CURRICULUM VITAE

OF

JAN RICHARD HEIER, D.B.A., CPA

Associate Professor of Accounting

Auburn University at Montgomery

Updated September 30, 2000

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Address

Education

Professional Experience

Teaching Innovations

Research

Research in Progress

Publications

Presentations

Other Research Activities

University and Professional Activities

Address

Department of Accounting and Finance

Auburn University at Montgomery

P. O. Box 244023

Montgomery, AL 36124-4023

334-244-3497

jheier@monk.aum.edu

Education

Doctor of Business Administration

Mississippi State University

Completion Date: August 1986

Major: Accounting

Minors Corporate Finance and Business and Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis

Dissertation Title: A Quantitative Study of Accounting Methods and Usage in Mid-Nineteenth Century Alabama and Mississippi

Master of Business Administration

University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh

Completion Date: June 1982

Emphasis: Accounting and Strategic Management

Bachelor of Business Administration

University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh

Completion Date: June 1977

Majors: Accounting and Finance

Professional Experience

Teaching Experience

Auburn University at Montgomery

January 1986 to Present

Department of Accounting and Finance

School of Business

Courses Taught

(Graduate Level) (Undergraduate Level)
Advanced Corporation Finance Cost Accounting
Advanced Securities Analysis and Portfolio Management Financial Management I and II
Advanced Financial Accounting Theory Intermediate Accounting I and II
Managerial Accounting Essentials of Accounting and Finance
  Principles of Accounting I and I
  Managerial Accounting
  Principles of Real Estate

Mississippi State University

Graduate Assistant

August 1983 to June 1985

Department of Business Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis

College of Business and Industry

Courses Taught: Introduction to Business Statistics and Advanced Business Statistics

Graduate Assistant

Fall 1985

School of Accountancy

Courses Taught: Principles of Accounting



University of Wisconsin at River Falls

Instructor

August 1982 to June 1983

Department of Business Administration

College of Arts and Science

Courses Taught: Principles of Accounting I and II



Related Business Experience

Valley Bank

Appleton, Wisconsin

Title: Credit Analyst

Employment Period: August 1979 to December 1981

Duties: The duties entailed the acquisition and analysis of financial information on corporate lending customers and major individual accounts. In addition, duties included the preparation of forecasts and other related information for purposes of Small Business Administration loan applications and Industrial Development Bond issues. Research into various aspects of commercial bank lending and administration was also required.

The Singer Company

Syosset, New York

Title: Field Auditor

Employment Period: September 1977 to July 1979

Duties: The duties included the financial and operational auditing of Singer Company retail locations and supporting facilities. The position required extensive nationwide travel.

CPA Certificate

Awarded Mississippi CPA Certificate number 3483 on August 28, 1987.

Teaching Innovations

Computer Presentations and Aids

Finance and Securities Analysis Course

Managerial and Cost Accounting

Gulf Stream, Saturn, Jefferson Smurfit, Louisville Stoneware, Chevrolet Corvette Plant and Sprecher Brewery , Mercedes



Dow-United Technologies, J. R. Smith Manufacturing, Rheem Manufacturing, Theromlex Inc, Thermo-King Inc, Webster Industries

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESEARCH AND CREATIVE WORK

Dissertation

A Quantitative Study of Accounting Methods and Usage in Mid-Nineteenth Century Alabama and Mississippi. Copyright 1986. Mississippi State University. Dr. Louis Dawkins and Dr. Carol Cheatham acted as joint Major Professors.

The dissertation was a study of the types of accounting methods used by plantations and retail stores in mid-nineteenth century Alabama and Mississippi. The study included a statistical comparison between the accounting principles outlined in contemporary accounting textbooks and usage levels of those principles by the businesses of the period. The use of quantitative research in accounting history made the dissertation unique.

