Professor Susan Albring's current research is focused on the extent to which firms forego tax benefits as a function of their ability to meet financial earnings targets and existing loan covenants. She is a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Prior to joining academe, Albring was a senior tax consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in New York City. Her work has appeared in the Journal of American Taxation Association, a publication for which she sits on the editorial board. She was recently nominated for the Ernst & Young Inclusive Excellence Award for Accounting and Business School Faculty.
Albring presented her research “The Value Relevance of a Non-GAAP Performance Metric to the Capital Markets” (co-authored with J. Reck and M. Caban-Garcia) at the most recent meeting of the American Accounting Association. In January 2009, she also presented “The Influence of Regulation Fair Disclosure on Firm Financing Decisions” (co-authored with M. Banyi, D. Dhaliwal, and R. Pereira), at the American Accounting Association Financial and Reporting Section conference. She was the recipient of both the Whitman School Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year award and the School of Accounting Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Teaching award at the Whitman School in 2004.