Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of stakeholders, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators. Practitioners of accounting are known as accountants. The terms "accounting" and "financial reporting" are often used interchangeably.
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is the title of qualified accountants in numerous countries in the English-speaking world. It is generally equivalent to the title of chartered accountant in other English-speaking countries. In the United States, the CPA is a license to provide accounting services to the public. It is awarded by each of the 50 states for practice in that state. Additionally, all states except Hawaii have passed mobility laws to allow CPAs from other states to practice in their state. State licensing requirements vary, but the minimum standard requirements include passing the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination, 150 semester units of college education, and one year of accounting-related experience.
The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is the graduate business school of Northwestern University, a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Kellogg is considered part of the M7, an informal network of business schools recognized as having elite MBA programs, regarded as among the most prestigious in the United States.
A financial endowment is a legal structure for managing, and in many cases indefinitely perpetuating, a pool of financial, real estate, or other investments for a specific purpose according to the will of its founders and donors. Endowments are often structured so that the inflation-adjusted principal or "corpus" value is kept intact, while a portion of the fund can be spent each year, utilizing a prudent spending policy.
The Weatherhead School of Management is a private business school of Case Western Reserve University located in Cleveland, Ohio. Weatherhead offers programs concentrated in sustainability, design innovation, healthcare, organizational behavior, global entrepreneurship, and executive education. The school is named for benefactor and Weatherchem owner Albert J. Weatherhead III, and its principal facility is the Peter B. Lewis Building.
The Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business is part of DePaul University's Driehaus College of Business, a business school located in the Chicago Loop, Illinois, United States. The Driehaus College of Business was founded in 1912 and is one of the ten oldest business schools in the U.S. The school is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business-International.
Robert Jay Swieringa was the ninth Dean and is a professor emeritus of the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He also served as an elected member to General Electric Company board of directors.
Dhananjay "Dan" Gode is a Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting, Taxation, and Business law at New York University Stern School of Business. He teaches courses in corporate financial accounting, and also teaches for the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program, an alliance of NYU Stern, the London School of Economics and HEC School of Management.
Bruce Dehning is an American professor and scholar who spent almost his entire career in the collegiate realm. He is known primarily for his work researching the effect of information technology (IT) on firm performance for which he is a two-time winner of the Notable Contribution to the Accounting Information Systems Literature award (with Vernon J. Richardson in 2006, and with Vernon J. Richardson and Robert W. Zmud in 2013. He has thirty two total refereed publications, including three premier publications, ten top tier publications, and thirteen impact factor publications. His published work has been cited more than 3,600 times, making him one of the top ten most cited Accounting Information Systems researchers in the world.
Michael Mikhail is Dean Emeritus of the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to assuming his role as dean in 2012, Mikhail was the KPMG Professor, and Director of the School of Accountancy at Arizona State University. At ASU, he was named a DC 100 Distinguished Scholar.
Lisa Koonce is the Deloitte and Touche endowed chair in accounting at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Koonce is particularly notable for her research contributions to decision-making processes in financial accounting and auditing.
Geoffrey (Geoff) Meeks is a British accounting scholar and Professor of Financial Accounting at the University of Cambridge, known for his work on M&A and on "Accounting standards and the economics of standards."
Robert "Bob" S. Kemp is a Ramon W. Breeden, Sr, Research Professor, Emeritus, in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for over 30 years. He is a respected member of the finance department faculty and is trusted in areas such as finance, pension funds, and financial statement analysis. His work has been published in The Australian Financial Review, Journal of Financial Research, Advances in Accounting, Benefits Quarterly, Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry, Journal of Accountancy, Journal of Commercial Bank Lending, The Journal of Bank Accounting and Auditing, and Journal of Business Economics.
Gary John Previts an American accountant, is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University. From 1979 to June 30, 2023 he was Professor of Accountancy in the Weatherhead School of Management teaching undergraduate, masters, and doctoral courses. He is known for his work on the history of the theory and practice of accountancy.
Michael Timothy Dugan is an accounting academic, currently serving as Professor of Accounting at Augusta University. He is noted for research contributions in the area of predictive ability and market-based archival research. Peers external to his home institution have recognized Dugan for teaching excellence.
Prem Nath Sikka, Baron Sikka is a British-Indian accountant and academic. He holds the position of Professor of Accounting at the University of Sheffield, and is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex.
Darren T. Roulstone is John W. Berry, Sr. Fund for Faculty Excellence Professor of Accounting at Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and has been director of its Accounting and Management Information Systems PhD program since 2008. His current research interests are textual analysis of firms’ financial disclosures and how investors acquire accounting information.
Dan Amiram is the Dean and the Joseph Safra Capital markets and Financial Institutions Chaired professor of Business at the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University. He also serves as the head of the Fintech concentration in the MBA program. He served and currently serves on public companies' board of directors in the United States and Israel.
Martin Glaum is a German economist and author and has held the Otto Beisheim Endowed Chair of International Accounting at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management since 2014. Before this he held the Chair of International Management, Accounting and Auditing at the University of Giessen in Giessen, Germany. Until 1999 he was a Professor of International Management at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder). He was born in Wetzlar, Germany.
Ahmed Rashad Abdel-khalik is an American scholar who was born in Egypt. He is the V. K. Zimmerman Professor of International Accounting, Professor of Accountancy, and Director of the V. K. Zimmerman Center for International Education and Research in Accounting at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