Current Submissions

"The Louisville and Nashville Railroad: A Case Study if Operating Analysis, 1867 - 1873. Submitted to the Journal of Accounting Case Research (August 2000) Eldon Gardner, University of Lethbridge, Editor

The Effect of Examination Format On Accounting Student Performance: An Experiment (With Dr. Judy Kamnikar of AUM) Submitted to Issues in Accounting Education ( June 2000 ) An American Accounting Association journal

Papers Near Completion

"The Writings of Thomas Affleck: An Antebellum Mississippi Agricultural Reformer, Author and Accountant." Possible submission to the Journal of Southern History or Accounting Business and Financial History.

This paper is a biography of Thomas Affleck who was instrumental in developing accounting and other business practices for the antebellum cotton planters.

The Struggle Against Regulatory Oversight: The Case of the Interstate Commerce Commission Versus the Goodrich Transportation Company." Possible submission to: Inland Seas --- Quarterly Journal of the Great Lakes Historical Society.

The paper is an investigation into the litigation between the Interstate Commerce Commission and Great Lakes Shipping companies after the ICC issued new accounting regulation orders in 1910.

Current Research

Book Chapter

"Unit 12 - Drama in Missions." World Changers Express Vol. 4. With Carol. T. Heier. Atlanta, Georgia: North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1997, 202-224 & 250-252.

World Changers is Southern Baptist entity that helps the needy repair homes with the help of high school and college students. The Book is designed to help students prepare for the work assignments.

Journal Articles

Academic Refereed Journals and Professional Journals

"A Content Comparison of Antebellum Plantation Records and Thomas Affleck's Accounting Principles." Published in the Accounting Historians Journal. Fall 1988. Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 131-150. This article provided a statistical study of the usage of Thomas Affleck's accounting principles by plantation owners. The study was one of very few statistically-based efforts in accounting history and used more than fifty sets of plantation manuscripts dating from the 1850s and 1860s. RESEARCH AWARD This paper won the Academy of Accounting Historians 1988 Research Award for the paper presented at the Academy's Annual Meeting held with the American Accounting Association Meetings in Orlando, Florida in August 1988.

"Accounting on an Antebellum Cotton Plantation: A Review of the Dent Journals." Southern Collegiate Accountant. Fall 1989, pp. 23-38. This paper discussed the accounting procedures used by one of the major cotton planters from antebellum Alabama and how these procedures were affected by the Civil War and Reconstruction Period.

"The Effect of the Civil War on Tax Policies in Mid-Nineteenth Century Alabama." Essays in Economic and Business History- Vol. VII, (1990) pp. 187-207. Published jointly by the Economic and Business History Society and the History Department of the University of Southern California. Edwin Perkins, Editor. This article studied how the State Comptroller affected tax policy in the State of Alabama during the period just before, during and just after the Civil War. The paper used the State Comptroller's reports for this period.

"The Cost Accounting Implications of SFAS 91." Co-authored with Barbara S. White, Colonial Companies, Montgomery, Alabama. The Journal of Bank Accounting and Auditing. Summer 1991, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 18-27. Faulkner and Gray, Publishers. The paper focused on the implementation of an accounting pronouncement that influences a bank's income and asset levels.

"A Quantitative Study of Accounting Methods in Mid-Nineteenth Century Alabama and Mississippi: An Application of Content Analysis." Journal of Accounting, Business, Financial History. March 1992, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 25-38. Published by the Cardiff Business School, University of Wales. The article studied the accounting methods used by southern storekeepers during the mid-nineteenth century. The study used a quantitative technique called "content analysis" to determine if a standard system of bookkeeping was used by storekeepers in the south during the antebellum period.

"The Business Side of Operating a Fleet at the Turn of the 20th Century: The Story of the Neff Family of Milwaukee; Part I." Inland Seas, Quarterly Journal of the Great Lakes Historical Society. Summer 1992, Vol. 48, pp. 139-144.

"The Business Side of Operating a Fleet at the Turn of the 20th Century: The Story of the Neff Family of Milwaukee; Part II." Inland Seas, Quarterly Journal of the Great Lakes Historical Society. Fall, 1992, Vol. 49, pp.226-230. These papers analyzed the business records of a Great Lakes shipping company that operated at the turn of the Twentieth Century.

