Online Master of Science in Accountancy

Faculty

The faculty in the online MSA degree program have completed the highest levels of accounting, law and finance education. They are distinguished practitioners, with recognition from industry leaders.

Our instructors have decades of experience, spanning research, teaching, consulting, business leadership and senior accounting roles.

Hui Lin

Professor and Director
School of Accountancy & MIS

Education
PhD, Accounting & Information Systems, Virginia Tech
MACC, Accounting, Virginia Tech
BS, Accounting & Information Systems, Virginia Tech

Biography

Hui Lin is the director of the School of Accountancy & MIS at the Driehaus College of Business. Hui Lin has taught in DePaul’s School of Accountancy & MIS since 2008 and maintains her commitment to bringing students high-quality accounting education. She has been recognized with the Driehaus College of Business Excellence in Online Teaching Award (2018) and the DePaul University Excellence in Teaching Award (2014).

Lin is a published expert in the areas of IT governance, internal controls, information security, data analytics and knowledge management. Having worked as an independent consultant in implementing enterprise information systems, she brings together an academic and diverse business perspective. She is especially interested in the relationships between social, psychological and technological factors that impact knowledge management in organizations.

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Ray Whittington

Professor
School of Accountancy & MIS

Education
PhD, Business, University of Houston
MSA, Accountancy, Texas Tech University
BBA, Sam Houston University

Professional Certifications
Certified Public Accountant
Certified Internal Auditor
Certified Management Accountant

Biography

Ray Whittington is professor of accountancy. He is a certified public accountant, certified management accountant and certified internal auditor.

He teaches auditing and has published extensively within the field, including books on audit sampling and auditing principles. He has also helped to build an extensive and active alumni network for DePaul Accountancy & MIS graduates. Dr. Whittington formerly served as dean of the Driehaus College of Business.

Whittington is highly distinguished across the accounting and business fields. In 2001, he was named one of the top 100 most influential people in accounting by Accounting Today. He has received the Ernst & Young Outstanding Professor Award twice, and each year from 2006-2016, Crain’s Chicago Business highlighted him in its “Who’s Who in Chicago” list.

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Ning Du

Associate Professor, Dr. Barry J. Epstein Faculty Fellow and Director of the MS in Accountancy Program
School of Accountancy & MIS

Education
PhD Accounting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BA, Institute of International Relations

Biography

Ning Du is an associate professor and also serves as DePaul’s associate director for regional initiatives – China. She also serves as the Dr. Barry J. Epstein faculty fellow and director of the MS in Accountancy program.

Du has taught financial accounting and reporting at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research bridges the gap between psychology and accounting with a special focus on judgment and decision-making for financial information users. She has published many articles in various journals including Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance, Accounting Research Journal, International Journal of Forecas​ting, The CPA Journal, Research in Accounting Regulations, Strategic Finance and Managerial Auditing.

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  • “The Effects of Imprecise Probabilities and Outcomes in Evaluating Investment Options,” with David V. Budescu, 2005, Management Science 51(12), 1791–1803
  • “Coherence and Consistency of Investors’ Probability Judgments,” with David V. Budescu, 2007, Management Science 53(11), 1731–1744
  • “Does Past Volatility Affect Investors’ Price Forecasts and Confidence Judgments?” with David V. Budescu, 2007, International Journal of Forecasting 23 (3), 497-511
  • “Do Investors React Differently to Range and Point Management Earnings Forecasts?” 2009, Journal of Behavioral Finance 10 (4), 195-203

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Cindy Durtschi

Ledger & Quill Professor
School of Accountancy & MIS

Education
PhD, Accounting, University of Arizona
MACC, Accounting, University of Arizona
MA, Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Biography

Cindy Durtschi has served as an accounting professor with DePaul for more than 10 years. She is both a distinguished researcher and highly sought speaker on a range of topics, including fraud, accounting education and auditing. She has been recognized with teaching awards, including the “Driehaus College of Business Teaching Recognition” award in both 2016 and 2018 as well as the American Accounting Association’s “Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education” award in 2006.

