Biography
Carissa Malone joined the Freeman School of Business in the fall of 2024. She teaches managerial accounting in the undergraduate program. She is also a PhD student at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on the judgment and decision-making of auditors. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review. Prior to joining Freeman, Malone was a Board Fellow at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Before beginning her doctoral studies, she worked in auditing and accounting compliance across various industries including non-profit, oil and gas, consulting, and retail. Malone earned an MBA in accounting from the University of St. Thomas – Houston and a bachelor's degree in anthropology from The University of Texas at Austin. She was an AICPA Doctoral Fellow and is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society and The PhD Project. In 2021, she received the Best PhD Student Paper Award from the Auditing Section of the AAA and a CAQ-AAA Auditing Section Access to Audit Personnel Grant.
