Faculty/Staff
Lisa Gaynor
Professor
lgaynor@usf.edu
Room: BSN 3322
Phone: (813) 974-6566
Fax: (813) 974-6528
Lisa Gaynor is an professor in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy, whose primary teaching responsibilities are in the areas of auditing and financial accounting. She currently teaches intermediate financial accounting at the undergraduate level and the integrative (capstone) seminar in the master's program.
Her general research interests lie in auditing and financial reporting topics with a behavioral and decision making focus. More specifically, her research examines how individuals' (e.g., investors, auditors or audit committee members) judgments and behavior may be affected by rules and regulations related to independence, fraud, fair values and disclosures. She has been published in academic journals such as The Accounting Review, Accounting Organizations & Society, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons and Issues in Accounting Education. In addition, she was chosen as one of the editors in Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory as well as the academic co-editor of Current Issues in Auditing. In 2017, Gaynor was selected to serve on the editorial board of Contemporary Accounting Research, a premier accounting journal.
Gaynor earned a PhD from the University of Texas, Austin; an MBA from the University of Miami and a bachelor's degree from the University