Dr. Ella Mae Matsumura is a professor in Business School’s Department of Accounting and Information Systems. Her research discusses (1) managerial accounting and monitoring, including cost and success assessment inside and through organisations, and compensation-related rewards, (2) sustainability reporting and accounting, and (3) audit quality. Professor Matsumura’s audit quality research explores manager-auditor interaction in fraud detection settings, the impact of second-partner analysis on information collection and decision-making by an engagement partner, and the effect of forecast accuracy on decision-making.

Professor Matsumura received the American Accounting Association’s Management Accounting Section’s Notable Contributions to Management Accounting Literature Award; in 2019, she received the Journal of Management Accounting Research (JMAR) Best Paper Award. Professor Matsumura is the co-author of Management Accounting: Decision-making information.

She has served on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and Issues in Accounting Education and currently serves on the editorial boards of Accounting Horizons, Management Accounting Research Journal, and Accounting Education Journal.

Professor Matsumura won several awards from the Wisconsin School of Business, including the 2002 Erwin A. Gaumnitz Distinguished Faculty Award and the 1996-97 Mabel W. Chipman Teaching Award. She earned a Ph.D. in Accounting and an M.S. in Management Science from British Columbia University. She earned her A.B. in mathematics from California-Berkeley University.