The Ledger

Florence Atiase, a lecturer in the Department of Accounting, has received the Texas Society of CPAs’ (TSCPA) Outstanding Accounting Educator Award for 2009. The award honors those who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and have distinguished themselves through active service to the accounting profession.
Atiase fits the profile perfectly. Since joining the McCombs faculty in 1993, [...]

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Students in the accounting practicum course, Federal Taxation of Low Income Filers: Socio-Economic Forces, get more than classroom experience. Since the course was created in 2005, more than 600 McCombs students have prepared income tax forms for thousands of low to moderate income families through Foundation Communities’ Community Tax Centers programs. The work of these [...]

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From Mondovisione
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance today announced the selection of John R. Robinson as the Academic Accounting Fellow for a one-year term beginning next month.
“Each year, we look forward to the important contributions made by those participating in our Academic Accounting Fellow program. John’s experience and perspective will be extremely [...]

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From Professor John McInnis
Does Fair Value Accounting Contribute to “Contagion” in the Banking Industry?
Yes, according to a new study by Urooj Khan, a PhD student at Washington (and soon-to-be Assistant Professor at Columbia I’m told).  Let’s set the stage for why you should care.
Fair value is the price an asset would fetch in an orderly sale in a [...]

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When you think of a family business, your locally owned coffee shop might come to mind. And as you savor a cappuccino there every day, you might begin to feel your investment goes beyond the two dollars and tip you leave on the counter. You might begin to trust the owners as if they were [...]

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