Faculty/Staff

Uday Murthy

Uday Murthy

Professor and Eminent Scholar
umurthy@usf.edu
Room: BSN 3315
Phone: (813) 974-1954
 Fax: (813) 974-6528
 Vita

Uday S. Murthy is the Quinn Eminent Scholar in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy who had, for eight years until 2019, served as the school's director. He has received several research awards, including the Muma College of Business Outstanding Research Achievement Award in 2004 and 2010 and the Grant Thornton USF Faculty Research Award for 2005 and 2006. Murthy teaches graduate courses in accounting information systems and PhD seminars in research methods and accounting information systems.

Murthy studies data modeling and design methodologies for accounting systems, auditing computer-based systems, expert systems and group support systems in accounting. His research has been published or accepted for publication in scholarly journals such as The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, the Journal of Management Information Systems, the Journal of Information Systems, the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, and the International Journal of Auditing.

He earned a PhD from Indiana University and MBA from Drexel University. Qualified as a Chartered Accountant in India, he worked at Price Waterhouse in Mumbai, India. He has served as coeditor of the Journal of Information Systems, the leading academic journal for accounting information systems research.

Teaching

  • ACG 6841C - Innovation & Analytics in Accounting

Research

  • Perols, R. and U.S. Murthy (2021). “The Impact of Cybersecurity Risk Management Examinations and Cybersecurity Incidents on Investor Perceptions and Decisions” Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 40(1): 73-79.
  • Tadesse, A.F and U.S. Murthy (2021). “Does the Format of Internal Control Disclosures Matter? An Experimental Investigation of Nonprofessional Investor Behavior” Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 40(1): 91-106.
  • Murthy, U., T. Smith, J. Whitworth, and I. Zhang (2020) “The Effects of Information Systems Compatibility on Firm Performance Following Mergers and Acquisitions”. Journal of Information Systems 34(2): 211-233.
  • Hamilton, E., R. Hirsch, U. Murthy, and J. Rasso, (2019), “The Effects of a Public Indicator of Accounting Aggressiveness on Managers’ Financial Reporting Decisions,” Managerial Auditing Journal 34(8): 986-1007.
  • Murthy, U.S. and Wheeler, P.R., (2018), “The Effects of Decision-Aid Design on Auditor Performance in Internal Control Evaluation Tasks,” Journal of Information Systems 32(2): 95-113.

Service

  • Member, Muma College of Business Associate Dean Search Committee, 2012-13
  • Member, Muma College of Business Dean Search Committee, 2011-12
  • President, Information Systems Section, American Accounting Association, 2011-12
  • Member, Muma College of Business Research & Scholarship Committee, 2003-2011
  • Editorial board member, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems
  • Editorial board member, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting