Our Faculty
Kristin Wentzel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Accounting
Contact Information
Office: College Hall 300D
Phone: 215.951.5176
Email: wentzel@lasalle.edu
Profile
Accounting Professor Kristin Wentzel received her B.S. from La Salle University, her MBA from Villanova University and her Ph.D. from Temple University. Dr. Wentzel’s current research interests include sustainability reporting, advantages of linking courses in business curriculums, and the impact of fairness perceptions in budgetary participation-performance relationships. Dr. Wentzel’s work has been published in the Journal of American Tax Association, Advances in Accounting Education, Advances in Management Accounting, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and the Pennsylvania CPA Journal, among others.
Areas of Expertise
- Management Accounting & Sustainability Reporting
- Advantages of linked courses in business curriculums
- Fairness Perceptions and Budgetary Participation-Performance Issues
Education
- Ph.D., Temple University
- MBA, Villanova University
- B.S., La Salle University
Teaching
- Cost Accounting & Accounting Seminar
- Business Perspectives
- Financial and Graduate Managerial Accounting (hybrid courses)
Publications
Johnson & Johnson: A model for sustainability reporting (with S. Borkowski and M.J. Welsh). 2010. Strategic Finance (September): pp. 29-37.
Johnson & Johnson: A case study on sustainability reporting (with S. Borkowski and M.J. Welsh). 2010. IMA Educational Case Journal, Vol 3, No. 2, pp. 1-15.
Integration is Key to Enhancing Freshman Technology Skills (with A. McAleer). 2009. New Accountant, No. 733, p. 16.
Linking Introductory Tech and Accounting Courses (with A. McAleer). 2008. Pennsylvania CPA Journal, Fall, p. 24.
New Linkages: Integrating Managerial Accounting and Fundamentals of Financial Management (with B. Leauby). 2007. Advances in Accounting Education, Vol. 8, pp. 39-52.
Presentations
“Johnson & Johnson: A model for sustainability reporting” (with S. Borkowski and M.J. Welsh). Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Meeting of the American Accounting Association, April 2010.
“Johnson & Johnson: A case study on sustainability reporting” (with S. Borkowski and M.J. Welsh). Presented at the Management Accounting Sectional Meeting of the American Accounting Association, January 2010.
“Survey of student perceptions: Regarding integrating Managerial Accounting and Fundamentals of Financial Management” (with B. Leauby). Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Meeting of the American Accounting Association, April 2008.
“New Linkages: Integrating Managerial Accounting and Fundamentals of Financial Management” (with B. Leauby). Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Meeting of the American Accounting Association, March 2005.
“An investigation of why taxpayers prefer refunds: A theory of planned behavior approach (with D. Bobek and R. Hatfield). Presented at La Salle’s Brown Bag Research Forum, March 2007; the American Tax Association Research Conference of the American Accounting Association, February 2006; the Accounting, Behavior, & Organizations Sectional Meeting of the American Accounting Association, October 2005; the Mid-Atlantic Meeting of the American Accounting Association, March 2005.
