Natalie Churyk
PwC Professor of Accountancy
Department
Education
- Ph.D., University of South Carolina, accounting
- M.B.A., California State University - Long Beach, finance
- B.S., California State University - Long Beach, accounting
Awards
- AAA TLC Best Paper Award sponsored by EY, 2025
- AAA GIWB Mentoring Award sponsored by KPMG, 2025
- AAA GIWB Best Paper Award sponsored by KPMG, 2023
- AAA TLC Best Paper Award sponsored by EY Foundation, 2022
- ICPAS (Illinois CPA Society) Outstanding Educator Award, 2022
- AAA TLC Section Hall of Honor Award sponsored by KPMG Foundation, 2021
Teaching Areas
- Financial reporting
- Accounting research
Research Interests
- Financial reporting
- Auditing
- Fraud
- Accounting education
Biography
Natalie T. Churyk, Ph.D., CPA is the PwC professor of accountancy at Northern Illinois University (NIU) and the senior editor of Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations i. She joined NIU in 2001 after her doctoral studies. Besides her senior editor role, significant service includes:
- President-elect – AAA GIWB Section (2026-2027)
- Vice president - Education, AAA (2023-2026)
- Chair, AAA Education Committee (2023 -2026)
- Member, AICPA - CIMA Academic Executive Committee (2023-2026)
- Editor-in-Chief – Journal of Accounting Education (2015–2025)
- Past-president/president/president-elect, AAA GIWB Section (2019–2022)
- AAA Council (2016–2019) and (2023-2026)
- President, AAA TLC Section (2016-2018)
- Vice president, AAA TLC Section (2014–2016)
- Co-president of the AAA Midwest Region (prior acting president and vice president) (2013-2015)
- Treasurer of AAA TLC (2009–2013)
- Chair/co-chair – the TLC, FIA, and Midwest sections/region Membership Acquisition and Retention committees over the periods 2008-2012
- Member, AAA National Membership Committee (2011-2014)
- Member, AAA Regions Strategic/Pilot Task Force (now known as Strategic Leader Region Committee) (2012–2017)
Churyk has received research grants from AICPA/CIMA, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Institute of Management Accountants, and her university. She has also been awarded multiple research, teaching innovation and service awards from her university, AAA sections/regions, North American Accounting Society, Strategic Finance and the AICPA. Her most recent honors include: 2025 EY Foundation sponsored AAA TLC Best Paper Award, KPMG sponsored AAA GIWB Mentoring Award, KPMG sponsored, AAA GIWB Best Paper Award, 2022 EY Foundation sponsored AAA TLC Best Paper Award, 2022 ICPAS Outstanding Educator Award, 2021 KPMG Foundation sponsored AAA TLC Section Hall of Honor Award, 2020 North American Accounting Society Distinguished Paper Award, 2019 NIU Accountancy Department Outstanding Research Award, 2019 AAA Forensic Accounting Section Best Teaching Innovation Award.
Churyk’s research contributes to topics in financial reporting, fraud/ethics, education and auditing. She has over 170 conference presentations including 20 keynote/plenary speeches and 24 panel presentations. She has amassed over 60 publications in academic and professional journals such as:
- Journal of Business Research
- Studies in Higher Education
- Issues in Accounting Education
- Journal of Accounting Education
- Journal of Forensic Accounting Research
- Strategic Finance
- CPA Journal
- Journal of Accountancy
- Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting
- Advances in Accounting Education
- Global Perspectives on Accounting Education
- Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research
She is a co-author on three textbooks published by John Wiley & Sons: Accounting and Auditing Research: Tools and Strategies, Mastering the FASB’s Codification and eIFRS: A Case Approach, and Accounting & Auditing Research and Databases: Practitioner’s Desk Reference. For over 10 years, she was actively involved in developing and delivering CPA Exam Review seminars for NIU and contributed for five years to the Wiley CPA Exam Review: Financial Accounting and Reporting text.
