Ellen Lippman PhD

About

Ellen Lippman holds the John Becic Distinguished Professorship in Accounting position at the University of Portland's Pamplin School of Business. She earned her B.A. from Colorado College, her M.S. in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin (Madison), and her Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Oregon. She is a Certified Public Accountant and specializes in teaching financial accounting and auditing. Her research concentrates on ethics frameworks of accountants and the accounting controls within the accounting system designed to monitor ethical behavior.  Her recent publications in this area include the Journal of Business Ethics, the Accounting History Journal, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Professor-Practitioner Cases, the Accounting Historians Journal, the CPA Journal, and the Journal of Critical Incidents.  Her published works have won the Innovation in Accounting History Education award (2009) and Best Paper Award for Excellence Academy of Accounting Historians (2017). She enjoys mentoring students and has coached student teams that have won accounting competitions at the regional and national levels.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oregon
• Master of Science, University of Wisconsin 
• Bachelor of Arts, Colorado College

Curriculum Vita