Mark Peecher

Associate Dean of Faculty, College of Business
Deloitte Professor of Accountancy, College of Business
Professor, College of Law (by courtesy)

About

Mark E. Peecher, CPA, is a professor of accountancy and a Deloitte Teaching Fellow at the University of Illinois, specializing in behavioral auditing and accounting research. He holds a bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in accountancy from Illinois. Prior to returning to his alma mater, he was a faculty member at the University of Washington. An active member in the AAA’s Audit Section, Mark currently serves as the Audit Section’s past president.

Professor Peecher’s business-press writings about auditing have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, and his scholarly writings have appeared in AccountingOrganizations & SocietyAuditing: A Journal of Practice & TheoryContemporary Accounting ResearchInternational Journal of AuditingJournal of Accounting ResearchOrganizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and The Accounting Review. He has presented his research at numerous conferences, consortia, and universities, and he has served on the editorial boards at Auditing: A Journal of Practice & TheoryThe Accounting Review, and Issues in Accounting Education. Mark enjoys teaching both undergraduate courses and doctoral seminars related to auditing. He particularly likes helping to mentor doctoral students, three of whom have won outstanding doctoral dissertation awards.

College of Business bio

Education

BS, MAS, PhD University of Illinois

Areas of Expertise

Accounting