Dr. Elizabeth Gordon
Associate Professor & Merves Scholar
Elizabeth A. Gordon, is an Associate Professor of Accounting with tenure at Temple University, and Merves Scholar. She specializes in the areas of international financial reporting and corporate governance investigating topics such as accounting restatements, corporate communications, executive compensation, related party transactions, market development and corporate disclosure, and international financial reporting standards. Her research is published in top journals in her field including the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and The Accounting Review. She serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of International Accounting Research and The International Journal of Accounting and is an ex-offico member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Accounting Education and Research. Dr. Gordon has taught courses in financial accounting and international accounting at the graduate and undergraduate levels, receiving a number of teaching awards. Dr. Gordon was an auditor with Price Waterhouse and interned at the Office of Management and Budget before entering academe. She has been on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, the Rutgers Business School, and a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gordon received her Doctorate from Columbia University, Masters in Business Administration from Yale University and Bachelors of Science in accounting with highest distinction from Indiana University.