"A Critical Look at the Thought and Theories of the Early Accounting Educator, John C. Colt." The Journal of Accounting, Business, Financial History. Spring 1993, pp. 50-65. This research examined a set of articles published by Colt in 1840 and provided a critical analysis of his theories using contemporary and modern writers for comparison.

"The Management Audit: Appraising a Client's Managerial Effectiveness." Co-authored with Patrick Joseph Heier, Market President for BankOne in Appleton Wisconsin. Journal of Lending and Risk Management. August 1998 pp. 27 - 32 & 70- 71. This paper supports the application of the management audit as a viable methodology for use by a lending analyst to assess the effectiveness of a client's management system.

"The Development of American Ship Accounting Practices to 1900: A Comparative Study of Three Vessels." June 1999 Accounting Historian's Journal Vol. 26:1 .June 1999, p. 27 - 52. This article is an archival study of the records of three ships from 1903 and a comparison of those records with accounting practices as discussed in books written from 1820 to 1900.

"Early Steamboat Accounting: the Interesting Case of the Steamboat Vesuvius." Accepted for publication in Steamboat Bill -Journal of the Steamboat Historical Society. Fall 1999, pp. 35 - 39. This article is a study of the accounting records from the second Robert Fulton steamboat on the Mississippi-Ohio River System, 1817-1823.

The Story of the Short Life of the Pensacola Lumber Schooner Richard A. Bingham Florida Historical Quarterly, Summer 2000, 137 -158. This paper is a history of the Schooner Richard A. Bingham as told through the existing accounting records from 1903, the year the schooner was built and sunk..

Foundations of Cost Management, The Life and Times of Albert Fink" Accounting, Business, Financial History. July 2000. pp. 213-243. This paper is a biography of Albert Fink who was instrumental in developing cost management procedures for railroads in the 1870s. Procedures that are still an integral part of cost management practices for modern businesses. .

Magazine Articles and Book Reviews

"Samuel Neff and Sons of Milwaukee." Anchor News. January/February 1989, Vol. XX, No. 1, pp. 4-9. Anchor News is the bi-monthly Journal of the Manitowoc Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Joan Kloester, Ed. This paper focused on the business records of a Great Lakes shipping company at the turn of the Twentieth Century, especially those that deal with the type of cargo hauled by the company and the results of operations for the year 1900.

Book Review of: A History of Cooper Brothers & Company 1854 to 1954, (Garland Press Reprint, 1986) for the Accounting Historians Journal. Published June 1989, pp. 132-134. Patti Mills, Indiana State University Book Review, Editor.

"Hints on Handling Your Money." Christian Singles Magazine. January 1992. Nashville, Tennessee: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, pp. 20-21. Cliff Allbritton, Editor. This article provided seven specific guidelines to be followed to avoid financial difficulties or to resolve existing problems.

"Answering Your Questions About Obtaining a Loan." Christian Singles Magazine. June 1992, pp. 8-9. Nashville, Tennessee: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Cliff Allbritton, Editor. This article provided instruction about the steps to follow in obtaining a loan and the related responsibilities of assuming debts. The information used for the article was drawn from many sources and was a result of research completed for financial counseling seminars.

"Four Strategies to Get Out of and Stay Out of Debt." Co-authored with Carol T. Heier, Licensed Certified Social Worker, Alabama Department of Public Health. Home Life Magazine. June 1993, pp. 24-25. Nashville, Tennessee: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The focus of the article was to highlight the problems that come with too much debt and to show simple ways to get out of debt and deal with the emotional and social problems of debt burdens.

Book Review of Leonard M. Savoie: Words for the Past, Thoughts for the Future, (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995) by Donald E. Tidrick for Issues in Accounting Education. Fall 1997, Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 592. Penny Marquette, Review Editor.

