Zoe Vonna Palmrose

Education

• PhD University of Washington (1982)
• MBA University of Washington (1978)
• BS Oregon State University (1968)

Academic Expertise

• audit
• financial accounting

Current Research

• Public policy issues related to the quality of financial reporting and auditing, including restatements, materiality, audit litigation, the pricing of audit services, and non-audit services.

Positions Held

• At the University of Washington since 2011
• Accounting Circle Professor Emerita of Accounting, University of Southern California, 2011-Present
• Deputy Chief Accountant for Professional Practice in the Office of the Chief Accountant, Securities and Exchange Commission, 2006-2008
• Professor (and Associate Professor), University of Southern California, 1989-2011
• Assistant Professor, University of California at Berkeley, 1982-1989

Honors and Awards

• USC Accounting Circle Professor of Accounting (2010-2011)
• National PricewaterhouseCoopers Fellow (2010-2011)
• Distinguished Visiting Faculty at American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium
• (1993, 1995, 2003, 2010)
• USC Parents Association Teaching and Mentoring Nominee (2009)
• American Accounting Association Presidential Scholar (2008)
• Named one of Treasury and Risk Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in Finance
• (2008)
• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Law and Policy Award, Presented to the
• Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Team (2007)
• Dean’s Award for Research Excellence, USC Marshall School of Business (2006)
• Named one of Business Finance Magazine’s Influencers in 2004, 2005, and 2007
• American Accounting Association/Deloitte Wildman Medal (2003 and 2006)
• American Accounting Association Auditing Section Distinguished Service Award (2003)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditing Professor (1998-2006, 2008-2010)
• Price Waterhouse Auditing Professor (1996-1998)
• Price Waterhouse Faculty Fellow (1990-1996)
• California Society of CPAs Accounting Faculty Fellow Award (1988)
• American Accounting Association Competitive Manuscript Award (1987)

Academic Service

• Director UW Masters in Professional Accounting, Audit and Assurance Program (since 2012)
• Deloitte Audit Quality Advisory Council (since 2013)
• Center for Audit Quality Research Advisory Board (since 2008)
• SEC Historical Society Museum Committee (2008-2011)
• U.S. Department of the Treasury Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession,
• SEC Observer (2007-2008)
• Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Standing Advisory Group,
• SEC Observer (2006-2008)
• American Accounting Association Executive Committee (2002-2004)
• American Accounting Association Vice President—Research (2002-2004)
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Auditing Standards Board Fraud Task
• Force that developed and drafted SAS No. 99, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit (2000-2002)
• Public Oversight Board Panel on Audit Effectiveness (1998-2000)
• American Accounting Association Auditing Section, Secretary-Treasurer (1989-1991)
• American Accounting Association Auditing Section, Research Director and Chair of the
• Research Committee (1989-1991)
• Research Consultant to the National Commission on Fraudulent Financial Reporting
• (Treadway Commission) (1986)
• Editoral Board Member of The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Public
• Policy, Accounting Horizons, Auditing: "A Journal of Practice & Theory," and Issues in Accounting Education (for various terms during 1983-2014)