Jessica Evanko, Ph.D., CPA, graduated from King’s College with a degree in accounting. After graduation, she worked for PwC in the Florham Park, New Jersey, office. Her line of service was corporate tax, which included experience in tax audits and tax compliance of multinational corporations in a variety of industries. Dr. Evanko joined King’s College and the accounting faculty in 2018 and has taught a wide range of courses including Introduction to Financial Accounting, Introduction to Management Accounting and Planning, Intermediate Accounting I, II, and III, Tax Accounting, and Federal Taxation. She graduated from the University of Scranton with a Ph.D. in Accounting. She currently serves as the faculty advisor to Beta Gamma Sigma and the Student Government Association Executive Board.
Outside of King’s College, she is the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors at the Cross Valley Federal Credit Union. She previously served as a Board of Director to the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs (PICPA) as well as the Pennsylvania CPA Foundation. She maintains an active Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license.
Education
B.S.B.A., Accounting, King's College
M.B.A., Accounting, Capella University
Ph.D., Accounting, University of Scranton
Publications
Falgout, S., Evanko, J. L. & Boyle, D. M. (2022). Will You Be Ready If the SEC Comes Knocking? Strategic Finance, 50-56
Hildebrand, J. L. & Sunday, J. W. (2022). Get Ready Now for the New CPA Exam in 2024. Pennsylvania CPA Journal, 93(3), 22-23
Hildebrand, J. L., Stampone, A. L., & Boyle, D. M. (2020). Creating Sustainable Stakeholder Value. Internal Auditing, 35(2), 23-29
Hildebrand, J. L. (2020). Upskilling Is the Path Forward for Emerging CPAs. Pennsylvania CPA Journal, 91(3), 22-23
Awards and Designations
Certificate of Merit for “SEC Enforcement and Remediation Efforts,” Lybrand Awards for Strategic Finance and Management Accounting Quarterly (2023)
Douglas M. Boyle DBA Outstanding Research Award, University of Scranton (2021)
Collegiate Partner of the Year Award, tecBRIDGE (2020)
PICPA Young Leader Award, Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (2020)
