Leslie Hodder Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA

Leslie D. Hodder is the David Thompson Chair of Accounting and at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. She received her B.B.A and M.B.A./M. Acc from the University of New Mexico and her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to obtaining her Ph.D., Professor Hodder was Chief Financial Officer of a publicly traded commercial bank holding company in southern California. Professor Hodder was on faculty at Stanford University before joining the Indiana University faculty in 2003. Her research has appeared in top accounting journals, including The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting

Research, and Accounting Organizations and Society. She is the past winner of the American Accounting Association’s Wildman Award for research relevant to practice, is a past Editor at The Accounting Review, and previously served as Finance Director on the Executive Board of the American Accounting Association. She currently serves on the International Financial Reporting Standards Advisory Council. Professor Hodder teaches financial-accounting-related topics in the undergraduate, master, and doctoral programs. Over her teaching career, she has developed or co-developed six courses in financial accounting, including Intermediate Financial Accounting I and II, Applied Audit and Accounting Research, Accounting Theory, and Detecting Earnings Management with a focus on data analytics. Currently, Professor Hodder is teaching a variety of financial accounting courses, including

an online Intermediate Accounting course for working adults.