Francine McKenna is a Lecturer at The University of Pennsylvania Wharton Business School. She is also an independent writer and commentator and authors the newsletter The Dig, where she scrutinizes accounting, audit and corporate governance issues at public and pre-IPO companies. McKenna's investigative reporting, feature writing, and OpEds have appeared in Dow Jones MarketWatch, The Financial Times, Chicago Booth Review, the Pro-Market blog of The Stigler Center, and Boston Review where she focuses on public company accounting, fraud and financial investigations. Her column “Accounting Watchdog” ran at Forbes and the column “Accountable” at American Banker. Prior to journalism, McKenna spent 20 years in public accounting and consulting, including as a Managing Director for KPMG LLP/BearingPoint — she was BearingPoint’s first female LatAm Managing Director. She led the LatAm Y2K Project for JPMorgan and audited PwC itself in the post-SOx era as a Director. She began at Chicago’s Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust.