Abraham Carr, PhD, CPA

Department

• Accounting and Business Intelligence & Analytics

Position

• Assistant Professor

Presentations

Research and Scholarship Interests

• Primary interest is in the area of Auditing. Specific areas of interest include: auditor motivation, audit documentation, and workplace stress.

Current Research Projects

• “Improving the Quality of Auditors’ Motivation: Insights from Self-Determination Theory”. Dissertation.
  
  “Can Documentation of Contradictory Evidence Help Auditors Overcome the Tendency to Accept Clients’ Preferred Aggressive Accounting Choices?” with Brian Mayhew and Tyler Thomas.  Awarded a research grant from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)

• Doctoral Consortium Fellow, AAA/Deloitte Foundation/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium , 2017
• Douglas Clarke Memorial Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Accounting Department , 2016
• Distinguished Teaching Award, Wisconsin School of Business , 2015
• E.J. Blakely Memorial Ph.D. Fellowship, 2015