Dr. Randy Elder

Dr. Randy Elder is department head and FORVIS Mazars professor of accounting in the Bryan School of Business & Economics at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He was previously a professor at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, including serving as director of the Lubin School of Accounting at Whitman. He earned his doctorate in 1993 from Michigan State University. He has extensive public accounting experience with a large regional CPA firm, frequently taught continuing education for a large international CPA firm, and is a member of the AICPA.

Randy teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on auditing practice and theory and a graduate fraud examination course. He was twice selected as the Whitman School of Management Outstanding Teacher and was also selected as Beta Gamma Sigma Instructor of the Year and recipient of the Oberwager Prize for student mentoring at Whitman. He is a co-author on the leading auditing textbook, Auditing and Assurance Services: An Integrated Approach.

Dr. Elder′s research has been published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons, and Issues in Accounting Education. He is currently an editor for Issues in Accounting Education and serves on the editorial board of Accounting Horizons, Journal of Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting, International Journal of Auditing, and Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management.