Dana Hermanson

Professor, Dinos Eminent Scholar Chair of Private Enterprise
Director of Research, Corporate Governance Group
Accounting

Dana R. Hermanson is Dinos Eminent Scholar Chair of Private Enterprise and Professor of Accounting at Kennesaw State University. He is one of the highest ranked researchers in the BYU Accounting Research Rankings from 1990 - present. Dana received the 2020 Outstanding Auditing Educator Award from the American Accounting Association. He worked with David Wolfe to introduce the Fraud Diamond as a new model to explain fraud, and he has coauthored two COSO-sponsored studies of fraudulent financial reporting. Dana’s letters to the editor often appear in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Marietta Daily Journal.