Office: 325 RBC Phone: 610-758-4452 Fax: 610-758-6429 Email: jwp1@lehigh.edu Analyzing Accounting Information for Management and Business Solutions (masters program) Cost accounting Auditing Accounting information systems Financial accounting Intermediate accounting Lehigh Business and Economics Review seminar (for Martindale Center)

Department of Accounting:  Professor

Education
-  Cornell University, B.A.
-  Lehigh University, Ph.D.

Research Interests

• Managerial Accounting
• Auditing

Publications and Working Papers

• "Exploring PCAOB Auditing Standard 2: Audits of Internal Control," The CPA Journal (May 2005), pp. 22-27.
• "Does the 'Management Approach' Contribute to Segment Reporting Transparency?" (with James A. Largay ), Business Horizons (2005) 48, pp. 303-310.
• "Focusing Audit Testing on High Risk Software Modules: A Methodology and an Application" (with Susan A. Sherer), Journal of Information Systems, (Fall 1993), pp. 65-84.
• "Market Efficiency and the Legal Liability of Auditors" (with James A. Largay), The Accounting Review (October 1983), pp. 810-821.
• Peach Blossom Cologne Company: Short Audit Case, Fourth Edition, (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2006), 195 pages, plus Instructor's Manual, 103 pages.