Francine McKenna

Francine McKenna is an American journalist, blogger, and columnist. She is the editor and founder of re: The Auditors.com, which the author of a business ethics textbook considers "should be on every corporate accountant and CPAs watchlist."[2] She has documented major auditing firms' failures to identify problems in the accounting of international financial corporations.

Francine McKenna
Born
Chicago, U.S.
EducationPurdue University (BS)
Harvard University
University of Chicago (MLA)[1]
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • author
  • anchor
Years active2006–present
WebsiteWebsite

Education

McKenna went to Purdue University for her undergraduate degree in Management, Accounting and Economics. She later received an executive Education certificate from Harvard University, and more recently studied at the University of Chicago for a master's degree in liberal arts.

Career

McKenna began her career with various positions in accounting and financial management before a career in professional services and began her career as an internal auditor at Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust in Chicago. After this she moved to the consulting and professional services environment. McKenna directed the projects for JP Morgan in Latin America and was the Managing Director for BearingPoint in Latin America, responsible for the Industrial, Automotive and Transportation practice. She also worked for KPMG as a managing director in Latin America,[3][4] Jefferson Wells as a regional vice president[4] and as a director for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

McKenna's journalism career began with her blog re: TheAuditors.com, which monitors and reports on public accounting firms.[2] Her blog was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Online Commentary and Blogging in 2010, the first year of that category;[5] as a Reuters journalist noted, McKenna was "the only full-time blogger on the list, and she’s also the only one of the nominees who is truly independent: her nomination, uniquely of the four, was not submitted on her behalf by an established print publication."[6] She later had a column at Forbes.com under the heading “Accounting Watchdog”, where, in 2011, she documented PriceWaterhouseCoopers' failure to identify problems with the bankrupt global commodities brokerage firm MF Global.[7] She was a columnist at American Banker, “Accountable”, from October 2011 to October 2012, where she also wrote about auditing firms' failures to thoroughly audit financial organisations.[8] She currently works as the transparency reporter at MarketWatch in addition to her blogging work with re: TheAuditors.com, and also teaches at American University.

Career timeline

References
  1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/francinemckenna/
  2. Arbogast, Stephen V. (2013). Resisting Corporate Corruption: Cases in Practical Ethics From Enron Through The Financial Crisis. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118659076. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. "People". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 21 October 2001. p. 2, section 5. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  4. "People". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 12 May 2002. p. 9, section 5. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  5. Taylor, Mike (25 May 2010). "Loeb Awards Finalists Announced; NYT Editor Gets Lifetime Achievement Award". Adweek. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  6. Salmon, Felix (26 May 2010). "When a blogging award isn't for blogging". Reuters. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  7. Ee, Chong (2013). Turning Heads and Changing Minds: Transcending IT Auditor Archetypes. IT Governance Ltd. pp. 101–102. ISBN 9781849284752. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  8. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection (2015). Examining the GAO Report on Expectations of Government Support for Bank Holding Companies: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, Second Session, on Examining Whether the Era of Too Big to Fail is Finally Over, July 31, 2014. U.S. Government Publishing Office. p. 162. Retrieved 16 March 2019.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. "re: The Auditors » About Francine McKenna".
  10. McKenna, Francine; McKenna, Francine. "Accounting Watchdog". Forbes.
  11. "Francine McKenna". American Banker.
  12. "Francine McKenna". MarketWatch.
  13. "Faculty Profile: Francine McKenna". American University.
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