Durtschi has spoken or presented at the American Accounting Association multiple years since 2014. She currently serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research, Issues in Accounting Education and the Journal of accounting and Free Enterprise.

Her research and work have been leveraged throughout the academic community and the accounting field. Her instructional resource, “The Tallahassee BeanCounters: A Problem-Based Learning Case in Forensic Auditing,” published in Issues in Accounting Education, is used in the Certification Examination for Internal Auditors (CFD). Durtschi is former president of the Forensic and Investigative Accounting section of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and currently serves as chair of the AAA Council.

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Tawei (David) Wang

Associate Professor and Director, MS in Audit and Advisory Services Program
School of Accountancy & MIS

Education
PhD, Management Information Systems, Purdue University
MBA, Accounting, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
BBA, Accounting, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Professional Certifications
Certified Public Accountant, Taiwan
Certified Internal Auditor
Certified Computer Assisted Audit Techniques Practitioner
Harvard Case Teaching Level I
Certified ERP Audit Professional
CSX Cybersecurity Fundamentals Certificate

Biography

Tawei (David) Wang is an associate professor, associate dean for operational effectiveness, a Driehaus Fellow and director of the MS in Audit and Advisory Services program at the Driehaus College of Business. Wang, who has been published widely across leading journals, has received several research awards and is currently the second most productive researcher in accounting information systems’ archival research based on the Brigham Young University accounting researcher ranking. His articles have been downloaded more than 30,000 times through the Science Direct network.

At DePaul, Wang mainly teaches audit analytics and has been invited by universities and conferences around the world to discuss curriculum design and analytics teaching strategies. He is now on the Fulbright Specialist Roster for developing analytics curriculum for accounting/auditing programs. He was a speaker of analytics at a chief audit executive roundtable hosted by the Institute of Internal Auditors. He was also a speaker of cybersecurity and analytics at the 2019 American Accounting Association AIS Bootcamp, and was involved in the development of cybersecurity curriculum guidelines by Association for Computing Machinery. In 2018, Wang was selected to be the KPMG James Marwick professor in residence.

He actively serves in the professional community as a workshop/conference coordinator, reviewer and editorial board member. In 2020, Wang served as the editor of the Journal of Information Systems as well as the president of the AAA Midwest Region.

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  • Huang, S.-M., T. Wang, J.-C. Yen, C.-B. Lee, Y.-C. Wang, and Y.-T. Yang. 2022. The Use of Geographic Information in Audit Data Analytics for Evidence Gathering: A Design Science Approach. Journal of Information System.
  • Wang, T., J.-C. Yen, and K. Yoon. 2022. Responses to SEC Comment Letters on Cybersecurity Disclosures: An Exploratory Study. International Journal of Accounting Information Systems
  • Wang, T., and X. Deng. 2022. User Characteristics, Social Media Use, and Fatigue During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Stressor–Strain–Outcome Framework. Computers in Human Behavior Reports
  • Wang, Y.-Y., and T. Wang. 2022. Python Code and Illustrative Crisis Management Data from Twitter. Journal of Information System

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Diane Kuhlmann

Clinical Professor and Director, MS in Taxation Program
School of Accountancy & MIS

Education
PhD, Human Resource Development, University of Minnesota
MBT, Accountancy, University of Minnesota
MBA, Business Administration, University of Minnesota

Professional Certifications
Certified Public Accountant (Minnesota)

Biography

Diane Kuhlmann is the director of the MST Program and clinical professor in the School of Accountancy & MIS at DePaul University. She received her PhD in Human Resource Development from the University of Minnesota in 2013. Her other graduate degrees include an MBT (Masters of Business Taxation) and an MBA, both from the University of Minnesota. She previously was director of tax training at RSM. Earlier in her career she worked as a tax accountant at Deloitte and RSM.

