Ann O'Brien

Dr. O’Brien, a Distinguished Lecturer, teaches a class on strategic business system processes and AIS/EIS technology tools and developments. She designed and teaches accounting data analytics curricula. She also has taught a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate accounting and executive short courses covering fraud examination, financial, managerial, cost, intermediate, and health care accounting topics. Previous lecturer at the University of Iowa and the University of Texas at Austin. At Madison, she has been responsible for the internship course and acting director/associate director and adviser for students in the Professional Program in Accounting. She served as Faculty Adviser for Beta Alpha Psi for over 7 years and various committees including the Dean’s Assessment Task Force. Other activities have included coordinator of the intermediate financial and managerial accounting courses. Professionally, Dr. O’Brien currently serves as the Outgoing President of the AIS Educators Association. She has performed audit, tax, consulting, and litigation support services as a CPA and CFE, and has also provided management expertise to co-ops and non-profit organizations. Before academia, she served as the office manager for United States Senator Dick Clark and Senator Lloyd Bentsen in Washington, DC. She earned a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin Madison, an MBA from the University of Texas Austin, and a BSBA in International Business from Georgetown University.

Presentations

AAA Conference on Teaching and Learning (2018) Using Learning Sciences to Tackle Common Teaching Challenges

AAA Accounting is Big Data Conference (2017) Bridging the Gap-Real World Tools for the Classroom

AAA Conference on Teaching and Learning (2017) Tackling Common Teaching Challenges by Applying a Learning Sciences Design Framework

American Accounting Association -IS Mid-Year Meeting (2017) Cyberattacks, Mitigation, and Regulation: An Active Learning Instructional Resource

AAA Annual Meeting Effective Learning Strategies (2015) Bottom Up or Top Down? Contrasting, yet Complimentary Approaches for Teaching Database Design

AAA Annual Meeting Effective Learning Strategies (2012) CyberProtect; Learning about System Security

AAA Annual Meeting (2011) Teaching Information Systems with a Conceptual Foundation

AAA Annual Meeting Effective Learning Strategies (2011) A Quick Look at IFRS and IT; Information System Risks and Controls in IFRS Implementation

AAA Conference on Teaching and Learning (2011) “Northwind” Project – Query and Manipulate Data for Financial Reporting

AAA Annual Meeting (2010) Effective Learning Strategies ‘Northwind’

AIS Educators Annual Meeting (2010) Excel Teaching Strategies & Assessment

AIS Educators Annual Meeting (2010) REA Overview, Primer, & Classroom Use