Amanda Beck
Assistant Professor School of Accountancy- Education
- Ph.D. (Accounting), University of Alabama
- MAcc, Auburn University
- BSBA (Accounting), Auburn University
- Specializations
- governmental accounting & reporting
- nonprofit accounting & reporting
- municipal bond markets
- financial accounting
- Biography
Dr. Beck’s research focuses on accounting and reporting in the governmental and nonprofit sectors, such as factors that influence these organizations' accounting choices and reporting quality, and how accounting information affects their costs of debt. Her research has been published in Review of Accounting Studies, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory and Research in Accounting Regulation. Dr. Beck began her career in the banking industry as a financial data analyst. She then earned her Ph.D. in accounting at the University of Alabama and spent two years as a member of the accounting faculty at Georgetown University before joining the faculty at Georgia State University. She is a member of the Audit Committee for the City of Atlanta.