• Senior Lecturer and Vice Chair, Accounting
  • M.S. in Business Education, Southern New Hampshire University
  • Ph.D. in Accountancy, Bentley University
  • BS in Accounting, Murray State University
  • Graduate Certificate in Forensic Accounting, Southern New Hampshire University

Professional Memberships

  • Association for Information Systems 2018-11-01 - Present
  • American Accounting Association 2009-06-01 - Present
  • Association of Certified Fraud Examiners 2007-01-01 - Present
  • America's SAP User Group 1997-01-01 - Present
  • ISACA 1995-01-01 - Present
  • The Institute of Internal Auditors 1992-06-01 - Present
  • Awards and Honors

  • Honorable Mention - Outstanding Education Case, American Accounting Association Accounting Information Systems Midyear Meeting
  • EY Academic Resource Center Curriculum Innovation Award, Ernst & Young Foundation
  • Faculty Affairs Committee Grant, Bentley University
  • Best AIS Education Paper - Midyear Meeting, American Accounting Association AIS Section
  • 2020 Innovation in Teaching Award, Bentley University
  • John Beveridge Award, ISACA New England
  • George Krull/Grant Thornton Teaching Innovation Award, Grant Thornton and Federation of Schools of Accountancy
  • Margit F. and Hanns Martin Schoenfeld Scholarship, Academy of Accounting Historians Section of the American Accounting Association
  • Faculty Affairs Committee Grant, Bentley University
  • Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

    Journal Articles


  • Betti, N., DeSimone, S., Gray, J., Sarens, G. (2023). The impacts of the use of data analytics and the performance of consulting activities on perceived internal audit quality. Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change (Forthcoming)
  • Gray, J., Lee, L. (2023). Reuse and Recycle: Infusing Practice-Driven Cases with New Life through New Technologies. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, (20) 1 269-288.
  • Boss, S. R., Gray, J., Janvrin, D. (2022). Accountants, Cybersecurity isn't just for 'Techies': Incorporating Cybersecurity into the Accounting Curriculum. Issues in Accounting Education, (37) 3 73-89.
  • Boss, S. R., Gray, J., Sarkar, S. (2021). Pedagogical Practices of Accounting Departments Addressing AACSB Technology Requirements. Issues In Accounting Education, (36) 4 59-85.
  • Fedorowicz, J., Gray, J. (2021). The MSA is Dead. Long Live the MSA(A)!. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, (18) 2 209-219.
  • Sumantra, S., Gray, J., Boss, S. R., Daly, E. (2021). Developing Institutional Skills for Addressing Big Data: Experiences in Implementation of AACSB Standard 5. Journal of Accounting Education
  • Boss, S. R., Gray, J., Janvrin, D. Be an Expert: Examining High Profile Cybersecurity Breaches. Issues in Accounting Education (Forthcoming)
  • Gray, J., Boss, S. R. Hybrid Professions: The Case of Internal Auditors. Journal of Information Systems (In Progress)
  • Other Scholarly Work


  • Poncin, I. (2020). The Effect of the use of Data Analytics and the Performance of Consulting Activities on Perceived Internal Audit Quality. GAMOD-EIASM Conference on Governance and Management of Digitalization (Link) (In Progress).
  • Presentations


