Rachel Cox

Rachel Cox joined the faculty as Instructor of Professional Practice in the School of Accounting at OSU in 2017 after spending 5 years working as a CPA in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She graduated from Oklahoma State with both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Accounting in 2012. After graduating, she passed the CPA and spent 4 years working as an auditor at Ernst & Young LLP (EY) in Tulsa. At EY, Rachel worked on the financial statement audits of some of the largest oil & gas companies in Oklahoma. She also spent a year and a half working as a CPA for BOK Financial in Tulsa as a Commercial Portfolio Reporting Specialist in the bank's Credit Administration division. At BOKF, Rachel prepared financial reports related to the bank's  loan loss allowance, nonaccrual loans, and past-due loans for BOKF's Credit Committee and various regulators. Rachel still maintains her CPA license in the state of Oklahoma.

Rachel is now in her 10th year as a career-track accounting professor at OSU. At OSU, Rachel serves as the Coordinator of the Accounting Program at the OSU-Tulsa campus. She also serves as the Undergraduate Accounting Program coordinator for the OSU-Stillwater campus. She is the faculty advisor for Student CPT, an ethics student organization at OSU-Stillwater, and founded Tulsa Accounting Scholars, another student organization at OSU-Tulsa that connects employers and students. Rachel is a Spears Teaching Fellow and has a Business Ethics Teaching Fellowship. She chairs the scholarship and awards process for the School of Accounting on both campuses. Since 2019, Rachel has fully developed 4 separate three-credit accounting courses fully online for the department. She primarily teaches Intermediate Accounting & Data Analysis, Ethics, Practicum in Professional Accounting II, and Auditing courses now, but has taught Financial Accounting and Foundational Accounting Skills in the past. Outside of OSU, Rachel also serves as the Treasurer on the Board of Directors at Cornerstone Church in Tulsa.