About Me

I am Richard J. Harshman Professor of Accounting in the Department of Accounting & Taxation, Rockwell School of Business at Robert Morris University. I am also the Director of the MBA program serving 200+ graduate students in the Rockwell School of Business. I was the Department Head of the Accounting and Taxation Department between 2016 and 2023 that serves 350+ graduate and undergraduate students in accounting and 20+ full-time and part-time faculty members – having the opportunity to work with my outstanding faculty to achieve something great is genuinely fantastic! Before I joined RMU, I was a faculty member at the University of Michigan-Flint for nine years. My teaching and research interests are in accounting information systems and the behavioral implications of new technologies in accounting and education.

Career Highlights

Fulbright Scholar, Lecture/Research Grant visiting Meiji Gakuin University, Japan in 2023
Pennsylvania CPA Foundation Board of Directors, 2023-2025
President of the American Accounting Association Mid-Atlantic Region, 2021-2022
Led the department’s initiative to pursue and earn the AACSB’s Accounting Accreditation in 2021.
RMU’s Faculty Global Engagement Award recipient.
RMU School of Business Teaching Innovation Award recipient.
Ranked #45 researcher worldwide in AIS research utilizing experimental methodology in the BYU Accounting Rankings 2021.
Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 2018-2020.