  • Gray, J., Janvrin, D. (2024). “Preparing to Work with Generative AI: Short Instructional Cases” Presented at the AAA AIS/SET Midyear Atlanta
  • Gray, J. (2024). “Best Practices for Student Engagement” Presented at the AAA AIS New Scholar Consortium Atlanta, GA
  • Gray, J. (2023). Presented at the Bentley University Cybersecurity & AI
  • Gray, J., Wood, D., Shimamoto, D. (2023). “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Accounting” Presented at the AAA AAA Annual Meeting Denver
  • Gray, J. (2023). “Applying Alteryx to the Classroom: Best Practices from Faculty” Presented at the Alteryx Alteryx Inspire Educator's Conference Las Vegas, NV
  • Gray, J., Church, K., Glazerman, E. (2023). “Course and Programming Revisioning” Presented at the AAA AIS Bootcamp Boston
  • Gray, J., Lee, L. (2023). “Reuse and Recycle: Alteryx in Data Input, Cleansing and Analysis” Presented at the American Accounting Association AIS Bootcamp Boston
  • Boss, S. R., Gray, J., Janvrin, D. (2022). “Accountants, Cybersecurity isn‚Äôt just for ‚ÄòTechies‚Äô: Incorporating Cybersecurity into the Accounting Curriculum” Presented at the American Accounting Association AAA weARE Webinar
  • Gray, J., Boss, S. R., Janvrin, D. (2022). “How Would You Respond to High Profile Cybersecurity Breaches? Examining the Capital One, Equifax, and Target Frauds” Presented at the American Accounting Association AIS Bootcamp 2022 Chicago, IL
  • Gray, J., Lee, L. (2022). “Reuse and Recycle” Presented at the American Accounting Association Intensive Data and Analytics Conference Orlando, FL
  • Gray, J., Janvrin, D., Lee, L. (2022). “Get Ready for Your Classes” Presented at the AIS Section of American Accounting Association AIS New Scholar Consortium Orlando, FL
  • Gray, J. (2021). “Academic Discussant Presentation: An Analysis of Using Data Exhaust for Predictive Audit Analytics” Presented at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting
  • Church, K., Dunn, C., Gray, J., Schmidt, P. (2021). “Augmented Analytics of Enterprise Data: Process Mining in the Accounting Classroom” Presented at the AIS Educators Association AIS Educator Conference
  • Church, K., Dunn, C., Gray, J., Schmidt, P., Finkel, B. (2021). “Process Mining: Do Firms Do what they Think they Do?” Presented at the American Accounting Association Accounting Information Systems Bootcamp
  • Gray, J., Aleman, T. (2021). “Customizing Analytics Cases for Use in YOUR Class” Presented at the American Accounting Association Accounting Information Systems Bootcamp
  • Boss, S., Gray, J., Janvrin, D. (2021). “How Would You Respond to High Profile Cybersecurity Breaches? Evaluating the Capital One, Equifax, and Target Attacks” Presented at the American Accounting Association AIS/SET Midyear
  • Gray, J. (2020). “Using Ethical Dilemmas to Deliver Value to Your Stakeholders” Presented at the The Institute of Internal Auditors 2020 IIA International Conference Virtual
  • Betti, N., DeSimone, S., Gray, J., Poncin, I. (2020). “The Effect of the use of Data Analytics and the Performance of Consulting Activities on Perceived Internal Audit Quality” Presented at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management Workshop on Governance and Management of Digitilization
  • Boss, S. R., Gray, J., Janvrin, D. (2020). “How Would You Respond to High Profile Cybersecurity Breaches? Examining the Capital One, Equifax, and Target Frauds” Presented at the Brigham Young University BYU Accounting Research Symposium Provo, UT
  • Boss, S. R., Gray, J., Janvrin, D. (2020). “Accountants, Cybersecurity isn‚Äôt just for ‚ÄòTechies‚Äô: Incorporating Cybersecurity into the Accounting Curriculum” Presented at the Association for Information Systems America's Conference on Information Systems
  • Boss, S. R., Gray, J., Janvrin, D. (2020). “Accountants, Cybersecurity isn't just for 'Techies:' Incorporating Cybersecurity into the Accounting Curriculum” Presented at the American Accounting Association American Accounting Association Annual Meeting
  • Gray, J. (2020). “Academic Discussant Presentation: Investigating Accountants' Resistance to Move Beyond Excel and Adopt New Data Analytics Technology” Presented at the American Accounting Association Accounting Information Systems Mid-Year
  • Gray, J. (2019). “Academic Discussant Presentation: Talk Too Much? The Attribution of Cybersecurity Disclosures on Investment Decisions” Presented at the University of Waterloo Centre for Information Integrity and Information Assurance UW CISA Symposium Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Gray, J. (2019). “Research Proposal: The Integrated Information Technology Auditor: No Longer Optional?” Presented at the Internal Audit Foundation Sawyer's Educators' Symposium Anaheim, CA
  • Gray, J., Green, J. (2019). “Business Process and Cybersecurity” Presented at the American Accounting Association - AIS Section AIS Bootcamp - Cybersecurity Atlanta, GA
  • Gray, J., Boss, S. R., Abdolmohammadi, M. J., Sarens, G. (2019). “Correlates of Internal Audit‚Äôs Information Technology Audit Strategy” Presented at the European Academic Conference on Internal Audit and Corporate Governance Paris, France
  • Sumantra, S., Gray, J., Boss, S. R., Daly, E. (2018). “Teaching Analytics in AIS ‚Äì the buzzword” Presented at the Association for Information Systems, SIGASYS International Conference on Information Systems 2018 Pre-Conference Sessions San Francisco, CA
  • Gray, J. (2018). Presented at the Bentley Teaching and Learning Council Academic Integrity
  • Gray, J. (2018). “Insights from New Graduates” Presented at the AIS Bootcamp - Incorporating Data Analytics into the Accounting Curriculum PwC Minneapolis, MN
  • Gray, J. (2018). “Tablets, Student Laptops, SmartBoards, Discussion Boards, Camtasia, Quiz Apps, YouTube: So Many Options, So Little Time” Presented at the Bentley University Innovations in Teaching Showcase Bentley University
  • Gray, J., Abdolmohammadi, M. J., Boss, S. R., Sarens, G. (2018). “Hybrid Professions: The Case of Internal Auditors” Presented at the European Academic Conference on Internal Audit and Corporate Governance Parthenope University of Naples
  • Gray, J., Boss, S. R. (2018). “Hybrid Professions: The Case of Internal Auditors” Presented at the Bentley University Scholarly Activities Bentley University
  • Gray, J., Boss, S. R. (2017). “Hybrid Professions: The Case of Internal Auditors” Presented at the Bentley University 2017 Research Colloquium: The Future of Work Waltham, MA
  • Gray, J. (2017). “Microlearning Videos to Reinforce Classroom Content” Presented at the American Accounting Association Effective Learning Strategies San Diego, CA
  • Gray, J., Abdolmohammadi, M. J., Boss, S. R., Sarens, G. (2017). “The Integrated Information Technology Audit in Internal Audit: Correlates of Internal Audit‚Äôs IT/ICT Strategy” Presented at the American Accounting Association AIS/SET Joint Midyear Conference Orlando, FL
  • Service

