Kris Brands – Assistant Professor of Accounting in the College for Professional Studies, Regis University

Kristine Brands is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Regis University in the School of Management. She has extensive work experience in finance, accounting, controllership, auditing, software engineering, and financial systems design and implementation.  She holds the CPA and CMA certificates.  Her research interest areas are performance measurement, International Financial Reporting Standards, and XBRL and interactive data. She serves on the    Board of Directors of the Institute of Management Accountants and is a member of IMA’s XBRL Standing Committee and COSO Advisory Committee.  Kris has authored numerous articles about XBRL for Strategic Finance, Accountancy Age and others. She holds a BA in History from the University of Rochester, an MBA in Accounting from Emory University, and a Certificate in Applied Science in Software Engineering from Harvard University Extension. She is ABD at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Colorado Technical University.