Bringing the Accounting Classroom to Life: Innovative Accounting Education for Today's Students
Join Dr. Kelly Pope as she shares the dynamic ways she is helping bring engagement, real world problem-solving skills, and readiness for the best job opportunities to the accounting classroom.
Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope, CPA, DePaul University
Dr. Kelly Pope, CPA, accounting education innovator at DePaul University, filmmaker/director of All The Queen's Horses and now co-author of Managerial Accounting by Cainas/Joszi/Pope, will lead an engaging discussion to share the approaches she takes in the classroom to meet the needs of today's students.
Students today are different. As we continue on through this digital transformation, we have more opportunities than ever before to engage students with content that brings key course concepts to everyday life. Please join us to meet Kelly and learn about the dynamic ways she is helping bring engagement, real world problem-solving skills, and readiness for the best job opportunities to the accounting classroom.
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About the speaker
Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope, CPA, DePaul University
Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope is a nationally recognized expert in forensic accounting and white-collar crime research. She is an award-winning educator, researcher, and documentary filmmaker. She currently serves as Professor of Accounting in the School of Accountancy and Management Information Systems at DePaul University, where she teaches managerial and forensic accounting.
Her research focuses on organizational misconduct, ethics and fraud, and corporate culture and compliance systems designed to confront these challenges. Dr. Pope's research on executive misconduct culminated in directing and producing the award-winning documentary, All The Queen's Horses, in 2017.
In 2018, Dr. Pope became a TED speaker with her impactful and timely TED Talk entitled "How whistle-blowers shape history" which has been viewed over 1.6 million times and translated into 20 languages. In 2020, the American Institute of CPAs and the CPA Practice Advisor named Dr. Pope among the top 25 most powerful women in accounting.
Dr. Pope has received numerous teaching and innovation awards including the DePaul University Lawrence W. Ryan Distinguished Teaching Award, the MERLOT Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources in Business (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), the American Accounting Association Diversity Section Innovation in Research Award, and the AICPA Mark Chain/FSA Teaching Innovation Award. One of her proudest moments to date was receiving the invitation to be the 2019 Fall Commencement speaker at her alma mater, North Carolina A&T State University.
Dr. Pope currently serves as a board member and chair of the Greater Chicago Food Depository audit committee. She is a former director and finance chair for Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, former director of the Illinois CPA Society and former member of the governing council for AICPA. She received her bachelor of science in accounting from North Carolina A&T State University and her masters in accountancy and doctorate in accounting from Virginia Tech. She is a licensed certified public accountant (CPA) in the state of North Carolina.