Charles Davis

Department Chair - Accounting & Business Law
Department Chair, Walter Plumhoff Professor of Accounting - Accounting & Business Law

Contact Information

Email:	Charles_Davis@baylor.edu
Homepage:	http://business.baylor.edu/Charles_davis/index.htm
Campus Phone:	(254) 710-6138
Fax:	(254) 710-1067
Mailing Address:	One Bear Place #98002 Waco, TX  76798-8002
Office Location:	Accounting Suite 120, Room 129

Educational Background

• Ph D - Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991
• MBA - Accounting, University of Richmond, 1989
• BBA - Accounting, College of William and Mary, 1981

Work Experience

• Walter Plumhoff Professor of Accounting, Baylor University (August 2004 - Present)
• Associate Professor, Baylor University (August 1997 - August 2004)
• Assistant Professor, Baylor University (August 1991 - July 1997)
• Graduate Instructor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (January 1988 - May 1991)
• Financial Systems Accountant, Investors Savings Bank (January 1987 - August 1987)
• Staff Consultant, Coopers & Lybrand (January 1985 - December 1986)
• Financial Systems Analyst, Reynolds Metals Company (October 1983 - December 1985)
• Assistant Cost Accountant, Reynolds Metals Company (June 1983 - October 1983)
• Accounting Trainee, Reynolds Metals Company (July 1981 - June 1983)

Consulting

• Academic, Tarleton State University Department of Accounting, Stephenville, TX (April 10, 2007 - April 30, 2007)

Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Service Award, American Accounting Association ABO Section (October 2005)
• Certificate of Merit, Institute of Management Accountants (2004)
• Certificate of Merit, Institute of Management Accountants (2003)
• Lybrand Gold Medal, Institute of Management Accountants (1999)
• Outstanding Dissertation Award, American Accounting Association Auditing Section (August 1992)
• New Faculty Consortium Fellow, American Accounting Association (February 1992)
• Doctoral Consortium Fellow, American Accounting Association (June 1990)
• Maurice W. Lee Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Business (April 27, 1990)
• Beta Gamma Sigma, College of William and Mary (April 1981)

Licensures and Certifications

• CPA, Virginia State Board of Accountancy (July 24, 1984 - Present)

Professional Memberships

• ABO Section President (2001-2002), Web Administrator Committee Chair (1999-2007), American Accounting Association
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Information Systems Audit & Control Association
• Institute of Management Accountants
• Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants

Publications

Discipline-based Scholarship

"Quality Review, Continuing Professional Education, Experience and Substandard Performance: An Empirical Study," Accounting Horizons, Vol. 12, No. 4, (December 1998), pp. 340-362 (coauthors: Charles W. Thomas, Samuel L. Seaman).

"Audit Task and Audit Methodology as Determinants of Auditors' Elicitation of Alternative Knowledge Organization Structures," Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, Vol. 1, (1998), pp. 101-121 (coauthors: E. B. Davis).

"Perceived Risks and Threats to Accounting Information Systems," The Review of Accounting Information Systems, Vol. 1, No. 4, (October 1997), pp. 13-24.

"An Investigation of the Impact of Market Discipline on Individuals' Price Revisions," Advances in Accounting, Vol. 15, (1997), pp. 125-168 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis, Daniel P. Murphy).

"Experience and the Organization of Auditors' Knowledge," Managerial Auditing Journal, Vol. 12, No. 8 & 9, (1997), pp. 411-422.

"Learning from Experience in Performing Analytical Procedures," Training Research Journal, Vol. 3, (1997), pp. 59-79 (coauthors: Edward Blocher, Rien Bouwman).

"Information Load and Consistency of Decisions," Psychological Reports, Vol. 79, (1996), pp. 279-288 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis).

"Presentation Format and Complexity Effects on Judgment and Recall in a Risk Analysis Task," Accounting Communication and Monitoring, S. Moriarity (eds.), Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma Center for Economic and Management Research, 1991, pp. 138-157 (coauthors: Ed Blocher).

Contributions to Practice

"To Roth or Not To Roth?," Journal of Accountancy, Vol. 203, No. 2, February, (February 2007), pp. 64-67 (coauthors: Delton L. Chesser, Timothy Thomasson).

"How to Create an Activity Management Program That Lasts," Strategic Finance, Vol. LXXXV, No. 8, February, (February 2004), pp. 40-45 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis, Brad Anderson, Mick Twomey).

"Web-based Reporting: A View for the Future," Strategic Finance, Vol. LXXXV, No. 3, (September 2003), pp. 44-49 (coauthors: Whit P. Keuer, Curtis Clements).

"Web-based Reporting," The CPA Journal, Vol. LXX11, No. 11, November, (November 2002), pp. 28-34 (coauthors: Whit P. Keuer, Curtis Clements).

"Electronic Evidence," AICPA Top Ten Technologies Website, January 1, 2001.

