Douglas F. Prawitt PhD., CPA

Doug earned his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona and is the LeRay McAllister/Deloitte Professor of Accountancy at BYU. His research and teaching in BYU’s graduate accounting and MBA programs focus on auditing and on professional judgment. Doug has published award-winning articles in Journal of Accountancy, Internal Auditor, and CPA Journal, and has coauthored two leading auditing textbooks. His research has been published in premier academic journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and others. Doug has won several research, teaching, and 'best research paper' awards, as well as BYU’s 2002 Merrill J. Bateman Student Choice Teaching Award, BYU’s 2006 Award for Distinction in Graduate Education, the Auditing Section’s 2014 Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award, the 2013 AAA/Deloitte Wildman Medal Award recognizing the publication over a five-year time span most likely to positively impact the public accounting profession, the 2016 BYU Marriott School Outstanding Faculty Award, and the AAA’s 2016 Outstanding Accounting Educator Award. Doug has chaired BYU’s equivalent of a faculty senate, as well as the BYU’s university-level promotion and tenure committee. He is active in the profession, having served a three-year term as a member of the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board, and is currently serving as a member of the COSO Board, which in 2013 released the first revision of its landmark 1992 Internal Control Integrated Framework. He has served as an expert witness in high-profile auditing cases and has consulted with a variety of professional services firms, large and small.