KELLY L. WILLIAMS, CPA (TN-INACTIVE)

Business and Aerospace Building
1642 MTSU Boulevard
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Middle Tennessee State University
Jennings A. Jones College of Business

   kelly.williams@mtsu.edu
(615) 898-2355

EDUCATION
E. H. Patterson School of Accountancy, The University of Mississippi, Doctor of Philosophy in Accountancy (Management Information Systems minor), August 2015
Christian Brothers University, Master of Business Administration, December 2005
Christian Brothers University, Bachelor of Science in Accountancy (Psychology minor), August 2001

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 
Assistant Professor of Accounting, Middle Tennessee State University
Research Assistant/Instructor, University of Mississippi Senior Accountant, Marsh USA Inc.
Staff Accountant, Marsh USA Inc.
Staff Accountant, Dixon Odom, PLLC (now Dixon
Hughes Goodman)
Lead Instructor, Becker Professional Education
Instructor, Becker Professional Education
Classroom Facilitator, Becker Professional Education
Accounting Intern, Trammell Crow

August 2014 - Present
  August 2009 – May 2014
April 2006 – August 2009
August 2003 – April 2006

Sep 2001 – August 2003
May 2006 – October 2006
May 2005 – May 2006
1994 – 2001
July 1998 – March 1999

RESEARCH PAPERS
•	The Use of Ohlson’s O-Score in Predicting Bankruptcy for Small Asset and Large Asset Firms in Thailand (With Surapol Pongsatat; accepted for publication at Journal of Finance and Accountancy in May 2018)
•	The State of Critical Thinking in the Internal Audit Profession: Implications for Educators and Practitioners (With Audrey Scarlata and Kim Honaker; Internal Auditing; March/April 2018)
•	Reasonable Accommodations for New Mothers in the Workplace after Young (With Patricia S. Wall; Tennessee CPA Journal; January/February 2018)
•	A Tour of Five XBRL Tools: Products That Help Make Tagged Data Work for You and Your Clients (With Mitchell R. Wenger and Rick Elam; Journal of Accountancy; April 2013)
•	XBRL Tagging of Financial Statement Data Using XMLSpy: The Small Company Case (With Rick Elam and Mitchell R. Wenger; Issues in Accounting Education; August 2012)
•	Multilingual Meetings and the Time Value of Accurate Translations (With Milam Aiken and Will Pepper; Business Research Yearbook 2012)
•	Global Ledger: The Next Step for XBRL (With Rick Elam and Mitchell R. Wenger; The CPA Journal; September 2011)

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RESEARCH BOOK
•	 William A. Paton: His Accounting Thought; Volume 22 of Emerald Volume for the series Studies in The Development of Accounting Thought (With Howard J. Lawrence; contract granted November 2017; series editor approved April 2018; will be in print November 2018)

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
•	Can XBRL Improve the Decision Processes and Decision Quality of Novices’ Financial Analysis? (With Audrey N. Scarlata and Brandon Vagner; under review at Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research; submitted March 2018 for second round of review)
•	Misuse and Misconceptions When Evaluating Capital Projects (Under review at Journal of Accounting Education; submitted January 2018)
•	Perceived Leadership Practices and Organization Commitment of Accountants in Thai Commercial Banks (With Theeraphong Boonrugsa; under review at Journal of Applied Business Research; submitted January 2018)
•	Yes, but is it Ethical? (Under review at The Tennessean; submitted January 2018)

WORKING PAPER(S)

 RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
•	Mary E. Murphy’s Contributions to Accounting Thought (With Judy R. Lawrence)
•	Contributions of Charles Ezra Sprague (With Howard J. Lawrence)

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
•	Academy of Business Research “Pioneer Women Accountants: The Contributions of Mary E. Murphy to Accounting Thought” – New Orleans, LA, 2018
o	This paper won the Best Paper Award at the 2018 Academy of Business Research Conference
•	Academy of Business Research “The Contributions of Charles Ezra Sprague to Accounting Thought” – New Orleans, LA, 2018
•	PhD Rookie Recruiting & Research Camp “Automating Financial Statement Analysis Using XBRL Financial Statement Data – An Empirical Investigation” – Miami, FL, 2013
•	University of Mississippi “Automating Financial Statement Analysis Using XBRL Financial Statement Data – An Empirical Investigation” – University, MS, 2012
•	AAA Information Systems Section Midyear Meeting “XBRL Tagging of Financial Statement Data Using XMLSpy: The Small Company Case” – Atlanta, GA, 2011

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OTHER PRESENTATIONS
·	Alumni Day at Middle Tennessee State University “Excel Tips and Tricks” – Murfreesboro, TN, 2016
·	Alumni Day at Middle Tennessee State University “Excel Tips and Tricks” – Murfreesboro, TN, 2017

OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
·	AAA Southeast Regional Meeting – Miami, FL, 2017
·	AAA Annual Meeting – New York City, NY, 2016
·	AAA Annual Meeting – Anaheim, CA, 2013
·	AAA Information Systems Section Midyear Meeting – Atlanta, GA, 2011
·	AAA Annual Meeting – San Francisco, CA, 2010
·	AAA Southeast Regional Meeting – Mobile, AL, 2010

EDITORIAL REVIEW ACTIVITIES
Ad-Hoc Reviewer:
•	Accounting Historians Journal
Reviewer:
•	Information Systems Section Midyear Meeting 2013

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Middle Tennessee State University
·	Principals of Accounting I                     		9 hours           
·	Principals of Accounting II                     		15 hours           
·	Accounting Information Systems
		45 hours

The University of Mississippi
·	Principals of Accounting I                     		21 hours           
·	Principals of Accounting II
		9 hours
·	Cost Accounting
		6 hours
·	Accounting Information Systems
		3 hours

Becker Professional Education
·	Lead Instructor
·	Instructor

             Fall 2014 - Present

       

       Fall 2010 – May 2014

May 2006 – October 2006
May 2005 – May 2006

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FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, & AWARDS
·	AAA/Deloitte Foundation/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2012 
·	University of Mississippi Graduate Achievement Award for Ph.D. Degree in
Accountancy, 2011

SERVICE
 Middle Tennessee State University
	Accounting Department
	Recorder
•	Undergraduate Curriculum and Assessment Committee, 2016/2017, 2017/2018
•	Awards & Scholarship Committee, 2016/2017

Member
•	Undergraduate Curriculum and Assessment Committee, 2015/2016
•	Awards & Scholarship Committee, 2014/2015, Spring 2016
•	Student Success Committee, 2014/2015

	Jones College of Business
Member
•	Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2017/2018