Francine McKenna
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| Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
| Website | www |
Francine McKenna is an American investigative journalist, educator, blogger, and commentator focused on the accounting industry, specifically the Big Four global accounting firms. She has documented these firms' failures to identify problems in the accounting of international financial corporations. A registered Certified Public Accountant in Illinois, McKenna is a full-time lecturer in financial accounting at the Wharton School and writes and issues the newsletter The Dig, where she scrutinizes accounting, audit and corporate governance issues at public and pre-IPO companies. McKenna's work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Time, American Banker, Accountancy Age, Barron’s, Forbes, and Accountancy magazine (UK). Prior to joining the Wharton School, McKenna was the Financial Transparency reporter for Dow Jones/MarketWatch.
Prior to her appointment at Wharton, McKenna taught International Business in the MBA program at American University’s Kogod School of Business in Washington DC, taught graduate courses in Accounting Ethics at the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, and taught a course in reporting on corporate fraud at Baylor University. She has twice been a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism. In 2006, McKenna founded her first blog RetheAuditors.com, which the author of a business ethics textbook considers "should be on every corporate accountant and CPAs watchlist."[2] Before turning to journalism and academia, McKenna spent more than 20 years in public accounting, internal audit, and consulting.
McKenna earned her undergraduate degree in Management, Accounting and Economics at Purdue University and her Master's in Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago. She holds a Certificate in Executive Education from Harvard University in leading professional services firms.[3]