Richard A. Scott

Andersen Alumni Professor of Commerce

Office phone: 434-924-3675
e-mail: ras8e@virginia.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Accounting and Finance, American University
M.S., Accounting, Boston University
M.B.A., Finance, Columbia University
B.B.A., Finance, Baruch College, City University of New York
CPA (Virginia State Board of Accounting)

Areas of Expertise:

Extensive experience as an expert witness in civil and criminal cases, in litigation support, in quality assurance reviews of CPA firms, and consulting on a variety of accounting and management issues. Areas of expertise include financial accounting and reporting, international finance, and attestation (auditing, etc.).

Professional Activities:

Professor Scott is the co-author of two books and numerous articles appearing in journals such as Accounting Review; Journal of Accountancy; and Best's Review.

He has served on the Fulbright Scholar Selection Committee and the editorial advisory boards of two professional journals and is a member of the board of directors of the Federation of Schools of Accounting. At the School of Commerce, he has served as director of Graduate Studies and area coordinator.

Selected Publications:

Lakeside Company: 13 Mini-Cases in the Life Cycle of an Audit, Prentice-Hall, 1994. 
"On-Campus Recruiting," Journal of Accountancy, January 1985 (with M. Lathan Jr. and E. Pavlock). 
"Interim Testing of Assets and Liabilities," CPA Journal, November 1984.
Auditing: A Systems Approach, Reston Publishing Co., 1982.