Our Faculty
Mary Jeanne Welsh, Ph.D.
Chair of Accounting Department
Professor of Accounting
Contact Information
Office: College Hall 300B
Phone: 215.951.1883
Email: welsh@lasalle.edu
Profile
Accounting Professor Mary Jeanne (Jeannie) Welsh received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University and her MBA from the University of New Orleans. Her teaching and research interests lie in the field corporate financial reporting.
Dr. Welsh has served as Chair of the Department of Accounting since 2000 and also directs the four-year, dual B.S./MBA program. She is an active member of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, serving on the editorial board of the PICPA Journal since 2003 and chairing the committee from 2009 - 2011. Dr. Welsh has an extensive service record at the University, including four terms on Faculty Senate with two terms as President, and co-chairing the steering committee from the Middle States decennial review and periodic review report. In 2010, she received the Faculty Distinguished Service Award.
Areas of Expertise
- Financial reporting
- Sustainability reporting
- Behavioral accounting research
Education
- Ph.D., Louisiana State University
- MBA, University of New Orleans
- MLS, Louisiana State University
- B.A., Louisiana State University
Teaching
- Intermediate Accounting I and II
Publications
Johnson & Johnson: A Model for Sustainability Reporting (with S. Borkowski and K. Wentzel). Strategic Finance September 2010, 28-37.
Johnson & Johnson; A Case Study on Sustainability Reporting (with S. Borkowski and K. Wentzel) IMA Educational Case Journal 3 (2) June 2010.
Gen Y Anatomy Lesson: They’re not Alien, Just Different (with P. Brazina) Pennsylvania CPA Journal 81 (3) Fall 2010, 24-27.
Watching the Watchers: A Close look at the PCAOB after Five Years (with B. Leauby and K. Lauriello). Pennsylvania CPA Journal 81(1) Spring 2010, 20-23. (Reprinted Utah Society of CPAs The Journal Entry July/August 2010).
Technology Generation Upgrades; Are Educators and Employers on the Same Page? (with S. Borkowski and Rose Marie Bukics, Lafayette College) Pennsylvania CPA Journal 78 (3) Fall 2007, 22-27. (Reprinted Accounting Web October 16, 2007).
Presentations
It Takes One to Convince One: A Case Study of Johnson & Johnson’s History of Sustainability Reporting using Content Analysis (with S. Borkowski and K. Wentzel). Proceedings of the 2010 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, August 2010.
It Takes One to Convince One: A Case Study of Johnson & Johnson’s History of Sustainability Reporting (with S. Borkowski and K. Wentzel). Proceedings of the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association, April 2010.
Johnson & Johnson; A Case Study on Sustainability Reporting (with Susan C. Borkowski and Kristin Wentzel) Proceedings of the 2010 Management Accounting Research and Case Conference and Doctoral Colloquium. January 2010.
Developing Financial Accounting Research Skills: the Search Project. Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association, August 2009.
An Exploratory Study of Accounting Faculty Publication Patterns Leading to Promotion and Tenure (with S. Borkowski) Developing Financial Accounting Research Skills: the Search Project. Proceedings of the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association, April 2008.
