Dickins appointed to American Accounting Association Committee

Associate Professor Denise Dickins has been appointed to the Auditing Standards Committee of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA). The AAA is the largest community of accountants in academia, with the mission to promote worldwide excellence in accounting education, research and practice.

Dr. Denise Dickins (Photo by ECU Marketing & Publications)

Dickins has taught at ECU’s College of Business since 2006, where she primarily leads courses in auditing and corporate governance. A seasoned executive, she served in various roles with Arthur Andersen from 1983 to 2002, concluding as partner-in-charge of the South Florida Audit Division. She earned her Ph.D. from Florida Atlantic University in 2006.

Her research interests include the impacts of mandatory auditor rotation and auditor offshoring, and she has published more than 75 articles in academic, pedagogical and practitioner journals. Dickins also serves on the Editorial Advisory and Review Board for Issues in Accounting Education, one of the three primary publications of the American Accounting Association.

She continues to generously fund an annual scholarship for business students in honor of her family’s legacy at East Carolina, which began with her husband’s grandmother in 1925.

–Jennifer Brezina