Book Review of Pastoral Accounting in Colonial Australia: A Case Study of Unregulated Accounting, (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997) by Garry Carnegie. Published in the Accounting Historian Journal Volume 25, Number 2 December 1998, pp. 219-220. Victoria Beard, Book Review Editor.

Refereed Proceedings

"Plantation Accounting in a Post Civil War Environment." Collected Papers and Abstracts of the 1987 Southeast Accounting Association meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 310-314. The paper was a study of a book entitled The Planter's Account Book published in the 1870s. The book's accounting policies were then compared with actual plantation manuscript examples to discern whether the book influenced accounting procedures used by plantation owners of the post-bellum period.

"Asset Valuation and Income Determination on a Pre-Civil War Cotton Plantation." Collected Papers and Abstracts of the 1988 Southeast American Accounting Association Meetings, Knoxville, Tennessee, pp. 197-201. This paper focused on the differences between asset valuation and income recognition in the mid-19th century and how such items are treated in the late 20th century.

"The Effect of the American Civil War on the Bookkeeping Practices in the South: Notes on the Utilitarian Nature of Accounting Development." Collected Papers and Abstracts of the 1988 Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association, San Antonio, Texas, pp. 222-229. This paper was a study of the change in certain accounting treatments by southern plantation owners due to the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution that freed the slaves.

"Benjamin Franklin Foster and John Caldwell Colt, Nineteenth Century Accounting Historians: A Case of Divergent Points of View." Challenges of the 1990's: Collected Papers and Abstracts of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Region of the American Accounting Association (1990), Tampa, Florida: University of South Florida, pp. 248-252. David M. Dennis, Editor. This paper compared the thoughts and theories of two prominent mid-nineteenth century accounting educators regarding the origins of the accounting profession and its basic methodology.

"Opscan Technology and Survey Gathering in Accounting Research." Co-authored with Dr. Robert Rogow. Proceedings of the Southeast American Accounting Association Meetings, 1991. Joseph M. Schussler, Editor. Birmingham, Alabama: Auburn University, pp. 121-125. This paper was the first in a series from research conducted on the profiles of successful authors in accounting literature. The paper focused on the unique nature of the electronic data gathering procedures used in the study.

"A Review of Ship Accounting Methodology During the Nineteenth Century." Collected Papers and Abstracts of the 1992 Southeast American Accounting Association Meetings. Charlotte, North Carolina, pp. 101-106. This paper was a statistical survey of the diffusion of ship accounting practices during the 19th Century.

"Profiles of a Successful Accounting Author: Some Graphical Evidence of Motivational and Personality Factors." Co-authored with Dr. Robert Rogow. Collected Papers and Abstracts of the 45th SEAAA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April 22-24, 1993, pp.161-168. This paper continued survey research conducted on the profiles of successful authors in accounting literature

"The Development of Railroad Regulatory Accounting at the Interstate Commerce Commission in Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century." Collected Papers and Abstracts of the Southeast American Accounting Association Meetings, Louisville, Kentucky, April 28-29, 1994. This paper researched the development of the present regulatory accounting system in the United States.

"Financial Reporting and the Disclosure of Corporate Managerial Accounting Systems: A Content Analysis." Global Business Trends. Cumberland, Maryland: Academy of Business Administration, (1995) p. 31-39. This paper discussed the lack of information content of stockholders' reports regarding management expertise.

"Environmental Remediation, A New Headache for the Loan Analyst. Co-authored with Patrick Joseph Heier. Collected Papers and Abstracts of the Academy of Accounting and Finance Meetings, New Orleans, December 6-9, 1995, pp. 149-154. This paper examined the accounting requirements for environmental liabilities and the impact these have on bank loan decisions.

"Mini-Case Studies for Quantitative MBA courses: A Teaching Pedagogy That Helps Both the Student and the Professor." Co-authored with Thomas Lucy-Bouler, Associate Professor, Auburn University at Montgomery. Collected Papers and Abstracts of the American Academy of Accounting and Finance Meetings, New Orleans, December 4-5, 1996, pp.161-166. This paper discussed the use of student developed case studies to communicate accounting information.

