Meghann Abell Cefaratti joined the NIU faculty in 2009. She is a former auditor for the Air
Force Audit Agency (AFAA) where her audit coverage included Andrews Air Force Base, MD,
the Pentagon and various Air National Guard installations. Prior to working with the AFAA, she
worked as a tax associate for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Baltimore office.
Professor Cefaratti earned her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech and her dissertation received the 2011
Best Dissertation Award from the Forensic and Investigative Accounting Section of the
American Accounting Association (AAA). Her primary research interest involves the study of
the effect of corroborating evidence on auditors’ fraud risk assessment judgments. Her research
has been published in the Journal of Information Systems, Internal Auditing, Journal of Forensic
and Investigative Accounting, Internal Auditor, the ISACA Journal, and the Journal of
Continuing Higher Education and is forthcoming in the Journal of the Association for
Information Systems (JAIS). She has presented her research at national conferences such as the
AAA's Annual Meeting and the Mid-Year Research Conference for the Forensic and
Investigative Accounting Section of the AAA.
Professor Cefaratti teaches financial accounting and assurance services. She is a member of the
American Accounting Association, and her research has received awards from the Accounting
and Information Systems Educators Association.
Meghann Cefaratti can be reached at mcefaratti@niu.edu .