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FACULTY PANEL

REGISTER: MPA Faculty Panel

March 14, 2024 / / 0 Comments

The Master in Professional Accounting (MPA) program at Texas McCombs has world-renowned faculty that teach a wide variety of accounting courses and infuse the curriculum with cutting-edge ideas. Learn more by joining us for our virtual Faculty Panel!

The faculty panelists will provide an inside look at the MPA program’s curriculum, share details about the courses they teach, and discuss how earning an MPA degree from UT Austin will set you up for success in the workforce.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Event Details:

  • Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024
  • Time: 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. CT
  • Location: Virtual Event (Link will be provided upon registration)

Register Now!

 

Meet the Faculty Panelists

Megan Allen

Megan Allen
Financial Accounting
Tax

Megan has prepared hundreds of tax returns for individuals, corporations, S corporations, partnerships, trusts, and estates. She has reconciled bookkeeping and bank accounts for businesses and has represented clients before the IRS.

 

Daniel Fannin

Daniel Fannin
Managerial Accounting
Financial Accounting

Daniel is a certified fraud examiner, a certified anti-money-laundering specialist, a state-licensed private investigator, and a CPA. He has extensive experience analyzing financial records, interviewing witnesses, and testifying in court.

 

Zach Kowaleski

Zach Kowaleski 
Auditing and Assurance 

Zach studies the effect of the institutional setting on behavior using the audit and broker-dealer settings. His work has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Financial Economics

FACULTY PANEL

REGISTER: MPA Faculty Panel

October 16, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Are you ready to take the next step in your professional accounting career? The Master in Professional Accounting (MPA) program at Texas McCombs has world-renowned faculty that teach a wide variety of accounting courses and infuse the curriculum with cutting-edge ideas. Join us on Thursday, October 26, 2023, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. CT for our virtual Faculty Panel!

Meet the Experts: Connect with esteemed professors who bring a wealth of real-world knowledge to the classroom.

Curriculum Insights: Wondering what you’ll learn during your time at Texas McCombs? The faculty will provide an inside look at the MPA program’s curriculum, sharing details about the courses they teach and their relevance to the ever-evolving field of professional accounting.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights from our Texas McCombs MPA faculty. Register today and take the first step towards a brighter future in professional accounting. We look forward to seeing you there!

Event Details:

  • Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023
  • Time: 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. CT
  • Location: Virtual Event (Link will be provided upon registration)

Register Here

Meet the Panelists:

DonnaDonna Johnston-Blair received her Honours B.A. and M.B.A. from The University of Toronto.  She worked for Arthur Andersen & Co, Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Storage Technology, Inc. She has taught at U of Houston, SMU and Santa Clara University.  She currently works for a private wealth management firm in Palo Alto.

 

 

 

John John McInnis received his PhD from the University of Iowa and his BBA and MPA from the University of Texas. He teaches financial accounting in the MPA program. Professor McInnis has published articles in top scholarly journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Finance, Management Science, and Journal of Accounting & Economics.

 

 

Lisa

Lisa Koonce, Deloitte and Touche Endowed Chair in Accounting, received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Her research and teaching interests include the judgment and decision making implications of financial reporting.

REGISTER: Attend the Virtual MPA Faculty Open House

March 14, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Join us virtually on March 23 for the Master in Professional Accounting Faculty Open House as members of the MPA faculty will be present to speak about the courses they teach, the curriculum taught within the program, and career opportunities in their areas of expertise.

March 23 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. CT (virtual)

Please feel free to join the Faculty Open House for all two hours or you can join during the time(s) you’d like to hear from certain professors (see below).

Professors Who Will Be Present from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. CT

Patrick Badolato
Financial Statement Analysis Course and Investment Banking/Consulting Topics

Patrick Badolato’s teaching expertise focuses on Financial Statement Analysis, a case-based class that moves away from generic ratios and metrics and towards critical thinking in an effort to use an array of financial information to understand the past and form well-motivated predictions for the future; Financial Accounting, a class that emphasizes the importance of accounting’s thoughtful and logical representation of business events; and Accounting Concepts and Research, a class that offers a deep dive into the business reasons and economic motivations behind accounting standards.

Jeff Johanns
Audit/Assurance and Its Importance in Financial Reporting

Jeff Johanns is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin. He is a former U.S. Assurance Risk Management Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Texas with more than 30 years of experience in public accounting and the private industry. His clients at PwC ranged in size from Fortune 500 public companies to private start-ups.

Donna Johnston-Blair
Corporate Tax Course and Building a Portfolio of Tax Knowledge

Donna Johnston-Blair started her career at Arthur Andersen (in both Toronto and Denver) as audit staff and eventually became a tax manager. She also worked at Deloitte and Storage Technology Corporation before starting her own consulting practice and ultimately becoming a professor. She has taught across the United States and has been at McCombs since 2013. Donna was named a Texas Ten professor of the year in 2018.

Professors Who Will Be Present from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. CT

Jeff Hales
Environmental, Social, and Governance Course

Jeff Hales has taught financial accounting at all levels, and his research has appeared in multiple journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and more. He is currently an editor at Contemporary Accounting Research and an editorial board member of The Accounting Review and Accounting, Organizations and Society. He also serves as Chair of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, is a member of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board, and is a member of both the Financial Accounting Standard Board’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council and the UK Financial Reporting Council’s Future of Corporate Reporting Advisory Group.