"Cost Accounting and Capitation: A Marriage of Necessity." Co-authored with Cody Jones, Financial Analyst with Medaphis Corporation, Montgomery, Alabama. Collected Papers of 49th Annual Southeast American Accounting Association Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, April 24-26, 1997, pp. 88-102. This paper discussed several financial problems facing doctors in the light of new managed care policies in the health care industry and the use of cost accounting methods to alleviate those problems.

"Profiles of a Successful Accounting Author: A Preliminary Study of Academic, Institutional and Motivational Factors." Co-authored with Dr. Robert Rogow. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute. Reno, Nevada, April 7-11, 1998, pp. 67-72. This was the final paper reporting on survey results regarding elements of successful accounting authors.

"It May Be a Fraud If...: SAS 82 and the Credit Analyst." Co-authored with Dr. David Sayers Auburn University at Montgomery. Proceedings of the American Academy of Accounting and Finance Meeting, New Orleans, LA December 3, 4 and 5, 1998 pp. 78 - 83. This paper discusses the fraud identification attributes of SAS 82 and how they can help a loan credit analyst.

Albert Fink and his Rhetoric of Cost Management" Collected Abstracts and Papers of the Academy of Accounting Historians Research Conference. Toronto, Ontario Canada November 18 - 20 1999. Gary Spraakman, editor, no page numbers. This paper is a biography of Albert Fink who was instrumental in developing cost management procedures for railroads in the 1870s. Procedures that are still an integral part of cost management practices for modern businesses.

"The Louisville and Nashville Railroad: A Case study of Operating Analysis, 1867 - 1873." Collected Abstracts and Papers of the Academy of Accounting Historians Research Conference. Toronto, Ontario Canada November 18 - 20 1999. Gary Spraakman, editor, no page numbers.

Published Abstracts

"The Analysis and Valuation of Equity Securities Using Cash-Flow." The Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science. July 1986, Vol. 57, No. 3, p. 168. This paper examined the methodology used by financial analysts to reconcile the differences between Accrual-based Accounting and Cash-based Accounting.

"Accounting on an Antebellum Cotton Plantation: A Review of the Dent Journals." Proceedings of the Midwest Accounting Association Meetings, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 1987, p. 62. This paper was subsequently published in The Southern Collegiate Accountant.

"A Quantitative Study of Southern Accounting Methods During the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Exposing the Case Study Fallacy." Collected Abstracts of the American Accounting Association's Annual Meetings, Orlando, Florida, August 1988, p. 105. This paper was subsequently published in Journal of Accounting, Business, Financial History,

"Taxation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Alabama." The Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science. July 1988, Vol. 59, No. 3, p. 165. This paper was subsequently published in Essays in Economic and Business History.

"Accounting for a Great Lakes Shipping Company at the Turn of the 20th Century." Collected Papers and Abstracts of the Southeast American Accounting Association. Alexandria, Virginia, April, 1989, p. 251. Floyd A. Beams, Editor.

"The Implementation of SFAS 91-A Cost Accounting Problem." Co-authored with Mrs. Barbara S. White, Colonial Company, Montgomery, Alabama. Proceedings of the Southeast American Accounting Association Meetings, (1991). Joseph M. Schussler, Editor. Birmingham, Alabama: Auburn University, p. 139. This paper was subsequently published in the Journal of Bank Accounting and Auditing.

"The Writings of Thomas Affleck: A Southern Agricultural Reformer, Author and Accountant." Collected Papers and Abstracts of the Conference on Biographical Research University of Mississippi, December, 2-4 1993. No page numbers. This paper was a biography of Thomas Affleck who was instrumental in developing accounting and other business practices for the antebellum cotton planter.

"Profiles of a Successful Accounting Author: Some Graphical and Statistical Evidence of Educational and Institutional Factors." Co-authored with Dr. Robert Rogow. Collected Papers and Abstracts of the Midsouth Institute of Accountants. Jackson, Mississippi, May 6, 1994, p. 50.

