Zoe-Vonna Palmrose

Zoe-Vonna Palmrose is a Professor Emeritus of Accounting at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and faculty at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. In 2019, Palmrose was selected for the American Accounting Association's Accounting Hall of Fame. According to the AAA's biography, Palmrose "has published and spoken extensively on a variety of issues related to the quality of financial reporting and auditing" and she "is recognized as an expert in translating the complexities and jargon of accounting into plain English for general audiences." She was one of eight children. Her father was a doctor and her mother was a nurse.

Career Palmrose worked for Haskins & Sells in Portland, Oregon from 1968 to 1970. at Portland State University in 1969.

In 2011, Palmrose joined the faculty at the University of Washington.

In 2006, Palmrose was awarded the Dean's Award Research Excellence from American Accounting Association/Deloitte Wildman Medal. In 2003, Palmrose was awarded the American Accounting Association/Deloitte Wildman Medal, as well as the Auditing Section’s Distinguished Service Award