Emily Hickman

Associate Professor

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Dr. Emily Hickman is an Associate Professor of Accounting in the Orfalea College of Business. She has taught principles of managerial and financial accounting, advanced managerial accounting, as well as financial statement analysis and valuation. Getting to know her students and helping to open doors for their future careers are the two aspects of being a professor that she finds particularly rewarding.

After working as an analyst on the Executive Finance Strategy Team for Micron Technology, Emily pursued Master’s studies at Gonzaga University. She then earned her Ph.D. from Washington State University. After teaching for two years at the University of New Mexico, Professor Hickman joined the Orfalea College of Business in 2019. She was selected to attend the 2018 AAA New Faculty Consortium and the 2020 Deloitte TrueBlood Seminar, and she is a Deloitte J. Michael Cook Doctoral Fellow.

Professor Hickman’s research interests include corporate governance, reporting quality, business ethics, corporate social responsibility reporting and assurance, as well as judgment and decision-making in accounting. Her work has been published in The British Accounting Review, Managerial Auditing Journal, Emerging Markets Review, Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, Accounting and the Public Interest, Managerial Finance, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, and The Journal of Economic Studies, among others. She has served as a reviewer for numerous journals and AAA conferences. Professor Hickman also served as a panelist at the Daniel’s Ethics Workshop in 2018 and as a presenter and discussant at the 2019 AAA Ethics Research Symposium.

In her spare time, Emily enjoys hiking with her husband and their dog (Zook), jogging with her friends, and snowboarding.