Teaching

Rating: 4.92 of 5.0

Summer 2018: University of Southern California

Selected Student Comments:

• "She was a really great professor and one of the best I have had yet at USC. Her main strengths were how caring she was about the students in the class and how much effort on her part was clearly put into the course and also her teaching style that engaged almost everyone in the class and made the difficult subject matter not seem so horrible. The content could be a bit dry but she always incorporated examples and ways to remember it easier and make the material more interesting."

• "Professor Ritter was able to use much less time to explain thoroughly the course, as well as adding more information about the accounting profession and examples through real–life and her own experience."

• "The Professor is incredibly easy to work with and teaches the material extremely effectively. I am glad she took time out of her day to teach our summer course!"

• "Professor Ritter is the best Professor I have ever had at USC so far. BUAD 280 is a very hard course and it is very hard to introduce these new accounting concepts to people with no prior knowledge of accounting, but she broke down the material in a way that made it as simple as possible to understand... Professor Ritter creates an atmosphere where you are not judged based on the questions you asked and even when someone is to fall behind in the class, she won't judge you on it and she will be helpful to help get you back on track."

• "She constantly kept us engaged through having us come to the board to answer questions. She handed out detailed worksheets with fill–in–the–blanks for note taking and note keeping purposes."

• "Thank you for the course. It was truly enjoyable."

Rating: 7.5 of 8.0

Spring 2014: University of Cincinnati

Selected Student Comments:

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ACCT 430 – Accounting Ethics

Instructor: Gregory Kling, Lecturer of Accounting at the University of Southern California

Graduate and undergraduate accounting students in the Leventhal school of accounting take this ethics course, which includes a guest lecture series. In the Spring and Fall of 2019, I was invited to share my professional and academic perspectives with these students as one of the guests for this lecture series.

As a guest lecturer, I developed 1.25 hours of material to share with the students, which I titled "Perspectives from the Other 99%.” Because the students typically hear from "famous" fraudsters (e.g., Andy Fastow) and whistleblowers (e.g., Cynthia Cooper) during this series, the content of the material I developed focuses on real-life ethical dilemmas I faced as a working professional, as well as, tips on how the students can maneuver their own future careers to avoid the extremely rare fraud situations they hear about from the other guest lecturers. I also discuss my own research projects as well as some other relevant academic research that they tend to find very exciting!

I've received positive feedback from this lecture, and I am honored to have been invited to continue sharing this material with the students taking this course in the future.

Selected Student Comments:

• "I really enjoyed the energy of our guest speaker."

• "Our guest speaker Stacey Ritter was absolutely amazing! I really enjoyed her lecture and thought she did a great job of speaking about her research as well as encouraging us to follow our passions in accounting."

• "In terms of the guest speaker, Stacey Ritter was my favorite speaker we’ve had so far... my favorite part of her talk, and perhaps the thing that has stuck with me the most so far in this class, is her point that we SHOULD in fact sweat the small stuff. When she used the example of using a friend’s Amazon account to get a $3.99 movie for free, it really hit me: I do small stuff like that all the time without thinking much of it. We think the small stuff is harmless, innocuous. It’s not like we’re committing overt financial statement fraud that will put us behind bars. However, her point is to practice building integrity with the so-called small stuff. Not only will it build our moral character (our character is really just a product of our daily choices, actions, and interactions), but it also signals to others that we’re not the type of person who will compromise our morals in tough situations. For whatever reason, this point really resonated with me, and I’m excited to start each day fresh, trying to bring the utmost morality and integrity to even the small stuff."

Deloitte ESR Training

When I was a 2nd-year consultant at Deloitte, I taught an introductory course to interns starting at Deloitte. This was my first experience teaching and I instantly knew that I wanted teaching to be a meaningful part of my career in the future!

ACCT 557 – Advanced Financial Statement Auditing Topics

Instructor: Clive Lennox, Professor of Accounting at the University of Southern California

Spring 2018 & Spring 2019

• Assisted in developing and facilitating two active learning sessions for the students

• Graded exams, homework, and group projects

• Mentored students interested in applying for PhD programs

Spring 2019 -- Mary Pickford Foundation Doctoral Teaching Award (USC)

Fall 2018 -- Marshall Ph.D. Teaching Award (USC)

Spring 2014 -- Dean’s List of Teaching Excellence (University of Cincinnati)