Education
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
Amherst
M.B.A., University of Washington
B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst
Areas of Expertise
Financial Accounting and Auditing
Background
1992-present Associate Professor,
University of Massachusetts Boston
January 1999 Staff Accountant, Vitale, Caturano & Company
1989-1992 Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts
Lowell
1985-1989 Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
1978-1979 Instructor, Accounting Department, University of
Lowell
1976-1978 Senior Accountant, Deloitte Haskins & Sells
1970-1972 US Air Force supply officer, Eglin AFB, Florida.
Courses Taught
Principles of Accounting Intermediate
Accounting, Financial Accounting Theory, Accounting Information
Systems, Financial Auditing, Comptrollership, and Not-For-Profit
Accounting
Research Interests
Financial Accounting. Practioner
issues involving the supply of accountants, performance on
the CPA Exam, and the proposed computerized CPA Exam.
Selected Publications
"Laborers Local 829 Health
and Welfare Plan: Testing Investments and Receivables"
Issues in Accounting Education,
Volume 16, Number 4 (November 2001). Coauthors: James Bierstaker
and William Seltz, UMASS Boston.
"Computerizing the CPA Exam", The
CPA Review, an online publication of the Massachusetts Society
of Certified Public Accountants,
Fall 2001.
"Student Perceptions of Business Career Attributes by
Functional Area of Study" Massachusetts
CPA Review, Web page of
the Massachusetts Society
of Certified Public Accountants,
November 2000. Coauthors: Pat Doherty,Boston University, and
John A Armstrong, Nichols College.
"Accounting Curricula at Massachusetts Colleges and Universities"
Massachusetts CPA Review,
Web page of the Massachusetts
Society of Certified Public Accountants,
June 1999. Coauthors: Barbara Ann Hogan and Ted Wood, Gordon
College.
"Impact of Performance Plans on Market Reaction to Takeover
Bids," Southern Business
and Economic Journal (Volume
19, Number 1; October 1995. pages 46-66) with Robert M. Brown,
Virginia Tech and Parvez R Sopariwala, Grand Valley State
University.
"Relieving the Burden of EPS Reporting: Some Practical
Suggestions," The CPA
Journal (New York), March
1991, pp 50-54 with R. David Mautz, Virginia Tech.
"The Educational Impact of Including Student-Designed
Templates in Intermediate Accounting," Kent/Bentley
Journal of Accounting and Computers,
Fall 1991, pp. 19-35 with Cherie O'Neil, University of South
Florida.
"Earnings Per Share Reporting: Time for an Overhaul?,"
Accounting Horizons September
1989, pp. 21-27, with R. David Mautz (Virginia Tech).
This article has been reprinted and included in
Accounting Theory by Richard
G. Schroeder, Myrtle Clark and Lewis D. McCullers, John Wiley
& Sons publishers, fourth and fifth editions. It has also
been reprinted in Readings
in Financial Accounting: Theory, Issues and Controversies
by Stephen Zeff and Bala Dharan, McGraw Hill, fourth edition,
1993.
Professional Activities
Licensed Certified Public Accountant,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Board of Directors, Massachusetts Society of Certified Public
Accountants, 2000-2003; Microcomputer Committee, Relations
with Educators Committee
Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants Educational
Foundation, 1999-2002
Member of American Accounting Association, American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants, Beta Alpha Psi, Beta Gamma
Sigma, Alpha Kappa Psi
Honors
Joan Moon Award for Teaching Excellence, 2002
Delta Sigma Pi, Professional Business Fraternity at UMass
Boston, Appreciation Award, 2003
Included in the University of Massachusetts Annual Faculty
Appreciation Dinner, 2002, 2003
Nominated and selected for the sixth edition of Who's Who
Among America's Teachers 2000, nominated 2002.
American Accounting Association Doctoral Scholarship Recipient
and Doctoral Consortium Fellow.
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