Gregory Gerard

Professor
Gregory Gerard
Faculty
Location
346 RBB
Phone
850-644-9115
Academic Specialty
Accounting Information Systems
Education

Ph.D., Accounting, Michigan State University
M.B.A., Management Information Systems, University of Pittsburgh
B.A., Accounting, Westminster College

Areas of Expertise

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
IT Audit
Judgment and Decision Making               

Dr. Greg Gerard is a professor in the Department of Accounting at Florida State University’s College of Business. He works with undergraduate and graduate students and teaches courses in accounting information systems, enterprise systems and emerging technologies.

Gerard has published accounting information systems and auditing articles in a number of academic journals. He has co-authored (with Cheryl Dunn) a book titled REA Accounting Systems and Analytics. He is the former president of both the Accounting Information Systems Section and the Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section of the American Accounting Association.

Currently, he serves as Co-Editor (with Indrit Troshani, University of Adelaide) of the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems.

He is a CPA and member of the American Accounting Association, the Association for Information Systems, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and ISACA. 

Gerard earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Westminster College, his master’s degree in management information systems from the University of Pittsburgh and his Ph.D. in accounting from Michigan State University.

Selected Published Research

Boot, W. R., C. L. Dunn, B. P. Fulmer, G. J. Gerard, and S. V. Grabski. 2022. An eye tracking experiment investigating synonymy in conceptual model validation. International Journal of Accounting Information Systems.

Dunn, C. L., G. J. Gerard, and S. V. Grabski. 2017. The combined effects of user schemas and degree of cognitive fit on data retrieval performance. International Journal of Accounting Information Systems 26: 46-67.

Dunn, C. L., G. J. Gerard, S. V. Grabski, and S. R. Boss. 2017. Asymmetry in identification of multiplicity errors in conceptual models of business processes. Journal of Information Systems 31 (1): 21-39.

Dunn, C. L., G. J. Gerard, and S. V. Grabski. 2016. Resources-Events-Agents design theory: A revolutionary approach to accounting and enterprise system design. Communications of the Association for Information Systems 38: 554-595.

Davidson, B. I., N. K. Desai, and G. Gerard. 2013. The effect of continuous auditing on the relationship between internal audit sourcing and the external auditor's reliance on the internal audit function. Journal of Information Systems 27: 41-59.

Desai, N. K., and G. J. Gerard. 2013. Auditors' consideration of material income-increasing versus material income-decreasing items during the audit process. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 32: 33-51.

Dunn, C. L., G. J. Gerard, and S. V. Grabski. 2011. Diagrammatic attention management and the effect of conceptual model structure on cardinality validation. Journal of the Association for Information Systems 12: 585-605.

Desai, N. K., G. J. Gerard, and A. Tripathy. 2011. Internal audit sourcing arrangements and reliance by external auditors. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 30: 149-171.

Honors and Awards

Outstanding Service Award (from the AIS Section of the American Accounting Association for Co-chairing the 2020 Journal of Information Systems Conference), 2020

Nominated for FSU College of Business undergraduate teaching award, 2020

Outstanding Service Award (from the AIS Section of the American Accounting Association for Distinguished Service as the AIS Section’s Council Representative 2015-2018)

Outstanding Service Award (from the AIS Section of the American Accounting Association for Outstanding Service as President 2013-2014)

Nominated for Florida State University graduate teaching award, 2012

Distinguished Service Award (from the Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section of the American Accounting Association for Leadership, Initiative, and Service in Achieving the Section’s Goals as President 2010-2011)

Outstanding Service Award (from the Information Systems Section of the American Accounting Association for Distinguished Service as 2011 Midyear Meeting Coordinator)

The 2008 Journal of Information Systems Best Reviewer Award