The School of Accountancy & MIS promoted two faculty members to full professors. Cindy Durtschi and Molly Mercer earned these top tenured faculty
positions at DePaul in July 2018.
Durtschi is an award-winning teacher and researcher in financial and forensic accounting. She received the 2006 American Accounting Association
Innovation in Audit Education Award for her published case in forensic accounting, “The Tallahassee Bean Counters: A Problem-Based Learning Case in Forensic Auditing.” She is the faculty director of the Master of Science in Audit and Advisory Services program at DePaul. Durtschi is the former president of the Forensic and Investigative Accounting section of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and currently serves as chair of the AAA Council. She continues to publish forensic accounting cases that are used in classrooms around the world.
Mercer is an award-winning scholar whose research has been published in academic journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, Management Science, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. Her research explores psychological influences on the behaviors of various parties in the financial reporting process. She teaches financial accounting to undergraduate and graduate students. Prior to joining DePaul in 2009, she served on the faculties of Emory University and Arizona State University. Mercer has received several awards for teaching excellence at DePaul, including this year’s Quality of Instruction Council Excellence in Teaching Award.
