Charles Davis
Charles E. Davis is an associate professor of accounting and the director of Graduate Accounting Programs at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business. He teaches courses on accounting information systems, information systems auditing, and managerial accounting at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He conducts research in the areas of behavioral accounting and accounting information systems. His work has been published in both practitioner and academic accounting journals such as Accounting Horizons, Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, The CPA Journal, Today's CPA, and Management Accounting.
Dr. Davis is active in several professional organizations. His involvement in the American Accounting Association includes serving as Webmaster for the Accounting, Behavior, and Organizations section and as a member of the Information Systems (IS) section's Education Issues Committee. He has also been active with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA); he currently chairs the Carey Scholarship Task Force and the Distinguished Accounting Educator Award Task Force, and he is a member of the Pre-certification Education Executive Committee, the Core Competency Curriculum Evaluation Task Force, and the Group of 100. Dr. Davis's past AICPA involvement includes serving as chair of the Accounting Careers Subcommittee, as a member of the Curriculum and Instruction in Accounting Education Subcommittee, and as a member of the Accounting Education Executive Committee Integration of Technology Into the Learning Experience Task Force.
Prior to joining the faculty at Baylor University in July 1991, Dr. Davis worked in as a financial systems analyst on the controller's staff at Reynolds Metals Company and as a management consultant for Coopers and Lybrand, both in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Davis holds a BBA in accounting from the College of William and Mary, an MBA from the University of Richmond, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.