Profiles
Senior Instructor of Accounting
Robin Clement, PhD, instructor of accounting, received her B.S. in business administration at The Ohio State University, her MBA at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and her PhD in business administration at Michigan State University. Dr. Clement has served as a staff accountant for Arthur Andersen & Co. and has previous academic experience at Louisiana State University, Tulane University, and Michigan State University.
Scharpf Professor of Accounting and Accounting Department Head
David A. Guenther is the Scharpf Professor of Accounting at the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon. Professor Guenther is a leading scholar in the field of taxation as it applies to accounting issues. Professor Guenther's papers have been published in leading academic journals in accounting and finance, including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, and the Journal of Accounting Research, and his papers have been awarded the American Taxation Association's annual Tax Manuscript Award three times.
Senior Instructor of Accounting
Areas of Expertise
Auditing
Corporate Governance
Entrepreneurial Accounting
Financial Statement Analysis
Taxation
Adjunct Instructor of Accounting
Drummond Kahn is a professional auditor, working since 1990 in audit positions with organizations in the federal and state government, including serving for over five years in the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), and directing the audit function in one of Oregon's largest state agencies.
Drummond holds a master's degree from the University of Oregon, a bachelor's degree from Whitman College, and has completed professional coursework at the U.S. General Accounting Office Training Institute and at the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. He is a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Government Financial Manager, and Certified Government Auditing Professional.
Associate Professor of Accounting
General Research Areas: The effects of taxes on corporate financial reporting, investment, and capital structure decisions, and the market capitalization of corporate and investor level taxes.
Professor of Accounting
Professor Matsunaga's teaching interests include introductory and intermediate financial accounting. His main research interests involve the design of managerial compensation contracts. He is currently studying the valuation of employee stock options.
Matsunaga is a co-recipient of the 1995 outstanding manuscript award from the American Taxation Association. In addition, he is a past recipient of a KPMG Peat Marwick Foundation Tax Research Opportunities Award.
Professor Emeritus of Accounting
Professor Morse taught at Cornell University from 1978 to 1991. He has also taught courses in Nepal, New Zealand, China, Finland, Indonesia, and Kenya, where he was a Fullbright Scholar. His teaching and research interests are in financial and cost accounting.
Morse has written a book on market efficiency and accounting and a book on cost accounting. He has also published in the Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Financial Analyst Journal.