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.
"Redefining Materiality: An Exercise to Restore Ethical Financial Reporting." with Govind Iyer. Advances in Accounting.
Lowe, D. J., P. M. Reckers and S. M. Whitecotton. "The Effects of Decision-Aid Use and Reliability on Jurors' Evaluations of Auditor Liability." The Accounting Review. (2002) 77: 185-202.
Kaplan, S.E., H. R. Reneau and S.M. Whitecotton. "The Effects of Predictive Ability Information, Locus of Control, and Decision Maker Involvement on Decision Aid Reliance." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (2001) 14: 35-50.
Research Activity
Smith-Daniels,Vicki Lynn*, David,Julia Smith, Schneller,Eugene S, Whitecotton,Stacey M. Healthcare Supply Chain Benchmarking and Performance Improvement Metrics. AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION(1/1/2007 - 12/31/2010).