"Development of Ship Accounting Practices to 1900: A Comparative Study of Three Vessels." National American Accounting Association Meeting. Chicago, IL, August 14- 16, 1996. Abstract published on the Internet at: http://www.usc.edu/dept/accounting/graphics/aaanatmeeting.html. This paper has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Historians Journal.

"Managerial Accounting and the Loan Analyst." Co-authored with Patrick Joseph Heier. Collected Papers and Abstracts of the National Decision Sciences Meeting. Orlando, Florida, November 21- 25 1996, Vol.1, p. 296. This article has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Lending and Risk Management.

"Using Accounting Records to Trace Historical Events: the Story of the Short Life of the Richard A. Bingham." Collected Abstracts of the Academy of Accounting Historians 1997 Research Conference. Richmond VA, December 4-6 1997, p.13. This paper discussed alternative uses of accounting information in historical and literary writings.

"Activity Based Management in the Classroom: An Experiment in Determining Value Added Educational Time." Co-authored with June Reddington, Montgomery County School Teacher, Montgomery, AL. Collected Abstracts of the 50th Annual Meeting of Southeast American Accounting Association Meeting. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, April 16-18 1998, p. 39. This paper focused on an application of Activity-based Costing in the public school classroom as a tool to determine efficient use of instructional time.

"The Interstate Commerce Commission and the Development of a Uniform Accounting System for U. S. Railroads: 1887-1915." Published in the Collected Abstracts to the Fifth Charles Waldo Haskins Accounting History Seminar --- The Evolution of Business Disclosure. Academy of Accounting Historians, November 12-14, 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia. pp. 9-10. This paper represents continuing research into the development of regulatory accounting principles in the United States with an specific emphasis on the 1907 depreciation reporting requirements.

"The Development of Regulatory Accounting Procedures for Carriers by Water, 1906 - 1913." Collected Abstracts of the Southeast American Accounting Association Meetings Atlanta, Georgia in April 8 - 9, 1999, p. 66. The paper is an investigation into the litigation between the Interstate Commerce Commission and Great Lakes Shipping companies after the ICC issued new accounting regulation orders in 1910.

"FASB and the Increase Standards of Accountability for Not-for Profit Hospitals" (With Donna DaSilva of East Alabama Medical Center) Collected Abstracts of the Southeast American Accounting Association Meeting Savannah, Georgia April 6 - 8, 2000, p. 102. This paper is about the Application of Standards such as SFAS 116 and 117 and how they influences accountability at not-for-profit hospitals

The Effect of Examination Format On Accounting Student Performance: An Experiment (With Dr. Judy Kamnikar of AUM) Collected Abstracts of the Southeast American Accounting Association Meeting Savannah, Georgia April 6 - 8, 2000, p. 126. A study of the differences in student performances between multiple choice and essay exams

Paper Presentations

International Conferences

"Financial Reporting and the Disclosure of Corporate Managerial Accounting Systems: A Content Analysis." Presented to the Academy of Business Administration Meeting , Cancun Mexico, December 15-21, 1994.

National Conferences

"A Quantitative Study of Southern Accounting Methods During the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Exposing the Case Study Fallacy." Presented at the National American Accounting Association meetings, August 15-17, 1988 in Orlando, Florida.

"The Effect of the Civil War on Tax Policies in Mid-nineteenth Century Alabama." Presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Economic & Business History Society meetings, April 27-29, 1989, in Charleston, South Carolina.

"John C. Colt: The Thoughts and Theories of a Nineteenth Century Accounting Educator." Presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Economic and Business History Annual meetings, April 25-29, 1990 in Lexington, Kentucky.

"The Writings of Thomas Affleck: A Southern Agricultural Reformer, Author and Accountant." Presented at the Conference on Biographical Research, December 2-4, 1993, University of Mississippi. Sponsored by the Academy of Accounting Historians.

