Accounting

The American Accounting Association will present its prestigious Outstanding Educator Award to Rutgers Business School Professor Miklos Vasarhelyi, who has played a major role in establishing the field of Accounting & Information Systems.

Yaw Mensah, who stepped down as senior associate dean of faculty at Rutgers Business School in December, has started dressing a bit more casually these days.

So when Dean Glenn Shafer presented him with a plaque at the quarterly faculty meeting last Friday, behind the surprised look and the broad smile, Mensah was secretly relieved about the attire he had chosen, especially when the room filled with applause and cameras started clicking.

“Fortunately,’’ he said, laughing, “I was wearing a tie.” 

CEO of Ernst & Young will visit Livingston Campus on Wednesday, February 13 for a question-and-answer session with Rutgers Business School Dean Glenn Shafer

In Kevin Kelleher’s business, label companies take gambles on talent, betting millions of dollars on someone they hope will become a superstar.

A good bet is memorable: Like Celine Dion, who was discovered as a teen-ager in Canada and became one of the biggest pop stars of the 1990s. Mariah Carey is another, and Adele is one of the latest.

By Dan Palmon, William Von Minden Professor and Department Chair, Accounting & Information Systems

If the rich were defined as earning $1 million or more and companies generating less than $10 million in annual income were exempt from paying income taxes, it would represent a fair compromise between the Democratic and Republican tax proposals. 

The 20th Annual Conference on Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting and Management (PBFEAM) will be held at Rutgers University – Livingston Campus, Livingston Student Center on September 8th and 9th, 2012. The upcoming conference will be one of the largest international conferences hosted by Rutgers Business School in recent history.

 The KPMG Foundation has awarded Stephania Mason a $10,000 KPMG Minority Accounting Doctoral Scholarship to pursue her doctorate at Rutgers University. The scholarship, renewed for the 2011-2012 academic year, is renewable for up to five years at $10,000 a year.  

The Board of Directors at ISACA unanimously voted in favor of presenting the 2011 Joseph J. Wasserman Award to Rutgers Business School Professor Miklos Vasarhelyi in recognition of his outstanding achievements and contributions to the field of Information Systems. He will be presented the prestigious award at the ISACA Annual Gala on June 23, 2011 to celebrate his success. 

The Information Systems Section of the American Accounting Association selected Professor of Accounting, Business Ethics & Information Systems Miklos Vasarhelyi, PhD as the winner of the prestigious Notable Contributions to the Literature award. This significant honor was announced in a recent AAA convention in San Francisco.