Assistant Professor of Accountancy
- PhD, Rutgers University, Accounting
- BSBA, Georgetown University, Accounting
Kristyn Calabrese is an assistant professor of accountancy at the University of San Diego's Knauss School of Business. She received her PhD in Accounting from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Georgetown University. She is a licensed CPA and has professional experience working as a financial accountant at Interactive Brokers and as an audit senior associate at KPMG.
Professor Calabrese has experience teaching graduate and undergraduate financial accounting courses. She currently teaches Advanced Accounting and Principles of Financial Accounting. She has also designed and instructed lectures on audit data analytics for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and Deloitte Spain.
Professor Calabrese’s research focuses on topics related to auditors and financial analysts. In her dissertation, she seeks to quantify the impact of workload and time pressures on audit effort and the implications for audit timeliness and quality. She is a member of the American Accounting Association and has presented her research at several national and international academic conferences.
Areas of Expertise
Corporate Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Auditing, Audit Data Analytics
Awards
- Best Paper Award by a Doctoral Student, AAA Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting, 2018
- Laurels Fund Scholarship, Educational Foundation for Women in Accounting, 2018
- Dissertation Fellowship, Rutgers Graduate School – Dean’s Office, 2018-2019
- Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Rutgers PhD in Management Program, 2014-2018
- Magna Cum Laude, Georgetown University, 2010
Selected Publications
- Calabrese, K. (2023) The effects of time pressure on audit fees, Advances in Accounting, 63, 100663.
- Calabrese, K., Durkin, M., Suslava, K. Changes in the Reporting of Critical Audit Matters, International Journal of Auditing.