Kip Holderness

Expertise

Business Environment and Concepts (BEC)
Internal controls
Forensic Accounting

Education

B.S. in Accountancy at Brigham Young University
M.S. in Accountancy at Brigham Young University
Ph.D. at Bentley University

Experience

Director of Research for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Research Institute
Internal Auditor at Deseret Mutual
Intern at Deloitte
Intern at PCAOB
Associate Professor at West Virginia University
Teaching and Research Assistant at Brigham Young University

Overview

Kip Holderness is an Associate Professor and the Accounting Ph.D. Program Coordinator at West Virginia University. He is a CPA, CMA, and CFE, and serves as the Director of Research for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Research Institute.

Dr. Holderness received his B.S. in Accountancy at Brigham Young University, his M.S. in Accountancy at Brigham Young University, and his Ph.D. at Bentley University and has been awarded several teaching awards by the Beta Alpha Psi Organization while at West Virginia University.

He’s received awards and numerous grants for his research, including the 2015 Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award and the 2020 Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award. Holderness has also published in practitioner and academic journals in the following areas: fraud and forensics, auditing, managerial accounting, information systems, and accounting education.

He specializes in managerial and forensic accounting, internal controls, the Business Environment and Concepts (BEC) section of the CPA exam, and the Technology and analytics sections of the CMA exam. In his spare time, Kip enjoys cabinetry and beekeeping.

I’m excited, as a professor and as an individual working on this product, to help candidates learn the material to be able to master these concepts and get that designation.

– Kip Holderness, CFE, CMA, CPA, Ph.D.

Highlights

Awards:2015 Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
2020 Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award

Publications:

Lauren A. Cooper, D. Kip Holderness, Trevor L. Sorensen, David A. Wood; Robotic Process Automation in Public Accounting. Accounting Horizons 1 December 2019; 33 (4): 15–35. doi: https://doi.org/10.2308/acch-52466
MacLean, T., Litzky, B.E. & Holderness, D.K. When Organizations Don’t Walk Their Talk: A Cross-Level Examination of How Decoupling Formal Ethics Programs Affects Organizational Members. J Bus Ethics 128, 351–368 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2103-1
D. Kip Holderness, Noah M. Myers, Scott L. Summers, David A. Wood; Accounting Education Research: Ranking Institutions and Individual Scholars. Issues in Accounting Education 1 February 2014; 29 (1): 87–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.2308/iace-50600
D. Kip Holderness, Kari Joseph Olsen, Todd A. Thornock; Who Are You to Tell Me That?! The Moderating Effect of Performance Feedback Source and Psychological Entitlement on Individual Performance. Journal of Management Accounting Research 1 September 2017; 29 (2): 33–46. doi: https://doi.org/10.2308/jmar-51538
Journal of Management Accounting Research 29 (2), 33-46
Ryan J. Baxter, D. Kip Holderness, David A. Wood; Applying Basic Gamification Techniques to IT Compliance Training: Evidence from the Lab and Field. Journal of Information Systems 1 September 2016; 30 (3): 119–133. doi: https://doi.org/10.2308/isys-51341

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Ryan J. Baxter, D. Kip Holderness, David A. Wood; The Effects of Gamification on Corporate Compliance Training: A Partial Replication and Field Study of True Office Anti-Corruption Training Programs. Journal of Forensic Accounting Research 1 December 2017; 2 (1): A20–A30. doi: https://doi.org/10.2308/jfar-51725
Cooper, Lauren and Holderness, Darin Kip and Sorensen, Trevor and Wood, David A., Perceptions of Robotic Process Automation in Big 4 Public Accounting Firms: Do Firm Leaders and Lower-Level Employees Agree? (January 11, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3445005 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3445005
Holderness D. Kip; The Effect of Multiple Auditors on Deception Detection in a Client Inquiry Setting. Behavioral Research in Accounting 1 March 2018; 30 (1): 39–58. doi: https://doi.org/10.2308/bria-51909
Festa, M., Holderness, D., Neidermeyer, A. and Neidermeyer, P., 2019. The Impact of Financial-Aid Format on Students’ Collegiate Financing Decisions. Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 30(1), pp.27-43.
D. Kip Holderness, Kari Joseph Olsen, Todd A. Thornock; Assigned versus Chosen Relative Performance Information: The Effect of Feedback Frequency on Performance. Journal of Management Accounting Research 1 March 2020; 32 (1): 137–158. doi: https://doi.org/10.2308/jmar-52504
Holderness, D. K., Olsen, Kari, Thornock, Todd A., (2016) "Managing Entitled Employees_ Improving Performance Through Feedback and Monitoring" (vol. October). Strategic Finance.
Holderness, D. Kip, Olsen, Kari, Thornock, Todd A, (2019) "Making Performance Feedback Work" (Issue: February). Strategic Finance.