Bloch School of Management. She earned her Ph.D. in business administration with an emphasis on accounting at Oklahoma State University and her master of science in accountancy (M.S.A.) at the University of Arkansas. Smedley’s teaching emphases are in accounting systems, controls and advanced accounting systems topics. Her primary research interest is in the behavioral use of intelligent systems; she has also developed a number of accounting systems cases and has investigated aspects of XBRL usability and content.