"Environmental Remediation, A New Headache for the Loan Analyst." Co-authored with Patrick Joseph Heier. Presented at the Academy of Accounting and Finance Meetings, New Orleans, December 6-9,1995.

"Development of Ship Accounting Practices to 1900: A Comparative Study of Three Vessels." Presented at the National American Accounting Association meetings, Chicago, Illinois, August 14-16, 1996.

"Managerial Accounting and the Loan Analyst." Co-authored with Patrick Joseph Heier. Presented at the National Decision Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 21- 25, 1996.

"Mini-Case Studies for Quantitative MBA Courses: A Teaching Pedagogy That Helps Both the Student and the Professor." Co-authored with Thomas Lucy-Bouler. Presented at the Academy of Accounting and Finance Meetings, New Orleans, December 4-5, 1996.

"Using Accounting Records to Trace Historical Events: the Story of the Short Life of the Richard A. Bingham." Academy of Accounting Historians 1997 Research Conference. Richmond VA, December 4-6, 1997.

"The Interstate Commerce Commission and the Development of a Uniform Accounting System for U. S. Railroads: 1887-1915." Presented at the Fifth Charles Waldo Haskins Accounting History Seminar, Academy of Accounting Historians, held November 12-14, 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia

"It May Be a Fraud If...: SAS 82 and the Credit Analyst." Co-authored with Dr. David Sayers Auburn University at Montgomery. Presented at the American Academy of Accounting and Finance Meeting, New Orleans, LA December 3, 4 and 5, 1998.

Panel Discussant about the Sources of Information for Accounting Historians. The Accounting History Consortium --Comparative International Accounting History Group Sponsored by the Academy of Accounting Historians. Location: University of Alabama -- May 20 - 22, 1999

"Albert Fink and his Rhetoric of Cost Management" presented at the Academy of Accounting Historians Research Conference, Toronto, Ontario Canada November 18 - 20 1999. This paper is a biography of Albert Fink who was instrumental in developing cost management procedures for railroads in the 1870s. Procedures that are still an integral part of cost management practices for modern businesses.

"The Louisville and Nashville Railroad: A Case study of Operating Analysis, 1867 - 1873."presented at the Academy of Accounting Historians Research Conference, Toronto, Ontario Canada November 18 - 20 1999.

Regional Meetings

"The Allocation Programming Model: A Management Science Technique for Controlling Asset and Liability Matching at a Commercial Bank." Presented at The Southwest Finance Association meetings, March 8, 1985, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

"Analysis of Financial Statements Using Cash Flow." Presented at the Mid-South Academy of Economics and Finance meetings, February 18-21, 1987, Mobile, Alabama.

"Accounting on an Antebellum Cotton Plantation: A Review of the Dent Journals." Presented at the Midwest American Accounting Association meetings, April 16, 1987, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

"Plantation Accounting in a Post Civil War Environment." Presented at the Southeast American Accounting Association meetings, April 25, 1987, Atlanta, Georgia.

"Asset Valuation and Income Determination on a Pre-Civil War Cotton Plantation." Presented at the Southeast American Accounting Association meetings, April 21-23, 1988, Knoxville, Tennessee.

"The Effect of the American Civil War on Bookkeeping Practice in the South: Notes on the Utilitarian Nature of Accounting Development." Presented at the 1988 Southwest American Accounting Association meetings, March 2-5, 1988, San Antonio, Texas.

"Accounting for a Great Lakes Shipping Company at the Turn of the 20th Century." Presented at the Southeast American Accounting Association meetings, April 20-22, 1989, Alexandria, Virginia.

"Benjamin Franklin Foster and John Caldwell Colt, Nineteenth Century Accounting Historians: A Case of A Divergent Points of View." Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Region of the American Accounting Association, April 5-7, 1990, Tampa, Florida.

"The Implementation of SFAS 91-A Cost Accounting Problem." Co-authored with Mrs. Barbara S. White. Presented at the Southeast American Accounting Association meetings, April 25-27, 1991, Birmingham, Alabama.