    Service: Department


  • Course Coordinator for Excel Certification Microcredentials 8/1/23 - Present
  • Mentor (Faculty) for PhD Student (teaching shadow) 1/1/23 - Present
  • Committee Member for Accounting Department Curriculum Committee 9/1/22 - Present
  • Curriculum Coordination and Support for KPMG MADA Coordination 1/1/22 - Present
  • Vice Chair for Department of Accounting 7/1/20 - Present
  • Committee Member for Auditing/AIS Curriculum Steering Committee 9/1/18 - Present
  • Course Coordinator for Internal Audit Education Partnership (IAEP) 7/1/18 - Present
  • Committee Member for Assurance of Learning Advisory Board 1/1/21 - 12/31/22
  • Committee Member for GB112/212 Steering Commitee 1/1/21 - 12/31/21
  • Committee Member for MSA Design and Implementation Task Force 1/1/20 - 12/31/21
  • Coordination of Faculty Pilot Course Proposals for Curriculum Update Coordinator 1/1/20 - 6/30/20
  • Committee Member for MS in Accounting Analytics 2/1/17 - 12/31/19
  • Committee Member for Auditing/AIS Curriculum Steering Committee 10/1/16 - 9/1/18
  • Committee Member for Lecturer/SAP Specialist Faculty Search Committee 6/1/18 - 8/31/18
  • Course Coordinator for GB 112 7/1/17 - 6/30/18
  • Committee Member for GB112/GB212 Course Development 11/1/16 - 6/30/18
  • Service: Public


  • Task Force Member for Internal Audit Task Force - School Committee - Boston Public Schools 10/1/18 - Present
  • Committee Member for UpReach Therapeutic Equestrian Center, Inc. 9/1/05 - Present
  • STEM Signing Day Mentor for Project Exploration 6/1/21 - 12/31/21
  • Committee Member for Skating Club of Boston/US Figure Skating 3/27/16 - 3/31/16
  • Service: Professional


