DEAR FELLOW ACCOUNTING LONGHORNS: I arrived on the 40 Acres in 1997 not thinking I would ever occupy the Department Chair’s Office, but here I am. I grew up on the East Coast and studied accounting as an undergraduate at… Continue Reading →
Patrick Badolato was recently awarded the University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business 2017-2018 Jim Nolen Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. Steve Kachelmeier was honored with the Referee of the Year Award by the Journal of Accounting Research in… Continue Reading →
Roughly 40 million U.S. borrowers have over $1 trillion in student loans, and 70% of undergrad students graduate with some amount of debt. Terri Holbrook, an accounting faculty member, and her husband, Ed Blechschmidt, started the Holbrook Scholar Program in… Continue Reading →
LALE GULER, CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FALL 2018 CLASSES: Intermediate Accounting in the BBA program PRIOR TEACHING POSITIONS: UT Dallas, Baruch College – City University of New York, Koç University RESEARCH INTERESTS: Corporate governance and managerial incentives EDUCATION: PhD, Texas A&M… Continue Reading →
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME? Ann Arbor, Michigan is where I was born and lived for most of my childhood. However, my wife’s hometown of Liverpool, England is my adopted hometown. I lived in Liverpool for ten years, our three… Continue Reading →
Nathan Sharp coauthored “Inside the ‘Black Box’ of Sell-Side Financial Analysts” with Lawrence Brown, Andrew Call, and our very own Department Chair, Michael Clement. The FARS (AAA) recently selected that paper as the best financial accounting paper published in the… Continue Reading →
AFTER 14 YEARS AS A LONGHORN, BECKI HENRY IS RETIRING ONE OF MY FAVORITE MEMORIES of working with Becki was decorating the office for the holidays in 2014. Becki’s enthusiasm and competitive spirit was in full force that year—she even… Continue Reading →
Texas McCombs was fortunate enough to have two Elijah Watt Sells Award winners in 2017: Hyungmin Kim and Maureen Sweet, both MPA Class of 2016 graduates. Let’s learn more about one of our winners, Maureen Sweet. Maureen Sweet exemplifies what… Continue Reading →
Dear Fellow Accounting Longhorns, Last fall, I reported that Deans Hartzell and Hirst initiated a review of the McCombs School’s strategic plan – including branding, classroom design, staffing, and curricula. Branding: The new brand was launched on Monday, November 13,… Continue Reading →
AUSTIN, Texas — The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) announced Michael Granof, professor at The University of Texas at Austin, as the recipient of the 2017 AICPA Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award. Granof holds a joint appointment at the… Continue Reading →
The Department of Accounting welcomed several new faculty members this year! Learn more about our newest professors and lecturers: Aysa Dordzhieva Aysa joins the department as an Assistant Professor after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Aysa Dordzhieva… Continue Reading →
Product Market Competition and Managerial Disclosure of Earnings Forecasts: Evidence from Import Tariff Rate Reductions Ying Huang (UT), Ross Jennings (UT) and Yong Yu (UT) The Accounting Review, May 2017, 92(3), pp. 185-207 Prior theoretical research in accounting concludes that… Continue Reading →
The University of Texas System Board of Regents named seven University of Texas at Austin faculty members as recipients of the 2017 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (ROTA). The awards are the Board of Regents’ highest honor and recognize faculty members… Continue Reading →
Kathy Saqer retired this year from McCombs after 24 years of guiding students as an academic advisor. An alumnus of The University of Texas at Austin, Kathy received her BA in Economics in 1991. We think this added to her… Continue Reading →
DEAR ACCOUNTING LONGHORNS: On May 20, we celebrated 106 years of UT accounting education at the 2017 MPA Commencement Ceremony. As always, our graduates richly deserve a great send off. For the past seven years, one or more UT students… Continue Reading →
Each year, students volunteer with the Community Tax Centers of Austin as part of the Tax Practicum course led by Brian Lendecky and J Kamas, lecturers in accounting. It’s often a life-changing experience for these students as they help low-income… Continue Reading →
It is with great sadness that we share the news of our friend and colleague Ken Brown passing away in November. Retired after thirty-eight years with EY and 28 years as an EY partner, Ken joined our faculty in August… Continue Reading →
On April 26, the Department of Accounting celebrated the long and distinguished career of accounting Professor Paul Newman. Retiring this year, he says goodbye to 30 years of teaching and over 40 years of being on The University of Texas… Continue Reading →
Congratulations to Kristina Zvinakis on her promotion to Senior Lecturer. This well-deserved promotion recognizes her tireless work for the Department of Accounting. In addition, Kristina was honored with the Outstanding Faculty Award at this year’s MPA Commencement. Several Faculty Members… Continue Reading →
Congratulations to PhD Student Prasart Jongjaroenkamol on his full-time faculty job at the Singapore Management University. The school specializes in business and management studies, modelling itself after the Wharton School. We hope he finds success educating a new crop of… Continue Reading →
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