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Dr. Lawrence A. Gordon is the Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting and Information Assurance, and the Director of the Ph.D. Program at The Robert H. Smith School of Business. He is also an Affiliate Professor in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. Dr. Gordon earned his Ph.D. in Managerial Economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. An internationally known scholar in the area of managerial accounting, Dr. Gordon's research focuses on such issues as information security, corporate performance measures, cost management systems, and capital investments. He is the author of more than 85 articles, published in such journals as The Accounting Review, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Accounting Organizations and Society, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Journal of Computer Security, Decision Sciences, Omega, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Accounting and Business Research, Managerial and Decision Economics, Communications of the ACM, and Management Accounting Research. Dr. Gordon's current research emphasizes the importance of utilizing concepts from managerial accounting and economics within an information-based economy. Dr. Gordon also is the author of several books, including Managerial Accounting: Concepts and Empirical Evidence, Managing Cybersecurity Resources: A Cost-Benefit Analysis and Capital Budgeting: A Decision Support System Approach. In addition, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. In two authoritative studies, Dr. Gordon was cited as being among the world's most influential/productive accounting researchers.

An award-winning teacher, Dr. Gordon has been an invited speaker at numerous universities around the world, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Toronto, London Business School and London School of Economics. He also has served as a consultant to several private (e.g., IBM) and public (e.g., U.S. General Accounting Office, now the Government Accountability Office) organizations. Dr. Gordon's former Ph.D. students are currently distinguished faculty at such universities as Stanford University, University of Southern California, Ohio State University, Michigan State University, The College of William and Mary, National Taiwan University, and Naval Postgraduate School. His former M.B.A. students frequently call him on the "Management Accounting Hotline" (affectionately named by his students) to discuss issues confronting their organizations. Dr. Gordon also is an active member of various professional organizations, a frequent contributor to the popular press (e.g., The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Financial Times), and served as the President of the University of Maryland Faculty/Staff Club for over a decade.

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