Title

Senior Lecturer and MBA Program Director at The Heller School, and Senior Lecturer at the International Business School

International Business School
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Expertise

Financial and managerial accounting; auditing

Profile

Brenda Anderson teaches at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management and the International Business School at Brandeis University. She has also taught at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Northeastern University, and Boston University. Prior to entering academia, Brenda worked as an auditor for KPMG Peat Marwick and is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Connecticut. Her research focuses primarily on behavioral issues in accounting, with an emphasis on the human information processing aspects of professional auditor judgment. Professor Anderson has received research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Ernst & Young Foundation. She has published in journals such as The International Journal of Auditing; Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory; Behavioral Research in Accounting; and the Journal of the American Taxation Association.