Walker’s research interest concerns factors that influence auditors’ judgment and decision making related to financial reporting. Specifically, she is interested in how audit technologies, such as audit data analytics, affect auditors’’ judgments and audit quality.

A licensed CPA in North Carolina, Walker has more than six years of professional experience as an external and internal auditor. Before starting her doctoral studies, she was an information technology audit manager at Carlisle Companies in North Carolina, where she worked primarily on operational and compliance audits. Her honors and awards include an AICPA (American Institute of CPAs) doctoral fellowship and a best paper award at the 2018 meeting of the diversity section of the American Accounting Association.

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