Elizabeth Gordon

Associate Professor of Accounting, Temple University

Dr. Gordon 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.

EDUCATION: Ph.D., Columbia University 

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: (215) 204-6422
E-mail: egordon@temple.edu
Website

Publications with PhD Students and Alumni:

Gordon, Elizabeth A., Elaine Henry and Darius Palia, "Related Party Transactions and Corporate Governance", Advances in Financial Economics, September 2004—Lead article

Gordon, Elizabeth A., Elaine Henry and Darius Palia, "Determinants of Related Party Transactions and Their Impact on Firm Value", Working Paper, Rutgers University. Presented at AAA annual meeting in Orlando, 2004. http://ssrn.com/author=382711

Gordon, Elizabeth A., and Elaine Henry. "Related Party Transactions and Earnings Management". Working Paper. http://ssrn.com/abstract=612234.

Dissertations Supervised:

Name: DiSalvio, Joan
Graduation Date: 2011/May
Thesis Title: An Examination of a Firm's Use of a Short Term Succession Plan Using an Interim CEO to Facilitate CEO Turnover