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Mark DeFond

  • A. N. Mosich Chair in Accounting
  • Professor of Accounting

Professor DeFond is the A. N. Mosich Chair of Accounting, Leventhal School, University of Southern California. His research investigates issues in auditing, international accounting, and earnings management. He has served as Senior Editor of The Accounting Review and on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals. He is a recipient of the AAA’s Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award, and a four-time MBA Golden Apple teaching award winner. He served as Associate Dean of Faculty at the Leventhal School. He received his PhD at the University of Washington and prior to that worked as an auditor with Deloitte (formerly Touche Ross).

Mark DeFond
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Areas of Expertise

Auditing
Contracting Accounting
Corporate Governance
Earnings Management
Executive Compensation
IFRS

Departments

Leventhal School of Accounting

RESEARCH + PUBLICATIONS

COURSES

Fall 2024
  • GSBA-561
    Evaluating Market Performance
    Evaluation of the firm by the market forces that affect its success; financial accounting and reporting; competitive market analysis; external communication; microeconomics; labor, customer and financial markets, statistical and decision analysis, financial and organization measures of effectiveness.
  • GSBA-566
    Evaluating Business Performance
    Thematic introduction to finance, statistical and decision analysis, marketing, financial accounting and reporting, competitive market analysis, external communication, and financial and organization measures of effectiveness.
  • GSBA-560
    The Perspective of Top Management
    Using cases, students are introduced to top management issues of executive leadership, environmental and strategic analysis, use of financial statements, organizational assessment and design, technology management and decision support systems. Graded CR/NC.
Fall 2023
  • ACCT-615
    Financial Reporting Research
    Introduction to research in financial accounting; develop critical thinking skills for evaluating research; facilitate the generation of ideas for conducting original research. Duplicates credit in ACCT-605.
  • GSBA-561
    Evaluating Market Performance
    Evaluation of the firm by the market forces that affect its success; financial accounting and reporting; competitive market analysis; external communication; microeconomics; labor, customer and financial markets, statistical and decision analysis, financial and organization measures of effectiveness.
  • GSBA-566
    Evaluating Business Performance
    Thematic introduction to finance, statistical and decision analysis, marketing, financial accounting and reporting, competitive market analysis, external communication, and financial and organization measures of effectiveness.
  • GSBA-560
    The Perspective of Top Management
    Using cases, students are introduced to top management issues of executive leadership, environmental and strategic analysis, use of financial statements, organizational assessment and design, technology management and decision support systems. Graded CR/NC.