Brian Ballou

Professor & Co-Director, Center for Business Excellence

Accountancy

Profile	Biography	Courses

Academic Background

Associate Professor, Miami University (2004–Present).
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign (2003–2003).
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2003–2003).
Associate Professor, Auburn University (2002–2003).
Assistant Professor, Auburn University (1997–2002).
Visiting Professor/Ph.D. program, Michigan State University (1992–1997).
Visiting Professor, Grand Valley State University (1996–1996).
Senior Financial Analyst, Lexis/Nexis (1991–1992).
Senior Auditor, Enrst & Young (1989–1991).
Postgraduate Intern, Financial Accounting Standards Board (1988–1989).

Ballou, B. J., Brewer, P., & Heitger, D. L. (2006). Integrating the Balanced Scorecard and Enterprise Risk Management. Internal Auditing, 34-38.
Ballou, B. J. & Heitger, D. L. (2006). Tapping a Risk Labor Pool. Harvard Business Review, 28-30.
Ballou, B. J., Heitger, D. L., & Landes, C. (2006). The Future of Corporate Sustainability Reporting: A Rapidly-Growing Assurance Opportunity. Journal of Accountancy, 65-74.
Ballou, B. J. & Heitger, D. (2005). Practical Enterprise Risk Management: A Building Block Approach to Implementing COSO 2004. Management Accounting Quarterly, 1-10.
Ballou, B. J. & Heitger, D. (in press). A Cognitive Characterization of Audit Analytical Procedures under Strategic-Systems Auditing. Journal of Theoretical Accounting Research, 1, 1-37.
Knechel, W. R., Ballou, B. & Salterio, S. (2007). The Integrated Audit: A Global Risk Perspective Thomson College Publishing.
Peecher, M., Solomon, I. & Ballou, B. (2007). Assurance Services: An Introduction and Applications, 3e (under contract).

2005: Best Professor, Masters in Accountancy students.
2004: Certificate of Merit research award, Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).
2004: University of Illinois List of Teachers ranked as Excellent by their students.
2003–2001: Named the KPMG Faculty Fellow for Auburn University.
2003, 1999: Outstanding Teacher Award, Auburn University School of Accounting Masters in Accountancy Program.
2002: Outstanding Distance Learning Accounting Educator's Award, Auburn University School of Accountancy.
2001: Excellence in Outreach Award, Auburn University College of Business.
2001: Faculty Honoree. Nominated by students to represent the Auburn University faculty at one of the eight 2001 freshman orientation and integration three-day events known as Camp War Eagle.
1999: Celita Everitt Annual Award for Teaching Excellence, Auburn University College of Business.
1997, 1996: Teaching Honorable Mention, Grand Valley State College of Business.
1996, 1995: Excellence-in-Teaching Citation, Michigan State University.
1995: Big Ten Doctoral Consortium. Chosen as a Michigan State University representative at this annual accounting consortium held in 1995 at the University of Chicago., Michigan State University.

Research: The impact of strategy, business processes, and enterprise risk management on assurance and corporate reporting, particularly in response to the transition to an informaiton age business paradigm.
Teaching: Corporate Governance, Enterprise Risk Management and Business Reporting; Auditing and Assurance