Maria (Wieczynska) Rykaczewski is an assistant professor at the School of Accountancy at W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She joined ASU in 2013. Professor Rykaczewski researches international financial reporting issues. Her projects examine the effect of regulation, enforcement, and other country-level and exchange-specific features on the quality of financial reporting and auditing. In her work, she also looks at the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) with a focus on the costs and the effectiveness of implementing global reporting standards at the national level. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review and in Contemporary Accounting Research. A recent project by prof. Rykaczewski was highlighted in the Oxford Business Law Blog. In 2020, she received the Arizona CPA Foundation for Education and Innovation in Teaching Award for her teaching at ASU. Prior to joining ASU, professor Wieczynska completed her PhD at Emory University.