Smeal Professor Of Accounting Named Outstanding Educator
Charles H. Smith, the KPMG Professor of Accounting at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, has been named the 2004 Outstanding Accounting Educator by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Smeal Professor Of Accounting Named Outstanding Educator
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (June 22, 2004) – Charles H. Smith, the KPMG Professor of Accounting at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, has been named the 2004 Outstanding Accounting Educator by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
The award, which will be given during a ceremony on Oct. 29, recognizes one professor each year for his or her contributions to accounting education in the state. The honor reflects excellence in three areas: teaching, student motivation, and educational innovation.
Smith, who earned his Ph.D. from the Smeal College in 1968, began his career in public accounting in Cape Town, South Africa, where he was born. He joined the Smeal faculty in 1987 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has also held faculty positions at Arizona State, Texas at Austin, and Washington.
Since 2002, Smith has taught introductory and intermediate accounting courses to Smeal undergraduates. He also has been involved in numerous business consulting assignments during his career, served as an expert witness in court cases, and acted as a member of the editorial boards of numerous professional journals.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
