsourcing Announcements: Investigating the Impact on the Market Value of Contract Granting and Receiving Firms"
Presentations
Hunton, J. E., J. L. Reck and R. E. Pinsker. "Investigating the Reaction of Relatively Unsophisticated Investors to Audit Assurance on Firm-Released News Announcements." Presented at the American Accounting Association annual meeting, Hawaii, August 2004.Hunton, J. E., J. L. Reck and R. E. Pinsker. "Investigating the Reaction of Relatively Unsophisticated Investors to Audit Assurance on Firm-Released News Announcements." Invited presentation at Texas A&M faculty workshop, January 2003.
Hunton, J. E., J. L. Reck and R. E. Pinsker. "Investigating the Reaction of Relatively Unsophisticated Investors to Audit Assurance on Firm-Released News Announcements." Presented at the 5th Continuous Assurance Symposium. Newark, NJ, November 2002.
Hunton, J. E., J. L. Reck and R. E. Pinsker. "Investigating the Reaction of Relatively Unsophisticated Investors to Audit Assurance on Firm-Released News Announcements." Invited presentation at University of Central Florida faculty workshop, November 2003.
"Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: Comparing Firm Performance of Adopters and Non-Adopters," with James E. Hunton and Barbara Lippincott, presented at the American Accounting Association annual meeting, San Antonio, August 2002.
"A Longitudinal Analysis of Local Government Audit Quality," with Suzanne Lowensohn, presented at the Government Nonprofit section meeting of the American Accounting Association, Baton Rouge, March 2002.
"Interesting Students in Government Accounting", presented at the Public Administration Conference on Education, Ft. Lauderdale, January 2000.
"The Usefulness of Financial & Nonfinancial Performance Information in Resource Allocation Decisions", presented at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 1997.
"The Usefulness of Financial & Nonfinancial Performance Information in Resource Allocation Decisions", presented at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, August 1997.
Professional Conferences, Seminars and Meetings
American Accounting Association, Annual Meeting, 1995-2003.American Accounting Association, Government and Nonprofit Section Midyear Meeting, 1995-1997 and 1999-2002.
American Accounting Association, Information Systems Section Midyear Meeting, 2002-2003.
American Accounting Association, Midwest Regional Meeting, St. Louis, 1993.
Government Finance Officers Association, Annual Meeting, 2002 and 2000.
Government Finance Officers Association, Advanced Governmental Accounting Seminar, Tampa, FL, February 2001.
Teaching and Service
Dissertation and Thesis Committee WorkPh. D. committee co-chair for Robert Slater (current)
Ph.D. committee member for Antoinette Lynch (current)
Ph.D. committee co-chair for El-Hussein El-Masry's dissertation proposal, "Impact of Excessive Cue Redundancy on Audit Efficiency and Effectiveness" (current)
Ph.D. committee co-chair for Robert Pinsker's dissertation, "The Impact of Continuous Business Reporting on Stock Price Valuation, Volatility and Variation" (2002)
Ph.D. committee member for Tanya Benford's dissertation, "Determinants of Audit Performance: An Investigation of Task/Technology Fit and Mental Workload" (2000)
Ph.D. committee member for Christie Comunale's dissertation, "Auditor's Judgments in the Analytic Task: The Joint Influence of Management's Credibility and Linguistic Delivery Style" (1999)
Ph.D. committee member for Julie Billiris, education, dissertation, "Accounting Outcomes Assessment: The Development and Initial Validation of an Assessment Tool to Measure Cognitive Introductory Accounting Knowledge" (2001)
Thesis committee chair for senior honors student Karen Russell's thesis, "Where to Draw the Line: Ethical Decision Making & Accounting Principles" (2001)
School of Accountancy, College of Business Administration and University
Member of the School of Accountancy Ph.D. Committee, 1997-present, ad hoc member in 1996-1997, developed and implemented a one credit teaching seminar for Ph.D. students, Ph.D. program coordinator 2002-
Member of the School of Accountancy Faculty Fund Committee, 1999-present
Member of the School of Accountancy Ad Hoc Masters of Accountancy Curriculum Committee, 2002-2003
Member of the School of Accountancy Johnson Endowed Chair Search Committee, 2002-2003
Member of the School of Accountancy Quinn Endowed Chair Search Committee, 2001-2002
Member of the School of Accountancy Ad Hoc Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2001-2002
Member of the School of Accountancy Tax Faculty Search Committee, 1998-1999
Member of the School of Accountancy Financial Accounting Faculty Search Committee, 1997-1998
Member of the School of Accountancy Managerial Accounting Faculty Search Committee, 1997-1998
Member of the College of Business Administration Ph.D. Committee, 2002-2003.
Member of the College of Business Administration Committee on Research and Scholarship, 2001-2002
Speaker at the University of South Florida Leadership Retreat, Chinsegut, "Financial Accounting Research Update," 1999
Editorial board Journal of Information Systems, 2003
Editorial board Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting and Financial Management, 2003
Ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Information Systems, 2002
Ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Business Ethics, 2002
Ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2001
Ad hoc reviewer for the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, 2001
Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Business and Behavioral Research, 2001
Manuscript reviewer for the AAA, Accounting Information Systems section of the annual meeting, 2003
Manuscript reviewer for the Accounting Information Systems Section midyear meeting, 2001-2002
Manuscript reviewer for the AAA, GNP section of the annual meeting, 1998-2003
Manuscript reviewer for the AAA, Southeast section meeting, 2002, 2001, 2000
Manuscript reviewer for the AAA, GNP section outstanding doctoral dissertation award, 1998.
Southeast section coordinator, GNP section of AAA, 2002
Moderator for the Southeast section meeting of the AAA, 2001
Moderator for AAA, GNP section of the annual meeting, 1998
Speaker at the West Coast FICPA Chapter meeting, 2003.
Speaker at the Accounting Circle Conference, 2002, 2000,1998 and 1997, "Governmental Accounting Update"
Speaker at the Beta Alpha Psi Conference, 2001, "Florida Single Audit Act"
Speaker at the FICPA Conference, 1998, "Governmental Accounting Update"
Member of the GASB user panel on determining what financial statement information is useful in assessing a government's financial health. 2002.
Honors and Awards
Named James E. Rooks Distinguished Professor in Accounting (2003-)College of Business Administration Outstanding Research Award (2002)
Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Accounting Faculty Award (2002 and 2000)
Division of Sponsored Research Grant (2000)
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Grant, with E. Etter and B. Lippincott (2000)
Rooks Fellows Grant (2000)
Robert M. Trueblood Seminar for Professors (2000)
AAA/AA New Faculty Consortium (1998)
GNP Section of AAA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (1997)
Relevant Experience
Instructor. Taught a 4-hour not-for-profit workshop for practitioners (2003)Speaker. Nonprofit Accounting and Audit Update for practitioners. 2002
Instructor. Taught 2-day governmental accounting and auditing workshops for practitioners (2001, 1999, 1997) and State Auditor General's staff (1999).
Administrator (7 years). North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, Bismarck, ND.
Revised: 7/03