A. Faye Borthick
Professor
School of Accountancy
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
Room: 500 RCB Building
Phone: 404-413-7239
E-Mail: borthick@gsu.edu
Personal Web Page: click to view

EDUCATION:
D.B.A., University of Tennessee-Knoxville
M.B.A., University of Tennessee-Knoxville
B.S., University of Tennessee-Knoxville
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Audit and control of information systems
Development and use of business intelligence to solve organizational problems
Design and assessment of technology-enabled learning experiences
Borthick's research focuses on the development of expertise in accounting systems and IT audit, including the effects of the extent of knowledge structure on performance. In her business situation simulations, students analyze information as if they were professionals on the job, developing analysis skills as they generate evidence for the assessment of the development of expertise in accounting systems and IT audit.

She is a certified public accountant, a certified information systems auditor and a certified management accountant. She was instrumental in establishing an accounting system specialization for the Master of Professional Accountancy (MPA) degree program. Her master's course in information systems assurance taught as collaborative discovery learning online has won national and international awards. She has been the director of a campus-level center for teaching and learning with technology.

Borthick has been the editor of the Journal of Information Systems and an associate editor of Issues in Accounting Education. She is the author of articles in Accounting, Organizations and Society, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, and other accounting and information systems journals—and a co-author of a book on information systems auditing.

PUBLICATIONS:
  • Borthick, A. F. and M. B. Curtis. 2008. Due diligence on fast-fashion inventory through data querying. Journal of Information Systems 22(1).
  • Borthick, A. F. and P. L. Bowen. 2008. Auditing system development: Constructing the meaning of "systematic and rational" in the context of legacy code migration for vendor incentives. Journal of Information Systems 22(1).
  • Borthick, A. F. and D. R. Jones. 2007. Creating a business process diagram and database queries to detect billing errors and analyze calling patterns for cell phone service. Journal of Information Systems 21(1): 102-122.
  • Springer, C. W., and A. F. Borthick. 2007. Improving performance in accounting: Evidence for insisting on cognitive conflict tasks. Issues in Accounting Education 22(1): 1-19.
  • Borthick, A. F., M. B. Curtis, and R. S. Sriram. 2006. Accelerating the acquisition of knowledge structure to improve performance in internal control reviews. Accounting, Organizations and Society 31: 323-342.