Dr. Lawrence Gordon
Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting and Information Assurance
and the Director of the Ph.D. Program
University of Maryland
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Dr. Lawrence A. Gordon is the Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting and
Information Assurance, and the Director of the Ph.D. Program at The Robert H. Smith School of
Business. He is also an Affiliate Professor in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced
Computer Studies. Dr. Gordon earned his Ph.D. in Managerial Economics (with an emphasis on
applying economics and statistics to accounting) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. An
internationallyknown scholar in the area of managerial accounting, Dr. Gordon's research focuses on
such issues as corporate performance measures, cost management systems, information security,
and capital investments. He is the author of more than 85 articles, published in such journals as
The Accounting Review, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Accounting Organizations
and Society, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Decision Sciences, Omega, Journal of Business
Finance and Accounting, Journal of Computer Security, Accounting and Business Research, Managerial
and Decision Economics, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Communications of
the ACM, and Management Accounting Research. Dr. Gordon's current research emphasizes the
importance of utilizing concepts from managerial accounting and economics within an information-based
economy. Dr. Gordon also is the author of several books, including Managerial Accounting: Concepts
and Empirical Evidence, and Capital Budgeting: A Decision Support System Approach. In addition,
he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and serves on the editorial
boards of several other journals. In two recent studies, Dr. Gordon was cited as being among the
world's most influential/productive accounting researchers.

An award-winning teacher, Dr. Gordon has been an invited speaker at numerous universities around the
world, including Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Toronto, London Business School
and London School of Economics. He also has served as a consultant to several private (e.g., IBM) and
public (e.g., U.S. General Accounting Office) organizations. Dr. Gordon's former Ph.D. students are currently
distinguished faculty at such universities as the University of Pennsylvania, Ohio State University, Michigan
State University, The College of William and Mary, and National Taiwan University. His former M.B.A. students
frequently call him on the"Management Accounting Hotline" (affectionately named by his students) to discuss issues
confronting their organizations. Dr. Gordon also is an active member of various professional organizations, a frequent
contributor to the popular press (e.g., The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Financial Times), and served as the
President of the University of Maryland Faculty/Staff Club for over a decade. Prior to joining Maryland, Dr. Gordon was
a faculty member at McGill University and the University of Kansas. He also served as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University
while on sabbatical from Maryland.