Nick Hallman
Analytics Course

Nick Hallman is an Associate Professor at the McCombs School of Business with a focus in audit. He received his PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia and is a member of the editorial board for both The Accounting Review and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. This fall, he will teaching a data analytics course at UT Austin tailored specifically for Master in Professional Accounting students.

Mallary Tenore
Writing Skills Course

Mallary Tenore is a lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism. She’s also the Associate Director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at UT Austin. In 2013, she was named one of the top 50 female innovators in digital journalism. Mallary’s articles and essays have been published in The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, Austin Moms Blog and more. She will teaching a writing skills course for Master in Professional Accounting students in the fall of 2022.

Sign up to meet these professors and explore the classes you can take as an MPA students! We’ll see you on March 23!

Register for the Upcoming MPA Faculty Panel

October 25, 2021 / / 0 Comments

Discover more about earning your Master in Professional Accounting degree by meeting the faculty who teach in the program at our upcoming webinar on Thursday, October 28 from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. CT.

Join us at the Master in Professional Accounting (MPA) Faculty Panel to meet Professors Gretchen Charrier, Steve Goodson, Donna Johnston-Blair, and John McInnis. You’ll hear about their backgrounds and why accounting is such an important facet of business, as well as get your questions answered on the MPA curriculum, the classes they teach, and what life is like in the program. The panel will be facilitated by Program Director Kristina Zvinakis.

We hope to see you there!

Thursday, October 28 from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. CT – REGISTER

Gretchen CharrierGRETCHEN CHARRIER
Fall 2021 Class: Governmental Accounting

Gretchen earned her bachelor’s in accounting at the University of Kentucky and is an alum of our very own MPA program here at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to pursuing her MPA degree, Gretchen worked with KPMG and PwC. She has been teaching at the McCombs School of Business since 1997.

 

Stephen GoodsonSTEVE GOODSON
Fall 2021 Class: Internal Auditing and Control

Steve has worked as audit and quality assurance staff and as a consultant for companies ranging from the Texas Department of Public Safety to the National Football League. Before coming to Texas McCombs, he was the Chief Internal Auditor for the University of North Texas and has been teaching in the MPA program since 2016.

 

Donna Johnston-BlairDONNA JOHNSTON-BLAIR
Spring 2022 Classes: Tax Practicum & Taxation of Entities

Donna earned her MBA from the University of Toronto and is CPA certified in California, Colorado, and Texas. After working in public accounting as a tax manager, she started her own tax consulting firm and began teaching at universities. Donna has been with Texas McCombs since 2013 teaching financial, managerial, and tax accounting.

 

John McInnisJOHN McINNIS
Fall 2021 Class: Financial Accounting Standards and Analysis II

After earning his bachelor’s and master’s from The University of Texas at Austin, John received his PhD from the University of Iowa. He has been teaching financial accounting in the MPA program since 2008 and has published articles in top scholarly journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Finance, Management Science, and more.

Meet Dave Platt, Accounting Faculty and UT’s Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs

June 21, 2021 / / 0 Comments

Since 1996, David Platt has called UT home. He has touched the lives of thousands of students teaching managerial and cost accounting in the BBA, MPA, and various MBA programs. Let’s learn more about Dave and his current role as UT’s Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs.

Meet Dave Platt

Dave Platt did not set out to earn a PhD in accounting. After working as an auditor for PwC in Philadelphia and then in industry, he returned to Cornell intending to earn his PhD in operations management. While in grad school, he found that there was a discipline called managerial accounting that sat at the intersection of accounting, finance, marketing – and he was hooked!

While at Texas McCombs, Dave wore a variety of different hats. He began as a faculty member and researcher, and then added the director of the Center for International Business Education and Research to his resume. After 12 years in that role, Dave became Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, where he stewarded the operations of the BBA program. In 2019, he joined the Provost’s Office as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs.

In his first 18 months in the Provost’s Office, Dave concentrated on building a working network among the many different undergraduate programs at UT, to make the academic experience the very best it can be across our large and diverse university. Dave notes that “UT is a big place, but it’s important that for any given student it feels like it is a small, tight-knit community.”

Dave has dedicated 12 of the last 18 months largely to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and trying to do so in a way that, as much as possible under our current operating constraints, keeps undergraduate education at UT going strong. While he misses teaching students, their well-being and educational experience are both still paramount concerns for him.

Dave cross-country skiing with his wife, Nancy.

Dave cross-country skiing with his wife, Nancy.

In his spare time, Dave loves to read, particularly history, and spends as much time as possible in the mountains skiing, hiking, and enjoying the fresh air with his wife, Nancy. And like so many of us, he picked up a few new hobbies during the pandemic. “I’m finally learning to play guitar, something I’ve always wanted to do, and I’ve gotten into making ice cream and dreaming up new recipes,” Dave said. “I even based one on shoofly pie, which I remember from growing up in Pennsylvania.”

Meet MPA Faculty at Our Upcoming Webinar on March 24!

March 16, 2021 / / 0 Comments

Meet MPA Faculty Webinar Blog Post

Meet Master in Professional Accounting faculty at the upcoming webinar on Wednesday, March 24 from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. CT!

Our professors and lecturers are regularly cited as one of the most compelling reasons to join the Texas McCombs MPA program. Our faculty continuously listen to the needs of accounting professionals and evolve our curriculum to prepare students with insights into new technologies as they enter the workforce.

Meet Senior Lecturers Patrick Badolato, Terri Holbrook, Jeff Johanns, and Steve Smith at the MPA Faculty Webinar to get all of your academics and coursework questions answered.

Register here. We’ll see you there!

 

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