"Electronically-based Business and Financial Reporting," AICPA Top Ten Technologies Website, January 1, 2001.

"Outsourcing the Procurement-Through-Payables Process," Management Accounting, Vol. LXXX, No. 1, July, (July 1998), pp. 38-44 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis, L. A. Moore).

"The Internet," Management of an Accounting Practice Handbook, New York: AICPA, 1998, pp. 39-50.

"An Assessment of Accounting Information System Security," The CPA Journal, Vol. LXVII, No. 3, (March 1997), pp. 28-34.

"Computer Crime 101: What Every Accountant Should Know," Today's CPA, (July 1996), pp. 38-41 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis).

"Perceived Threats to Today's Accounting Information Systems: A Survey of CISAs," IS Audit & Control Journal, No. III, (1996), pp. 38-41.

"Surfing the Internet: A CPA's Guide to Riding the On-line Wave," Today's CPA, (January 1996), pp. 38-40 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis).

"Computing the Future of Client/Server Systems," Today's CPA, (July 1995), pp. 26-30 (coauthors: Mark Dunkel).

Learning and Pedagogical Research

"Garden Patch Foods: Analyzing the Purchase-Through-Payables Process," Issues in Accounting Education, Vol. 18, No. 4, (November 2003), pp. 369-383 (coauthors: E. B. Davis).

"Online Multimedia Accounting Review," (2000).

"Tearing Down the Stovepipes: One Program's Experience in Designing an Integrated Accounting Core Curriculum," Advances in Accounting Education, Vol. 3, (2000), pp. 125-150 (coauthors: Charles W. Thomas, Jane Baldwin, Delton Chesser, D Hollingsworth, Michael A. Robinson).

"Delectable Deliveries, Inc.," The Journal of Accounting Case Research, Vol. 5, No. 1, (1999), pp. 32-37 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis, Brad Copeland).

"Accounting is Like a Box of Chocolates," The Journal of Accounting Education, Vol. 15, No. 3, (1997), pp. 307-318.

Presentations and Proceedings

"Backpack to Briefcase: The transformation from student to accounting professional," presented at the American Accounting Association 2009 Meeting, New York City, August 2009 (coauthors: Gia Chevis, R. K. Hurtt).

"Successfully Transitioning into the Department Chair’s Role: Avoiding the Hidden Landmines," presented at the APLG New Department Chair Workshop, Charleston, SC, February 2008.

"Perceived Risks and Threats to Accounting Information Systems," presented at the AAA Annual Meeting Research Forum, August 1996.

"An Investigation of the Impact of Market Discipline on Individuals' Price Revision," presented at the AAA Research Forum, August 1995 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis, Daniel P. Murphy).

"Experience and the Organization of Auditors' Knowledge of Financial Statement Errors," presented at the AAA Annual Meeting Research Forum, August 1992.

Discipline-based Scholarship

"Experiential Development of and Task-Specific Preference for Auditors' Alternative Knowledge Structures," presented at the Texas Tech University Accounting Colloquium, Lubbock, TX, January 1997.

"Information Load and Decision Consistency," presented at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Information Resources Management Association, Atlanta, GA, May 1995.

"Presentation Format, Information Load and Time Pressure Effects on the Consistent Application of a Decision Rule," Proceedings of the AAA Southwest Region Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 1993.

"Experience and Expertise in Analytical Review: Will the Real Experts Please Identify Themselves," presented at the AAA Annual Meeting, August 1992 (coauthors: Ed Blocher, Marinus J. Bouwman).

"Presentation Format and Complexity Effects on Judgment and Recall in a Risk Analysis Task," presented at the Oklahoma Center for Research in Accounting Communication and Monitoring Conference, Norman, OK, October 1990 (coauthors: Ed Blocher).

Contributions to Practice

"Surfing the Internet: A CPA's Guide to Riding the On-line Wave," presented at the Central Texas Chapter of TSCPA, Waco, TX, October 1997.

Learning and Pedagogical Research

"Tips on Becoming a Department Chair," presented at the AAA 2008 Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August 2008.

"Using Blackboard to Facilitate Guest Speakers," presented at the American Accounting Association Effective Learning Strategies Forum, Honolulu, August 2003.

"AICPA Core Competency Framework," presented at the Texas Society of CPAs Annual Seminar on Accounting Education, Houston, TX, October 2000.

"Accounting is Like A Box of Chocolates: A Lesson in Cost Behavior," presented at the AAA Management Accounting Conference, San Antonio, TX, November 1996.

"Auditing and Accounting Information Systems: A Perfect Marriage," presented at the AAA Southwest Region Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 1996 (coauthors: Bill Thomas).

"My Computer's On, Now What Do I Do?," presented at the AICPA Educators Mini-Conference, Tampa, FL, November 1995.

"Technology in the Accounting Classroom," presented at the AICPA Faculty Summer Seminar, San Antonio, TX, May 1995.