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 →
Two Texas MPA students won the 2016 Elijah Watt Sells Award. Charles Sims (BBA ’15, MPA ’15) and Andrew J. Smith (BBA ’15, MPA ’16) not only passed all 4 sections of the Uniform CPA Examination, they obtained a cumulative… Continue Reading →
Congratulations to the McCombs team for placing third at the national Deloitte FanTAXtic Case Competition! Sixty teams representing 43 colleges and universities participated in the regional event in November. As one of nine winners at the regional event, the team… Continue Reading →
Communicated Values as Informal Controls: Promoting Quality While Undermining Productivity? Steven J. Kachelmeier (UT), Todd A. Thornock (Iowa State University), and Michael G. Williamson (Illinois) Contemporary Accounting Research, Winter 2016, 33(4), pp. 1141-1434 We use experimentation to show that a… Continue Reading →
Almost 580 college fencers from 37 colleges across the country participated in the United States Association of Collegiate Fencing Clubs’ (USACFC) annual Collegiate Fencing National Championships in Lansing, Michigan this past April. Of those, iMPA student Sean Li, currently Treasurer… Continue Reading →
The McCombs Accounting Programs’ Texas Star Award is given to a friend of our department and our programs in recognition of his or her continuing support over a sustained period of years. This year’s honoree, C. Aubrey Smith, Jr., joins… Continue Reading →
DEAR ACCOUNTING LONGHORNS: The McCombs School, under the leadership of newly appointed Dean Jay Hartzell and Senior Associate Dean Eric Hirst, is in the process of examining its strategic plan – including faculty composition, curricula, alumni engagement, and branding. I… Continue Reading →
This fall we welcome two new professors to the Department: Ronghou Zheng and Nicholas Hallman have both joined us as Assistant Professors. Originally from Wenzhou, China (the birthplace of China’s private economy), Ronghuo Zheng came to Austin because of McCombs’ outstanding… Continue Reading →
Lecturer Donna Johnston-Blair Selected for Fall 2016 Faculty Honor Roll Lecturer Donna Johnston-Blair was one of a handful of professors in the McCombs School of Business to be selected for the Fall 2016 Faculty Honor Roll! Her students rated her… Continue Reading →
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