Helen Brown-Liburd

Helen Brown-Liburd is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Continuous Auditing and Reporting Lab at Rutgers Business School. Her research focuses on auditors’ and investors’ judgment and decision-making and the impact of Big Data and analytics on the audit profession.  She has published in various journals, including Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, and Journal of Business Ethics. Her teaching experience includes Auditing, Accounting Information Systems, Audit Data Analytics, and Financial Accounting. Helen earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  

She has served as the 2020-2022 Secretary for the Auditing Section and the 2019-2020 President of the Diversity Section. Helen currently serves as an Editor for Accounting Horizons, the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, and is on the editorial board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. She was a member of the PCAOB’s Data and Technology Task Force and was recently appointed to the PCAOB’s Technology Innovation Alliance Working Group. Helen also serves as an At-Large Member of the AICPA Council. She is a CPA (inactive) with over sixteen years of experience in such diverse areas as business process reengineering, auditing, and financial reporting, and analysis.