  • Committee Member for Alteryx Faculty Advisory Commitee 9/1/23 - Present
  • Committee Member for Issues in Accounting Education Steering Committee 9/1/22 - Present
  • Committee Member for Steering Committee AAA Intensive Data and Analytics Summer Workshop 7/1/21 - Present
  • Committee Member for Boston Alteryx User Group 6/1/21 - Present
  • for Mini-track co-chair, SIG-ASYS, for Americas Conference on Information Systems 1/1/21 - Present
  • Member of the Greater Boston Chapter Board of Governors, Institute of Internal Auditors for The Institute of Internal Auditors Greater Boston Chapter 6/1/17 - Present
  • for KPMG MADA - Faculty Reviewer 10/1/23 - 1/31/24
  • Committee Member for Accounting Information Systems Section of American Accounting Association 8/1/17 - 8/31/23
  • Member, Review Panel for IMA Management Accounting Task Force 8/1/21 - 10/31/21
  • Committee Chair for Accounting Information Systems Section of American Accounting Association 8/1/20 - 8/31/21
  • Member of Granite State Chapter Board of Directors, Institute of Internal Auditors for Institute of Internal Auditors - Granite State Chapter 6/1/08 - 5/31/11
  • Service: Ph.D. Advising


  • Independent Study Advisor 2022/03 - Present
  • Service: University


  • Committee Member for ExecEd Pilot Project 9/1/23 - Present
  • Committee Member for Innovation + Technology + Entrepreneurship Design Working Group 1/1/23 - Present
  • Committee Member for Calendar Committee 9/1/22 - Present
  • Committee Member for Healthcare Ecosystem Implementation Working Group 7/1/22 - Present
  • Mentor (Faculty) for ISACA Student Group 7/1/19 - Present
  • Committee Member for LMS Pilot 11/1/22 - 6/30/23
  • Task Force Member for Brightspace Pilot 1/1/23 - 5/31/23
  • Committee Member for Faculty Activity Reporting Platform Review Committee 11/1/22 - 5/31/23
  • for Virtual Lab Testing 8/1/20 - 12/31/22
  • University Senate for Faculty Senate 9/1/19 - 6/30/22
  • Task Force Member for First Generation Student Task Force 9/1/18 - 6/30/22
  • Committee Member for Board of Trustees Enrollment Committee 8/1/21 - 5/31/22
  • Committee Member for Provost Search Committee 1/1/22 - 4/30/22
  • Committee Member for Strategic Priority Committee - Positioning and Partnerships 10/1/21 - 3/31/22
  • Committee Member for Registrar Search Committee 8/1/21 - 1/31/22
  • Committee Member for Transfer Advisory Committee for Curriculum Task Force 5 7/1/21 - 11/30/21
  • for Bentley University, Senate Planning Committee , Secretary 7/1/20 - 6/30/21
  • Pilot Tester for LMS for LMS Evaluation Pilot Program 1/1/21 - 5/31/21
  • Committee Member for Registration Working Group—Academic Affairs IS Operations group ("11am group") 8/1/20 - 5/31/21
  • Committee Member for Return to Campus Task Force - Classrooms, Centers and Labs Working Group 7/21/20 - 1/31/21
  • Task Force Member for Graduate Certificate Development 4/1/20 - 12/31/20
  • for Pilot Course Development Teams 1/1/20 - 10/20/20
  • Committee Member for Faculty Evaluation Procedures Committee 9/1/19 - 6/30/20
  • Program Organizer for ISACA Student Scholarship Competition 9/1/19 - 4/18/20
  • Task Force Member for AACSB Accountancy CIR Working Group 8/1/19 - 4/7/20
  • for Mentor (Faculty) for First Year Seminar 8/1/17 - 12/31/18
  • for General Business Core 7/1/17 - 6/30/18
  • Committee Member for First Year Seminar Steering Committee 9/1/16 - 12/31/17
  • for GB Core Course Review Team 1/1/17 - 9/30/17