Francine McKenna is a Lecturer at The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania. McKenna is also an award-winning writer and teacher who migrated to investigative journalism after a career in the public accounting industry. She now teaches full-time, writes, and comments on accounting, audit, internal audit and corporate governance issues and challenges at public and pre-IPO private companies. Her work has been cited in testimony before the U.S. Congress and in comment letters to regulators as well as cited in other academics research with respect to these topics. She authors the newsletter, The Dig.