Rate My Professor Jenna Burke

Jenna Burke is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Colorado Denver Business School. She earned her PhD in Accountancy from Bentley University and her BSBA in Accounting and Finance from Northeastern University. Licensed as a CPA in Massachusetts, Burke's research centers on emerging topics in external auditing research. Her work examines new disclosure requirements for external auditors and the oversight of risks, including financial reporting complexity and media criticism of client environmental, social, and governance practices. She has published extensively in leading academic journals, contributing insights into auditor responses to various corporate issues.

Burke's key publications include "The disclosure and consequences of U.S. critical audit matters" (The Accounting Review, forthcoming, with R. Hoitash, U. Hoitash, and X. Xiao); "SEC comment letters and 10-K accounting and linguistic reporting complexity" (Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, forthcoming, with K. Gunny); "Do boards take environmental, social, and governance issues seriously? Evidence from media coverage and CEO dismissals" (Journal of Business Ethics, 2022); "The costs and benefits of retirement policies at U.S. audit firms" (Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2022, with R. Hoitash, U. Hoitash); "The use and characteristics of foreign component auditors in U.S. multinational audits: Insights from Form AP disclosures" (Contemporary Accounting Research, 2020, with R. Hoitash, U. Hoitash); "Audit partner identification and characteristics: Evidence from U.S. Form AP filings" (Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, 2019, with R. Hoitash, U. Hoitash); "Auditor response to negative media coverage of client environmental, social, and governance practices" (Accounting Horizons, 2019, with R. Hoitash, U. Hoitash); and "The heterogeneity of board-level sustainability committees and corporate social performance" (Journal of Business Ethics, 2019, with R. Hoitash, U. Hoitash). Burke has received the CU Denver Business School Outstanding Teacher Award for Tenure-Track Faculty (2020) and was nominated for the CU Denver Excellence in Teaching Award for Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty (2021). She is also an AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow and a Harold S. Geneen Institute for Corporate Governance Accountancy Fellow.