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Jesse Dillard, Ph.D., Retzlaff Chair in Accounting |
Dr. Jesse Dillard received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina, and his Master of Science Management and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management from Clemson University. Dr. Dillard joins the faculty of the School of Business as a Professor of Accounting from the University of Central Florida where he served as the KPMG Professor of Accounting. His research, which includes more than 100 published articles, books and reviews, focuses on behavioral analysis of accounting practices, with specific emphasis on public interest responsibilities, ethical structures, and information systems in accounting. Dr. Dillard’s research in these areas has been published in leading academic journals such as the Accounting, Organizations, and Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Journal of Information Systems. Dr. Dillard is also the founding editor of Accounting and the Public Interest. Dr. Dillard is the second recipient of the Retzlaff Chair in Accounting, which was endowed through a generous donation from the Estate of Herbert Retzlaff to support faculty in the area of Accounting.
Dr. Dillard’s most recent work with in the area of corporate sustainability studies the effectiveness of using information systems to provide a framework for managers that includes environmental issues into decision making criteria. Computer based accounting information systems provide the information needed to manage organizational activities. Environmental risks and environmental stewardship are concepts receiving increased attention as progressively managed firms attempt to articulate and manage business risk and environmental risk. Accounting information systems must respond to these emerging environmentally related requirements in order to adequately support management’s information needs. The purpose of the study is to identify the information sets associated with alternative strategies used by management for framing and responding to environmental issues over a range of decision impact horizons. The matrix provides a tool useful in identifying the information to be collected, stored, analyzed, and reported in developing environmentally attuned accounting information systems.
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