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Stephen Limberg

PricewaterhouseCoopers Centennial Professor in Accounting

Department:     Accounting

Stephen Limberg headshot
Stephen Limberg headshot

Dr. Stephen T. Limberg is the PricewaterhouseCoopers Centennial Professor in Accounting in the Department of Accounting, McCombs School of Business, at The University of Texas at Austin and has been the Faculty Director of the Master in Professional Accounting Program since 2005. He served as the Department Chair from 1997 through 2003. Steve joined the Department in 1982 and teaches financial reporting. He has had significant involvement in the development of innovative courses delivered at UT-Austin as well as internationally in, for example, China (Chinese University of Hong Kong), France (INSEAD and ESCP-EAP International School of Management), and Brazil (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo).

Steve teaches Accounting in the full-time Masters in Professional Accounting (MPA) and MBA programs, as well as in Dallas / Ft. Worth MBA program. He received the 2008 OneStar Foundation Governor’s Volunteer Award for the development and delivery of the Accounting Practicum course entitled: The Federal Taxation of Low Income Filers: Socio-Economic Force and is the recipient of numerous Department and College teaching awards for excellence and innovation, such as most recently the 2010 CBA Foundation Advisory Council Award for Teaching Innovation. and Outstanding MBA Professor in 2013 and 2014.

Steve has numerous publications in both professional and academic journals including articles in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research; National Tax Journal, The Journal of the American Taxation Association, among others. He is a licensed CPA in California.