Sarah E. Stein

Education

Ph.D.  University of Missouri

Specialization

Auditing and Corporate Governance

Biography

Dr. Sarah Stein is a Professor and the Deloitte Foundation Faculty Fellow in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems. She joined the Pamplin College of Business in the fall of 2013 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Missouri. She also holds a B.S. and M.S. in Accounting from Truman State University and is licensed as a CPA in the state of Colorado. In 2011, Dr. Stein was a recipient of the Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship. Prior to entering academia, she worked as an audit manager at Deloitte in Denver, Colorado.

Dr. Stein’s research uses both archival and qualitative methods to examine auditing and corporate governance issues in areas such as human capital, associations and networks, and complex estimates. Her work is published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Review of Accounting Studies, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Accounting Horizons, and Current Issues in Auditing. Dr. Stein’s coauthored research on audit committees’ evolving responsibilities received the 2026 AAA/Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award. She also serves as an Editor at Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and sits on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research. 

Dr. Stein teaches the introductory Ph.D. seminar and the graduate auditing course and has published audit-related case studies in Issues in Accounting Education and Current Issues in Auditing. Her innovative data visualization audit case is the recipient of the 2019 Best Paper Award in Issues in Accounting Education and the 2020 Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award.