Preeti Choudhary Appointed to PCAOB Advisory Group

Preeti Choudhary, professor of accounting and Eller Fellow, has recently been appointed to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (PCAOB) Standards and Emerging Issues Advisory Group (SEIAG).

The PCAOB is a nonprofit corporation established by Congress to oversee the audits of public companies and broker-dealers registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Through this oversight, the PCAOB works to enhance transparency, accountability and trust in U.S. capital markets.

The SEIAG advises the PCAOB on existing and proposed auditing standards, potential new standards, and other matters of significance—such as emerging issues—that impact the PCAOB’s work to protect investors and promote the public interest in the preparation of informative, accurate and independent audit reports.

Choudhary will also continue as chair of the Emerging Issues Advisory Group, a position that underscores her leadership and expertise in addressing timely and complex matters affecting the auditing profession.

Her term in the advisory group will run through the end of 2026.

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.