Prior to going to Georgia State she taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Wake Forest University. Audrey received her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 1995. Her research interests are in auditing. She has done studies in the areas of fraudulent financial reporting, the influence of attestation on users' perceptions, the contributions of internal audit as a determinant of external audit fees, external auditors' reliance on the work performed by internal auditors, and the impact of legal liability regimes on auditor effort decisions. Her publications appear in the top auditing research journals including the Journal of Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and The International Journal of Auditing.