Linda Matuszewski

Dean and Brenda DuCray Professor of Accountancy

Department

Accountancy

Education

Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
M.B.A., University of Cincinnati, Business Administration
B.A., Alma College

Awards

American Accounting Association Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Section Outstanding Accounting Education Research Award for the paper “Leveraging Medical Education Resources to Enhance Instruction in Accounting Education," 2023
Department of Accountancy Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, NIU, 2022, 2017, 2016, 2013, 2012
College of Business Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, NIU, 2017
American Accounting Association Professionalism and Ethics Committee and Public Interest Section, Best Applied Research Award, for the paper "Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? An Examination of Exposure to Agency Theory and Unethical Behavior," 2016
Institute of Management Accountants Lybrand Bronze Medal for "Designing Honesty into Your Organization," selected as one of the outstanding articles published in Strategic Finance or Management Accounting Quarterly during 2011, 2012

Teaching Areas

Managerial and financial accounting.

Research Interests

Managerial accounting topics including the effect of personality traits, fairness perceptions and exposure to agency theory on honesty in reporting, and questions related to trade and strategy maps.
Papers targeting a practitioner audience which explore the relative dominance of certifications, changes in certification exams and accounting for goodwill.
Teaching and learning accounting, including a business plan teaching case, a paper describing NIU's ethics framework, an accounting education literature review, and a paper describing how medical education resources might be useful to accounting educators.

Publications

Burns, C., Fischer, M., Latham, C., Matuszewski, L. J., Sage, J. A. (2022). "Leveraging Medical Education Resources to Enhance Instruction in Accounting Education," Journal of Accounting Education, 60, 19.
Mastilak, C., Matuszewski, L. J., Miller, F., Woods, A. (2018). "Self-fulfilling Prophecy? An Examination of Exposure to Agency Theory and Unethical Behavior," Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting, 21, 111-152.
Drake, A. R., Matuszewski, L. J., Miller, F. (2013). "The Effect of Personality Traits and Fairness on Honesty in Managerial Reporting," Advances in Management Accounting, 22, 43-69.
Miller, F., Denison, C., Matuszewski, L. J. (2013). "Modeling the Antecedents of Preferences for Incomplete Contracts in Bilateral Trade: An Experimental Investigation," Behavioral Research in Accounting, 25 (1), 135-159.
Matuszewski, L. J. (2010). "Honesty in Managerial Reporting: Is it Affected by Perceptions of Horizontal Equity?" Journal Of Management Accounting Research, 22, 233-250.

Biography

Linda Matuszewski joined the faculty in 2006. She is a CPA and has previously served as the chief financial officer for a nonprofit organization and as a senior manager in the health care and exempt organizations practice at Ernst & Young.

She teaches managerial and financial accounting classes. Her research explores several managerial accounting topics including the effect of personality traits, fairness perceptions and exposure to agency theory on honesty in reporting, and questions related to trade and strategy maps. She has also published several papers targeting a practitioner audience which explore the relative dominance of certifications, changes in certification exams and accounting for goodwill.

Her most recent research interests are related to teaching and learning accounting, including a business plan teaching case, a paper describing NIU's ethics framework, an accounting education literature review, and a paper describing how medical education resources might be useful to accounting educators. Her research has been published in Behavioral Research in Accounting, the CPA Journal, the Journal of Accounting Education, the Journal of Management Accounting Research, Strategic Finance, and several other journals. She is a member of numerous professional and academic organizations, and her research has received funding from the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy as well as the Institute of Management Accountants Foundation for Applied Research.