- Department: Accounting
- University: North Carolina State University
- Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
I have been at NC State University since 2003. I am originally from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. After obtaining my undergrad degree in accounting and economics, I worked for Deloitte for about five years. In 1999, I started my PhD studies. I teach undergraduate classes in Assurance and Audit Services and my research focuses on professional skepticism, data analytics, and fraud detection. I live in Raleigh, NC with my wife Kyla Brazel and our two daughters Abby and Caroline. I have found my faith to grow slowly year by year. In my early years, I may have gone to church once a month. Later, I experienced God's love for us by saying a prayer every night. Now I pray to the Lord several times a day and take 15-20 minutes mid-day or after work to read the Bible and have a devotion. I put in God's hands the things I worried about in the past and I have more peace (and a lot less anxiety!) in my life now that I have found God.
Favorite Quote
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.' Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends describe me
Loud, sometimes opinionated, and somewhat serious
My hobbies
Flyfishing, Tennis, Mountain Biking, and Travel
Fantasy dinner guests
Abraham Lincoln, St. Paul, and Albert Einstein
Best advice I ever received
Stay till manager at Deloitte!
My undergrad alma mater
Muhlenberg College
My worst subject in school
The hard sciences
In college I drove
My feet
If I weren't a professor, I would
Be a retired FBI agent
Favorite books
Devil in the White City
Favorite movies
Goodfellas, about everything from Wes Anderson, and Star Wars Episodes 4 and 5
Favorite city
Florence, Italy
Favorite coffee
Cup of Joe Hillsborough St
Nobody knows I
Sometimes day dream when I am looking at my computer screen for too long a period of time and too late in the day!
My latest accomplishment
Being named a contributor at Forbes.com: https://www.forbes.com/sites/josephbrazel/?sh=30ca283f8738
Current Research
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=340465