Priscilla Burnaby

Priscilla Burnaby, PhD was a senior auditor with Coopers & Lybrand in Boston. She is a Full Professor of Accountancy at Bentley, where she is in her 39th year of service. Current research interests are in the areas of enterprise-wide risk management, performance measurement, and internal auditing issues. Her teaching interests include internal auditing, risk management, performance measurement, forensic and investigative accounting . She has been the Bentley coordinator for the Institute of Internal Auditors' Internal Auditing Educational Partnership since 1991 and created both the Internal Audit course at the undergraduate and graduate level and Risk Management and Performance Measurement course at the graduate level. She was formerly president of the American Accounting Associations Northeast Region. She has published in Accounting Horizons, International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation, Internal Auditing, Internal Auditor, The Government Accountants Journal, The Ohio CPA, The Journal of Case Research, Women and Men Working Together, Massachusetts CPA Review, Managerial Accounting Journal, and Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting. She has written chapters or cases in the following books: Cases in Government and Nonprofit Organizations, Financial Management of Government: Research Issues, Issues for Women in Higher Education, and Service Efforts and Accomplishments Reporting: Its Time Has Come. She co-authored a research report on service efforts and accomplishments reporting for the Government Accounting Standards Board. She has presented numerous research papers at regional, national, and international conferences. In 1994, she received the Author of the Year Award from The Government Accountants Journal. In 2003, in recognition of her years of service, she was elected to American Accounting Association's Northeast Region's Hall of Fame. In 2004, she received the Lean Radde Educator of the Year Award from the Institute of Internal Auditors. She is the lead author, coordinator and a member of the Lead Team for The IIA's CBOK 2006 research study. In August 2007, she was a keynote speaker at the Institute of Internal Auditing South Africa's annual conference in Johannesburg, South Africa.