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Robert A. Leitch



Professor

Friends of Accounting -
Donald H. Cramer Professorship in Accounting

School of Accounting


Contact Information
Phone: (803) 777-6418
leitch@moore.sc.edu

Biography

Robert A. Leitch is a professor of accounting and holds the Friends of Accounting - Donald H. Cramer Professorship in Accounting at the University of South Carolina Moore School of Business. He received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University, master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University, and Ph. D. from the University of Tennessee.

Dr. Leitch's primary teaching interests are management accounting and accounting information systems. He has coauthored two books in accounting information systems and in management information systems.

Dr. Leitch's research interests include information system development, cost management systems, analytical review procedures, and statistical sampling. He has published articles in various journal including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and TheoryManagement Science, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrica, Decision SciencesJournal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Accounting Literature, and Management Accounting Research.

Dr. Leitch has been a faculty member at the University of Georgia, the University of Alabama and Virginia Tech. He has been a visiting faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition he has been the Associate Dean of the College of Business at the University of Georgia and Director of the School of Accounting at the University of Alabama.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1973
  • M.S., Carnegie Mellon University, 1967
  • B.S., Cornell University, 1963

Vita

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