Dr. Margaret O'Reilly-Allen

Chairperson

• Email Address: oreillyallen@rider.edu
• Phone: (609) 895-5505
• Office: Sweigart Hall 350
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• Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

Dr. O’Reilly-Allen has been a member of the Rider Community since 1991. She teaches the laptop based undergraduate introductory financial and managerial accounting courses, Cost Management and the graduate course Issues in Financial Reporting.   She has also led business study tours to Spain and Italy. She is also the Director of the Accounting Internship Program.

O’Reilly-Allen has been a past recipient of three Davis Research Fellowships and researches primarily in the areas of the information content of various auditor reports and teaching effectiveness.  Her work has appeared in publications including Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, The CPA Journal, American Business Review, and the International Journal of Finance.

She is a member of the American Accounting Association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Beta Alpha Psi (Accounting Honors Society), and the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs, and is a past editor of the Pennsylvania CPA Journal.

Background Information

• Doctor of Philosophy, 1997, Drexel University, Accounting, Quantitative Methods
• Master of Business Administration, 1987, Drexel University, Finance
• Bachelor’s of Business Administration, 1982, Temple University, Accounting

• O'Reilly-Allen, M. & Zikmund, P. E. (2009).  Whose Responsibility is it to Deter and Detect Fraud? The Role of Management, the Auditor and the Fraud Examiner. Journal of Global Business Management, 5 (1).
• O'Reilly-Allen, M. & Zantout, Z. (2007). The Welfare Effects of the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 and the National Cooperative Production Amendments of 1993. American Journal of Economics & Sociology.
• O'Reilly-Allen, M. & Vinciguerra, B. (2004).  An Examination of the Factors Influencing Managers and Auditors of Earning Management Intentions. American Business Review.

• O'Reilly-Allen, M. & Zikmund, P. (2008).  What Management Needs to Understand: the Difference between an Audit and a Fraud Examination. Global Business and International Management Conference.  

• O'Reilly-Allen, M. & Wagemnan, D. (in press, 2009).  Who Will Teach Future Accountants? Pennsylvania CPA Journal.
• Zikmund, P. & O'Reilly-Allen, M. (2007).  I am an Auditor, Darn It, Not An Investigator ... Right? Pennsylvania CPA Journal. (Invited)

National

• O'Reilly-Allen, M. (2009, August). Effective Learning Strategies - Aligning Introductory Accounting Courses with Program Goals: The Case for Professional Development.    American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York.
• O'Reilly-Allen, M., Heintz, J., Mutchler, J., Rubin, M., & Weinstein, G. (2008). Managing Faculty Resources.   Presented at American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California.
• O'Reilly-Allen, M., Wygal, D., & Haywood-Sullivan, M. E. (2006, August). Leveraging Stakeholders Sources to Promote Skills Development.   Presented at American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Washington, District of Columbia.

Other Publications

• 2009 -  Reprint of 'Help Wanted: Accounting PhDs' article that was originally published in the PA CPA Journal. Article was picked up and reprinted in the Washington State CPA Journal, Jan/Feb 2009, Vol. 51 No. 54.
• 2004 -  ''Have You Seen...'' - American Accounting Association, Vol. 27, No. 3, paper abstract of Examination of Factors Influencing Manager and Auditor Judgments of the Appropriateness of Accounting Treatment and Earnings Management.

Web Publications

• 2007 -  'I'm an Auditor, Darn It, Not an Investigator ... Right?' Posted as a podcast and featured article on Accounting Web.com website on Monday, September 24, 2007. With Paul Zikmund, CFE, CFD, Adjunct Instructor of Accounting, Rider University.

Awards/Honors
2008:  Rider University Summer Fellowship: The Influence of Red Flag Indicators on Auditor Risk Judgments and Audit Planning, Rider University, College of Business Administration.
2007:  Forensic Grant to Rider University, National Institute of Justice.
2006:  Forensic Grant, Rider University.
2006:  Davis Fellowship: The Effect of Internal Control Reports on Users' Perception of the Reliability of Financial Statements in Post Sarbanes-Oxley Environment, Rider University, College of Business Administration.
2004:  Research Leave, Rider University.