May 20, 2002
McCombs Accounting Prof Wins Top National Honor
AICPA Selects Audit Specialist William Kinney as Professor of the Year
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AUSTIN, TX. - The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the premier national body of certified accountants, has named a McCombs School of Business accounting professor its educator of the year.
William R. Kinney, Jr., who has taught in the accounting program at the University of Texas for 13 years, won the 2002 AICPA Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education award as recognition for being the "outstanding accounting educator who is also actively involved in the accounting profession," said Barry Melancon, president and CEO of the 340,000-member institute.
Kinney, who holds both the Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Regents Chair in Business and the PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditing Fellowship, conceived, implemented and is now the director of the McCombs School's Center for Business Measurement and Assurances Services (BMAS), an effort aimed at accounting in the information age.
The BMAS curriculum uses information technology to measure financial risks, evaluate future business prospects and help CEOs make strategic decisions. Since its formation in 1997, BMAS has sponsored four national academic conferences, 12 faculty research projects and four doctoral dissertations.
Courses pioneered by Kinney are now required for students securing degrees in the school's Masters in Professional Accounting (MPA). Kinney's approach is now the model for assurance services courses taught at business school programs at North Carolina, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Auburn, as well as leading schools in France, the Netherlands and Singapore.
He will receive his award May 19 at the AICPA Spring Council in Savannah, Ga.
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