College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

H. T. Scovill Professor of Accountancy and
Associate Head of Accountancy

Ph.D., University of Florida, 1978
B.A., University of South Florida, 1971

Director of Professional Programs, Department of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003 - Present
H. T. Scovill Professor of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994 - Present
Associate Head of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993 - Present
Professor of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991 - Present
Director of Ph.D. Program, Department of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991-1994
Associate Professor of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985-1991
Assistant Professor of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1978-1985

Brown, C., Peecher, M. , Solomon, I. 1999. Auditors' Hypothesis Testing in Diagnostic Inference Tasks. Journal of Accounting Research, 37: 1-26

Brown, C., Solomon, I. 1993. An Experimental Investigation of Explanations for Outcome Effects on Appraisal of Capital-Budgeting Decisions. Contemporary Accounting Research, 10: 83-112

Brown, C., Solomon, I. 1991. Configural Information Processing in Auditing: The Role of Domain Specific Knowledge. The Accounting Review, 66: 100-119

Teaching interests include managerial accounting, management control, and accounting control systems at the undergraduate and master's levels.

Current research interests include human learning, judgment and decision making involving the use of information within business contexts in which it is the individual business person who must assess the relevant uncertainties. Current projects involve the processes employed by auditors to assess causality and to form and test hypotheses concerning observed business and audit events.