Becky recently joined Purdue’s Mitch Daniels School of Business as a Clinical Assistant
Professor and is excited about sharing the joys of debits and credits with future Boilermakers.
Prior to beginning her academic career, she enjoyed nearly two decades in professional practice
as a forensic accountant, expert witness, and licensed private investigator with an independent
CPA firm servicing the southwest Florida region. In this role, Becky worked on and managed a
diverse array of financial investigation engagements across a variety of circumstances,
information formats, and business industries – from economic damages claims and operational
reviews of processes and controls to civil and criminal investigations of occupational fraud. She
also has ten years of homebuilding experience – both in the office and in the field – accumulated
prior to entering public accounting.

Becky started her college education at the local community college in southwest Florida and
completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting at Florida Gulf Coast University
while working full time in public practice. Two decades later she returned to graduate school and
earned a Ph.D. in accounting from Texas Tech University in May 2025. Her research uses
archival methodologies to study the impact of auditor characteristics and disclosure of audit
information and processes on audit outcomes.

Becky is a Certified Public Accountant (Texas) and a Certified Fraud Examiner. She is also
Certified in Financial Forensics and is the first such credential holder to transition from
professional practice to academia.