Maria Rykaczewski

Maria (Wieczynska) Rykaczewski is a clinical associate professor at the School of Accountancy at W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She joined ASU in 2013. Professor Rykaczewski researches international financial reporting issues. Her projects examine the effect of regulation, enforcement, and other country-level and exchange-specific features on the quality of financial reporting and auditing. In her work, she also looks at the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) with a focus on the costs and the effectiveness of implementing global reporting standards at the national level. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, the International Journal of Accounting, and the Journal of International Accounting Research. Her project was also highlighted in the Oxford Business Law Blog. She received multiple teaching awards and excellence in reviewing awards. She also co-chaired the Deloitte Trueblood Seminar for Professors and the International Accounting Section Midyear Meeting conferences. Before joining ASU, Professor Rykaczewski completed her PhD at Emory University.