Mark H. Taylor is the Director of the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy in the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida where he holds the Dan and Tina Johnson Endowed Directorship in Accountancy. Mark earned his PhD from the University of Arizona and his MAcc and B.S. in Accountancy from BYU. He teaches in the auditing and assurance services and corporate governance areas. In Spring 2021, Mark received USF's outstanding research achievement award. In August 2020, Mark concluded service as Vice-President, Finance of the American Accounting Association (AAA). He previously served as the President of the AAA's Auditing Section. Mark has published widely addressing issues in accounting and auditing in leading academic and professional journals including The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Organizations & Society, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Horizons, Behavioral Research in Accounting, The International Journal of Accounting, The International Journal of Auditing, Journal of Forensic Accounting, and Journal of Accountancy,among others. Professor Taylor is a member of two different teams of co-authors on two research projects previously sponsored by the Center for Audit Quality. Mark served a three-year term on the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and fulfilled a one-year term as an Academic Fellow in the Professional Practice Group of the Office of the Chief Accountant at the headquarters of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington D.C. Mark also received 2018 Educator of the Year Award from the Ohio Region of the AAA, and in 2015 he received the Business Information Professional of the Year Award-Education from the National Chapter of the Accounting Honorary Society Beta Alpha Psi. Mark is an avid cyclist and instrument-rated private pilot.