Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Holbrook Scholarship awards! The fifteen Holbrook Scholars were selected from a combination of 3rd, 4th and 5th year integrated MPAs and traditional MPAs. This year’s recipients include: New Awards: Snowy Trowbridge Diva Gulati… Continue Reading →
by Steve Brooks Texas Enterprise October 10, 2016 Based on Brady Williams paper “Does Use Tax Evasion Provide a Competitive Advantage to E-tailers?” You’re shopping for an iPhone 7. You find it for the same price both at Best Buy… Continue Reading →
How Do Experienced Users Evaluate Hybrid Financial Instruments? Shana Clor-Proell (TCU), Lisa Koonce (UT) and Brian White (UT) Journal of Accounting Research, December 2016, 54(5), pp.1267-1296 Clor-Proell, Koonce & White conducted a study with McCombs alumni who had 20 years… Continue Reading →
Dr. Charles Henry Griffin, BBA ’42, MBA ’48 and PhD ’53, passed away on July 29, 2016. He began his career on the Texas Accounting faculty in 1962. A gifted educator, he was honored with the Jack G. Taylor Teaching… Continue Reading →
The Department of Accounting celebrated at a retirement dinner for friends, family and colleagues of Bill Kinney. Everyone came together to share stories about his impact on accounting research, teaching and auditing practice. … Continue Reading →
Dear Accounting Longhorns: I am composing this letter on the day of the spring BBA commencement and the day before MPA commencement. The faculty, newly minted graduates, and I take this opportunity to thank all our alumni for generously supporting… Continue Reading →
Professor Bill Kinney has led the development of research on auditing and related accounting phenomena for almost 50 years. During this time, he’s educated students and inspired colleagues with his passion for the accounting profession. In 1988, Bill Kinney joined… Continue Reading →
For the Department of Accounting, saying goodbye to Dr. Jim Deitrick after 39 years of teaching is bittersweet. His smiling face and passion for teaching will be missed. Jim Deitrick, currently the KPMG Faculty Fellow, has taught undergraduate, masters’ and… Continue Reading →
Last year we were excited to share that four of our students had earned the prestigious Elijah Watt Sells Award for 2014. The award is given to candidates who obtain a cumulative average score above 95.50 across all four sections… Continue Reading →
We are proud to announce that Maia Yang (MPA ‘ 16) has been offered a Postgraduate Technical Assistant (PTA) position with the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Beginning in July, Maia will gather firsthand experience in how governmental standards are… Continue Reading →
MPA students are more than just future accountants. Our students work hard and have well-rounded lives, including athletic endeavors. From varsity level competitors, to dedicated amateur athletes, students represent the accounting profession across the campus and city of Austin. Imani… Continue Reading →
Jerome Kern (BBA ’96, MPA ’96) was named vice president and chief financial officer of Flexi-Van Leasing, a lessor of specialized equipment for the intermodal transportation industry. Anna Tchernina (BBA ’99, MPA ’99) is Facebook’s Internal Audit Director. After completing… Continue Reading →
Accounting doctoral student Brian Monsen, Ph.D. ’18, was named a 2016 Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellow. Monsen will receive a $25,000 grant from the organization to support his final year of coursework and the subsequent year to complete his doctoral dissertation…. Continue Reading →
Ph.D. student Shannon Chen was recently selected to receive the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) research award. This award is administered through the McCombs Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and open to any doctoral student with… Continue Reading →
Eric Chan Wins Best Paper Award New Assistant Professor, Eric Chan, won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting for his solo-authored paper, “Promotion, Relative Performance Information, and the Peter Principle.” This paper served as… Continue Reading →
Lecturer Gretchen Charrier knew she was going to win the Professor of the Semester for Fall 2015 when she attended President Fenves’ Women of Excellence Reception, but imagine her surprise when she was also handed the Professor of the Year… Continue Reading →
After 27 years on the faculty teaching financial reporting in our MPA, MBA, BBA, and PhD programs and conducting capital markets research with our faculty and doctoral students, I have landed in a foreign world. It’s called the office of… Continue Reading →
A major strength of our program is our high-quality students. Our graduate students in particular come from a large variety of backgrounds, ready to immerse themselves in everything accounting. Meet a few of our current MPA students: Charles Walper, MPA… Continue Reading →
Brady Williams, assistant professor, teaching Introduction to Taxation (ACC 355) in the spring What attracted you to the position at McCombs? On my visit to McCombs in late February, while doing my PhD at the University of Washington, I got… Continue Reading →
Czerney, K., A. Thompson, & J. Schmidt. 2014. Does Auditor Explanatory Language in Unqualified Audit Reports Indicate Increased Financial Misstatement Risk? The Accounting Review 89 (6): 2115-2149. Auditors play an important role in the capital markets by providing reasonable assurance… Continue Reading →
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