Biography
Jessica Nylen, CPA earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from the University of Iowa, where she also worked as a graduate teaching assistant. Jessica then spent nine years working in the audit practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, performing audits of both public and private companies in the consumer and industrial products sector. During her last year at PwC, she held the role of a digital accelerator, helping audit teams leverage technology to automate processes and create efficiencies to ultimately improve the value, quality, and experience of the audit for both the auditor and the client. Jessica is an AICPA Accounting Doctoral Scholar with a focus in archival audit research.
Research
Selected Submitted Journal Articles
Nylen, J. & Wangerin, D. & Zehms, K. (2023). Key audit matter disclosures, uncertainty, and the relative success of M&A transactions The Accounting Review
Working Papers
Nylen, J. & Wangerin, D. & Zehms, K. (2023). Why are Key Audit Matter Disclosures Incrementally Informative Compared to Critical Audit Matter Disclosures?
Teaching
Undergraduate Courses
Audit and Assurance Services (AIS 630), Fall 2021.
Evolution of assurance services; role of assurance services as part of corporate governance; professional standards and ethical concepts; evidence concepts and evaluation of evidence, business and information technology risk analysis, the audit risk model, assurance reports, and development of audit and assurance programs.
Audit and Assurance Services (AIS 630), Spring 2022.
Evolution of assurance services; role of assurance services as part of corporate governance; professional standards and ethical concepts; evidence concepts and evaluation of evidence, business and information technology risk analysis, the audit risk model, assurance reports, and development of audit and assurance programs.
Introductory Financial Accounting (AIS 100), Spring 2021.
Examines generally accepted accounting principles for measurement and reporting of financial information in a balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows; introduction to analysis and interpretation of financial accounting data for decision-making purposes.
Introductory Financial Accounting (AIS 100), Fall 2020.
Examines generally accepted accounting principles for measurement and reporting of financial information in a balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows; introduction to analysis and interpretation of financial accounting data for decision-making purposes.