Eller Accounting Professor Featured in Bloomberg Tax and Wall Street Journal

Preeti Choudhary, professor of accounting and Eller Fellow in Eller College of Management, was recently featured in a Bloomberg Tax article discussing anticipated changes at the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB as President Trump begins his second term. 

The PCAOB, responsible for overseeing audits of public companies, is expected to undergo significant shifts in its agenda and priorities under the renewed administration.

Additionally, Choudhary was mentioned in a Wall Street Journal article examining the independence of boards overseeing public companies' accounting practices. 

The article highlights concerns about the PCAOB's autonomy compared to other regulatory bodies. Choudhary, who serves as a member of a PCAOB advisory group, noted, “This creates a huge difference in how the political influence plays out.”

Choudhary joined the Eller College of Management as associate professor in 2017. Her prior professional experience includes roles as a senior economic research fellow in the Office of Economic Risk and Analysis at the PCAOB, as an assistant professor at Georgetown University, as an IT auditor at Deloitte and Touche LLP in enterprise risk services and in internal audit at Graham Holdings Company. She is currently a member of the PCAOB Standards and Emerging Issues Advisory Group (SEIAG) and leader of the subcommittee on emerging issues. Her research interests include capital market effects of financial reporting, financial reporting reliability, materiality and audit quality. Her work has been published in many leading accounting journals and cited in regulatory rulemakings and comment letters. She is on the editorial board of The Accounting Review and the American Accounting Association Steering Committee. She earned her B.S. in commerce and M.S. in accounting from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. from Duke University.