Stacey Whitecotton

Professor Stacey Whitecotton is an associate professor in the School of Accountancy in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She previously served as the Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, where she managed W. P. Carey’s diverse portfolio of graduate programs, including their top-ranked MBA program.

Professor Whitecotton teaches managerial accounting and ethics for professional accountants.  She has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level.   She is also the lead author of a Managerial Accounting textbook that is used by students at ASU and other universities around the country.  

Professor Whitecotton’s research interests center around the use of organizational incentives and decision aids to improve the decision-making behavior of financial analysts, managers, and auditors. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and The Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.