"Opscan Technology and Survey Gathering in Accounting Research." Co-authored with Dr. Robert Rogow. Presented at the Southeast American Accounting Association meetings, April 25-27, 1991, Birmingham, Alabama.

"A Review of Ship Accounting Methodology's During the Nineteenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography." Presented at the Southeast American Accounting Association meetings, April 23-25, 1992, Charlotte, North Carolina.

"Profiles of a Successful Accounting Author: Some Graphical Evidence of Motivational and Personality Factors." Presented at the Southeast American Accounting Association meetings, April 22-24, 1993, Atlanta, Georgia.

"The Development of Railroad Regulatory Accounting at the Interstate Commerce Commission in Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century." Presented at Southeast Accounting Association meetings, April 28-29 1994, Louisville, KY.

"Profiles of a Successful Accounting Author: Some Graphical and Statistical Evidence of Educational and Institutional Factors." Co-authored Dr. Robert B. Rogow. Presented at the Mid-South Institute of Accountants Meeting, May 6, 1994, Jackson Mississippi.

"Cost Accounting and Capitation: A Marriage of Necessity." Co-authored with Cody Jones. Presented at the Southeast American Accounting Association Meeting, April 24-26, 1997, Nashville, Tennessee.

"Profiles of Successful Accounting Authors: A Preliminary Study of Academic, Institutional and Motivational Factors." Co-authored with Dr. Robert Rogow. Presented at the Annual 27th meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, April 7-11, 1998, Reno, Nevada.

"Activity Based Management in the Classroom: An Experiment in Determining Value Added Educational Time. Co-authored with June Reddington. Presented at the 50th Southeast American Accounting Association Meeting, April 16-18 1998, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

"The Development of Regulatory Accounting Procedures for Carriers by Water, 1906 - 1913." Presented at the Southeast American Accounting Association Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia in April 8 - 9, 1999.

"FASB and the Increase Standards of Accountability for Not-for Profit Hospitals" (With Donna DaSilva of East Alabama Medical Center)Presented at the Southeast American Accounting Association, Savannah, Georgia April 6 - 8, 2000.

The Effect of Examination Format On Accounting Student Performance: An Experiment (With Dr. Judy Kamnikar of AUM) Presented at the Southeast American Accounting Association Meeting, Savannah, Georgia April 6 - 8, 2000.

State Meetings

"The Analysis and Valuation of Equity Securities Using Cash-Flow." Presented at the Alabama Academy of Science meetings, April 2-5, 1986, Montgomery, Alabama.

"Taxation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Alabama." Presented at the 1988 Alabama Academy of Science Meetings, March 23-25, 1988, in Auburn, Alabama.

Other Research Related Efforts

Paper Reviews And Related Scholarly Work

CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES AND TRAINING MANUALS

UNPUBLISHED BUSINESS REPORTS

"A Feasibility Study into the Development of a Small Business Investment Corporation (SBIC) by the Valley BanCorporation." This study was prepared in November 1980 for Richard Jones, Executive Vice President of Valley Bank, Appleton, Wisconsin. The purpose of the study was to determine whether the bank holding company was eligible to start a Small Business Investment Corporation (SBIC) and the feasibility of such a venture. Based on the results of the study, the bank holding company did not pursue the establishment of an SBIC.

"A Report on Union Mortgage." Prepared for John Tabor, Attorney at Law Montgomery, Alabama. The report was prepared as part of some litigation consulting performed for Mr. Tabor on behalf of some unnamed clients. The report discusses ways in which the defendants in a law suit could be compelled to pay a judgment. An article regarding the case was published in the "Montgomery Advertiser".

Performed financial analysis and lost income analysis work for Montgomery attorney Richard Lawrence.

University and Professional Activities

Honors, Community Service and Associations

Professional Memberships

Academy of Accounting Historians

Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)

Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants

American Accounting Association

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

American Academy of Accounting and Finance

University Service

Continuing Education

Continuing Education Presentations and Seminars Taught

Continuing Professional Education and Development Attended

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