Rate My Professor Kimberly Moreno

Professor Kimberly Moreno serves as Professor and Group Chair in Accounting at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. Her research examines decision making in managerial and auditing contexts through the lens of behavioral decision theory. Specific areas of investigation include the effects of emotions on capital budgeting and audit planning decisions, as well as the influence of multi-client audit environments on auditor judgments. She holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts and a BS in Accounting from Babson College. Before entering academia, Moreno gained practical experience in public accounting. Her career trajectory features associate professorships at Virginia Tech and the University of Massachusetts, prior to her arrival at Northeastern in 2007.

Among her accolades are the Tenney Fellowship at Northeastern, recognizing outstanding achievement in research and teaching; Beta Gamma Sigma; the Warren Lloyd Holtzmann Outstanding Educator of the Year Award from Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business; the John E. Peterson Jr. Research Fellow award for 2003-2004; and the William S. Gay Research Fellow award for 2002-2003, both at Virginia Tech. Moreno contributes to the academic community as a member of the editorial board for Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and as an ad-hoc reviewer for prominent journals such as The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Notable publications co-authored by her include “A Comprehensive Set of Introductory Financial Accounting Review Exercises: An Event to Cause Approach” (2013) in Advances in Accounting Education; “Auditors' judgment errors when working on multiple tasks and in multiple client environments: A research summary and practice implications” (2013) in Current Issues in Auditing; “The Role of Auditors' Emotions and Moods on Audit Judgment: A Research Summary with Suggested Practice Implications” (2013) in Current Issues in Auditing; “The Interplay of Interpersonal Affect and Source Reliability on Auditors' Inventory Judgments” (2012) in Contemporary Accounting Research; and “Investment Decision Making: Do Experienced Decision Makers Fall Prey to the Paradox of Choice?” (2010) in the Journal of Behavioral Finance. In the classroom, she instructs undergraduate courses in auditing, managerial accounting, and financial reporting, alongside a PhD seminar on behavioral accounting research.