Andrew Jones
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Andrew Jones, a third-year Ph.D. student in the accounting doctoral program at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, has been awarded a $25,000 Doctoral Fellowship by the Deloitte Foundation.
In an effort to help strengthen the pipeline of accounting faculty who are preparing the next generation of business leaders, Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship awards are given annually to 10 top accounting Ph.D. candidates across the U.S.
Given to students who plan to pursue academic careers upon graduation, the award is intended to help cover expenses during the recipients’ final year of coursework and the subsequent year to complete their doctoral dissertation.
“I am very grateful and honored to receive the Deloitte Foundation fellowship,” Jones said. “This fellowship will help me pursue my goal of becoming an accounting professor who can help improve the accounting profession through my research, my teaching, and my service.”
Sonja Rego
“Congratulations to Andrew on receiving this award from the Deloitte Foundation,” added Sonja Rego, professor and chairperson of accounting and the KPMG Professor. “This award is given each year to promising doctoral student accounting scholars in the U.S., and Andrew is much deserving. He joins Kelley’s proud legacy.”
Over the last 10 years, the accounting doctoral program at Kelley has had other Deloitte Foundation fellowship recipients, including Eric Holzman, 2015 recipient who today is an assistant professor of accounting at Kelley after being on the faculty at Ohio State; Jessica Watkins, a 2017 recipient now teaching at the University of Notre Dame; Anish Sharma, a 2021 recipient now at the University of Georgia; and Jones (2024).
Each year, accounting doctoral students from more than 100 universities are invited to apply for the fellowship. A selection committee composed of eminent accounting educators chose this year’s recipients who were nominated by accounting faculty at their school. Since inception, the program has supported nearly 1,200 Ph.Ds.
“The Foundation invests in student, educator, and school success to help prepare the next generation for the jobs of tomorrow,” said Erin Scanlon, Deloitte Foundation president. “Supporting the selected Ph.D. candidates during the last phase of their academic studies is one way the Foundation can help strengthen the pipeline of accounting professors who are helping to prepare students for the future of work.”
A certified public accountant, Jones received a master’s in business from Kelley in 2023 and earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Indiana State University in 2015. He expects to complete his Ph.D. in 2026. Before attending Kelley, he served as a quality assurance officer for the Indiana State Board of Accounts, was a grants accountant for Eskenazi Health and an audit staff accountant at Greenwalt CPAs Inc.
He previously received the Dean’s Fellowship, the Robert James Waller Doctoral Fellowship and the Samuel Frumer Research Fellowship to support his studies at Kelley.
As a doctoral candidate, Jones’ research interests include auditor judgment and decision-making, audit quality, artificial intelligence influences on auditor judgment and decision-making, accounting fraud and auditor fraud Detection and corporate governance.
About the Deloitte Foundation
The Deloitte Foundation, founded in 1928, is a not-for-profit organization that supports education in the U.S. through a variety of initiatives that help develop the next generation of diverse business leaders, and their influencers, and promote excellence in teaching, research and curriculum innovation. The Foundation sponsors an array of national programs relevant to a variety of professional services, benefiting high school students, undergraduates, graduate students and educators. Learn more about the Deloitte Foundation.