Kuhlmann teaches Tax Treatment of Individuals and Property; Tax Treatment of Corporations and Partnerships; and Comparative Tax Systems. In addition, she serves as the faculty liaison with the online Master of Science in Taxation programs. Her research focuses primarily on the areas of structuring the curriculum to develop tax expertise. She has been published in the Tax Advisor.​

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Susan Lueders

Clinical Professor
School of Accountancy & MIS

Education
EdD, Educational Leadership, DePaul University
MS, Accountancy, University of Illinois
BS, Accountancy and Business Administration, Illinois State University

Biography

Susan Lueders has served as a Senior Professional Lecturer at DePaul University since 1990. She teaches a blend of graduate- and undergraduate-level coursework at the School of Accountancy & MIS. Previously, Lueders worked at the Bakers Square division of VICORP Restaurants as the Manager of Financial Analysis and at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells as an auditor. She is a registered CPA in Illinois.

In addition to her work in accountancy, Lueders’ research interests include exploring the use of teaching strategies to impact the academic and social challenges faced by first-generation college students. She has served on numerous committees at DePaul since 2006.

Lueders is a member of the American Accounting Association, the Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Fraternity and the Illinois CPA Society.

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Eileen Marutzky

Clinical Professor
School of Accountancy & MIS

Education
JD Law, IIT Chicago Kent
BS, Accounting, DePaul University

Professional Certifications
Certified Public Accountant

Biography

Eileen Marutzky is a distinguished accounting educator and legal expert, having served as deputy assistant United States attorney and senior litigation counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice. Marutzky has more than 30 years of experience teaching undergraduate- and graduate-level coursework at DePaul’s School of Accountancy & MIS. Additionally, she is a registered CPA in Illinois.

Marutzky has been recognized for both her work as an educator and her legal work with the Justice Department, having been nominated for the Illinois CPA society’s “Educator of the Year” award, receiving the U.S. Department of Justice “Special Achievement Award for Sustained Superior Performance” and receiving the United States Attorney General’s “Special Commendation Award.”

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Mary Mindak

Associate Professor, Director, Strobel Honors Program and RSM Fellow
School of Accountancy & MIS

Education
PhD, Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting, University of Cincinnati
MACC, Accounting, Miami University
BS, Accounting, Miami University

Professional Certifications
Certified Public Accountant

Biography

Mary Mindak is an associate professor and director of the Strobel Honors Program​ in the School of Accountancy & MIS at DePaul University. She has also served as faculty advisor for the DePaul chapter of Global Brigades, a student-led organization committed to resolving economic and health disparities worldwide and as faculty advisor to the DePaul chapter of Collegiate DECA, an organization dedicated to supporting emerging leaders.

In addition to her academic career, Mindak has worked for two of the Big Four accounting firms: Ernst & Young and PwC. In her roles with these companies, she focused on auditing services for several industries, including manufacturing, public companies, healthcare nonprofits, financial services and retail.

Her academic research interests include publications on audit risk, fraud, corporate environmental responsibility and forensic accounting.

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Gary Chen

Assistant Professor
School of Accountancy & MIS

Education
PhD, Accounting, Northwestern University, 2014
MS, Accounting, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007
MS, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001

Biography

Gary Chen has a diverse background in accounting and engineering. His research intersects accounting with corporate social responsibility, finance, information technology, labor relations and supply chain management. His interdisciplinary approach to research provides new insights into the economic forces that impact corporate accounting disclosures and those that drive information search by decision makers.

His research has been published by leading journals including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Information Systems and Accounting & Finance, among others. Chen teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in accounting information systems. Prior to joining DePaul, he taught courses in advanced financial accounting as well as contemporary accounting issues and research at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He has received the Dean’s Recognition for Outstanding Teaching at UIC.

Chen is actively involved in the profession. He has presented his work at various seminars and conferences. His research has been nominated for several best conference paper awards. Chen regularly serves as a referee and conference discussant and has received the FARS Excellence in Reviewing ​Award.

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