Scott is an auditing researcher whose work focuses on how financial regulation impacts the reporting decisions of companies and their auditors, and his work appears in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Scott is on the editorial board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. Prior to joining the KU faculty, Scott was an assistant professor in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He earned his PhD from the University of Tennessee.