Smith To Receive Accounting Education Award
Smith To Receive Accounting Education Award
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (April 21, 2005)—Charles H. Smith, the KPMG Professor of Accounting at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, has been selected to receive the 2005 Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Designed to recognize full-time college accounting educators who exhibit excellence in teaching and have achieved national prominence in the accounting profession, the award will be presented May 22 in Washington, D.C. Nominations for the annual honor are submitted by state CPA societies and individual AICPA members.
Smith joined the Smeal faculty in 1987 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has taught a variety of accounting courses at the undergraduate, MBA, M.S., and Ph.D. levels including financial and managerial accounting, auditing, theory, and research.
A prolific researcher, Smith has published in many U.S. and foreign academic and practitioner journals and has served as a member of the editorial boards of numerous professional journals. He has also served on committees of the American Accounting Association, the AICPA, and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and has been a consultant to a variety of companies and organizations.
Smith, who was chair of Smeal’s Department of Accounting from 1987 to 2000, spent almost seven years in public accounting in his native South Africa before entering the Smeal Ph.D. program in 1964. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cape Town.
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.
