August 17, 2002
Four Profs Receive National Accounting Awards
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Austin, TX – Four McCombs professors received distinguished awards from the American Accounting Association at the organization's annual meeting held August 14-17 in San Antonio.
The four honored were as follows:
- Anna Fowler was the recipient of The Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator Award (awarded by the ATA Section to recognize, honor and reward outstanding contributions by a faculty member teaching taxation).
- Linda Krull received the ATA/PricewaterhouseCoopers Outstanding Tax Dissertation Award (awarded annually at the ATA luncheon for the outstanding tax dissertation).
- Joseph Wells accepted the AAA Innovation in Accounting Education Award (to encourage and recognize innovation in accounting education).
- Bill Kinney was one of three winners of the AAA's Curriculum Challenge Contest. Kinney proposed a "concepts and issues-based" PhD program that stresses the role of accounting policy choices in business and society and presented his proposal at a plenary session of the annual meeting.
Kinney's award comes on the heels of his selection in May 2002 as the top accounting professor in the nation for the past year, according to the The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
The McCombs School of Business is an international leader in accounting education. In September of 2001, Public Accounting Report ranked the school's graduate accounting programs #1 in the country for the eighth year in a row, based on an annual survey of accounting professors. The same report rated the undergraduate accounting program #1 in the country and the doctoral program #3.
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