Kim Walker

Education

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison

Specialization  

Audit

Biography

Kimberly Walker received a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and also a B.S and M.S. degree from North Carolina State University. She is a licensed CPA in North Carolina with over six years of professional experience as an external and internal auditor. Before entering into a doctoral program, she worked for Carlisle as an IT Audit Manager in North Carolina, where she worked primarily on operational and compliance audits.

Kimberly's research interest focuses on factors that influence auditors' judgment and decision making related to financial reporting. Specifically, she is interested in how audit technologies, such as audit data analytics, impact auditors' judgments, and audit quality. Her honors and awards include AICPA Doctoral Fellowship and recipient of the best paper award at the 2018 AAA Diversity Section meeting.