Karen De Meyst

Assistant Professor

Accountancy

Profile

Academic Background

Ph.D. Business Economics (Specialization: Management Accounting), KU Leuven, 2017
M.Sc. Accountancy and Auditing, KU Leuven, 2013
M.A. Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, 2012
M.Sc. Management, KU Leuven,2011

Academic & Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Accountancy, Farmer School of Business, Miami University (January 2018 - Present)
Visiting Lecturer, Accountancy, Farmer School of Business, Miami University (August 2017 - December 2017)
Graduate Student, Accountancy, KU Leuven (2013 - 2017)

Recent Publications

1. Factors Affecting the Outcomes of Legal Claims against Auditors. (with Jordan Lowe, Mark Peecher, Jeffrey Pickerd, and Andrew Reffett) Current Issues in Auditing – Forthcoming
2. Six Strategies to Increase Learning in the Workplace. Financial Management Magazine – August 2020

Honors & Awards

First Place Award in the 2020 IMA Educational Case Journal Spring Short Case Writing Competition received for “Duralock: Budgeting for Decision-Making” (teaching case, together with Harshini Siriwardane)

Biography

Karen De Meyst is an Assistant Professor in Accountancy at Miami University where she teaches managerial accounting. Her research interests include incentive systems, management control systems, organizational reporting, budgeting, CSR and sustainability reporting. She mainly uses experiments as a research method. Dr. De Meyst holds her PhD in Business Economics (Specialization in Management Accounting) from KU Leuven in Belgium.