Accounting

Array ( [0] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 97677 [post_author] => 53 [post_date] => 2021-06-03 16:14:46 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-06-03 20:14:46 [post_content] => George Noxon, a Jefferson Pilot Associate Professor of Accounting, has had a long history with HPU. After a distinguished career as a CPA with one of the major US accounting firms, he began teaching as an adjunct with the University back in 1991, and became a full time instructor in 1993. He has continued teaching with the University ever since. He earned the position of Assistant Professor in 2000, and more recently was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008. He specializes in financial accounting. He served as Chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance from 2007 to 2022.   Mr. Noxon held his Certified Public Accountant (CPA) status in the state of North Carolina for over 36 years. During his early career, he worked his way up as an accountant for Price Waterhouse for ten years, starting as an Audit Staff Accountant and moving through the ranks as an Audit Senior Accountant, Audit Manager, Audit Senior Manager, and eventually becoming a Group Financial Director for the company, before beginning his teaching career.   Mr. Noxon serves as an advocate to help secure jobs for his students after graduation. He has been instrumental in arranging careers fairs, recruiting efforts, and professional networking opportunities. He not only sets up the opportunities, he makes extensive efforts to train and prepare his students.   Mr. Noxon currently holds a position on the Earl N. Phillips School of Business (PSB) Strategic Planning Committee. He earned his B.A. in Economics from the University of the South, and his M.B.A. from Tulane University Graduate School of Business. 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He teaches courses in principles and intermediate accounting, individual and corporate tax, and the accounting senior seminar. He holds the Microsoft Excel Proficiency Certificate and has offered short seminars to help business students master the Excel functions they need to apply to their classes and internships. Mr. Davis also teaches various CPA review topics for Becker’s CPA Exam Review.   Mr. Davis serves High Point University as the Advisor of the Delta Mu Delta Business Honor Society. Past and present service to HPU includes the PSB Curriculum Committee, the Assurance of Learning Evaluation Committee, and a member of the Honor Court . He is the Director of the VITA Program (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) where HPU accounting students provide tax form completion assistance to people of modest incomes in the City of High Point.   Mr. Davis pursues professional growth opportunities with the Annual Income Tax Update Conferences and Seminars sponsored by the NCACPA and NC State University, the Annual Accounting and Auditing Developments Seminars, and the Annual Accounting Educational Forums. He assisted with bringing the Adrian Project IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agents to the HPU campus. Students, decked out with fake weapons, bullet-proof vests and faux badges worked on hypothetical fraud cases such as tax fraud, embezzlement, and drug trafficking.   Mr. Davis earned his Master of Science – Accountancy from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and his Bachelor of Administrative Science in Accounting at Guilford College. 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She then decided to further her education and earn an MBA with a concentration in finance and an accounting Ph.D. Her business experience, teamed with her degrees from top-notch institutions, makes her a real asset for the PSB’s accounting and finance students. The PSB celebrated her arrival in August of 2014.   Dr. Lacy’s research interests lie largely in judgment and decision making for auditing and managerial accounting, as well as pedagogy. Topics of her research have included:   • an experimental study of disclosure perceptions for contingent liabilities • evidence that MBA students are better prepared for corporate strategic planning than MSA students • attention to depreciation’s effect on capital budgeting metrics • the Masters of Accounting student and off-balance sheet equity accounting • auditing and the sociopathic manager: critical reflections on current practices and standard setting processes • perceived ambiguity of accounting information: an application of the Einhorn and Hogarth Ambiguity Model   Dr. Lacy’s professional affiliations and activities include the American Accounting Association, the National Association of Black Accountants, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the National Black MBA Association. She has been the recipient of the AICPA Doctoral Fellowship and the KPMG Peat Marwick Foundation Fellowship. Dr. Lacy was an American Accounting Association’s Doctoral Consortium Fellow.   At HPU, Dr. Lacy teaches Financial Accounting, Financial Management, and Managerial Accounting. She also serves HPU on the Assurance of Learning Committee and First-Year Seminars Committee. She previously worked as an assistant professor at Illinois Wesleyan University where she taught Professional Issues, Accounting and Auditing Concepts and Theory, Managerial Accounting, and Financial Accounting. As assistant professor at the University of Central Florida she taught Financial Accounting Concepts and Analysis and Intermediate Financial Accounting.   Dr. Lacy’s education and professional certifications include a Ph.D. in accounting from the School of Business and Public Management at The George Washington University, an MBA with a concentration in finance from The Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia and a B.S. in accounting from Hampton University. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Maryland. [post_title] => Jo Lacy [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => dr-jo-lacy [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-08-06 13:03:27 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-08-06 17:03:27 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?post_type=faculty-staff&p=94476 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [4] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 98088 [post_author] => 53 [post_date] => 2021-06-03 16:22:50 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-06-03 20:22:50 [post_content] => Dr. Ross Roberts, Associate Professor of Accounting, joined High Point University in 2010. Along with a Ph.D. in Accounting from Drexel University, he brings to the classroom the knowledge gained from six years of significant corporate experience working as a cost accountant and analyst for E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company and as an Assistant Plant Controller for Printpack, Inc. At HPU he has taught undergraduate courses in financial accounting, managerial accounting, intermediate accounting, accounting information systems, as well as the MBA course in managerial accounting. He applies both the scholarly and the applied approaches to the classroom.   Dr. Roberts’ research interests lie in the areas of judgment and decision making in managerial accounting and information systems. His recent works are titled:   • Check My Work! Instantaneous Feedback and Student Performance in a Small Introductory Accounting Class, with Dr. Premalata Sundaram. • Innovativeness and Creativity in Management Accounting: Effects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation   Dr. Roberts holds professional memberships in The Institute of Internal Auditors, the American Accounting Association, and is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA).   The Earl N. Phillips School of Business (PSB) and HPU have benefited from Dr. Robert’s service on the Business Leadership Team. Past and present service to HPU also includes the PSB Graduate Committee and the Diversity Committee.   Dr. Roberts earned his Ph.D. in Accounting from Drexel University; his M.S. in Accounting and MIS from the University of Delaware, and his B.S. in Accounting summa cum laude from North Carolina A&T State University. 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Dr. Sundaram has taught financial accounting, managerial accounting, intermediate accounting I and II, auditing, financial management, international finance, financial derivatives, and global business courses. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she has served on the Earl N. Phillips School of Business Assurance of Learning Evaluation Committee and the Curriculum Committee. She also serves on the university undergraduate research committee and is a liaison for promoting undergraduate research in the School of Business. She has mentored several undergraduate students in research work leading to publications in journals.   Dr. Sundaram has made significant contributions to the PSB in three major initiatives. She was the creator and developer of BUA 3100 Global Business, the business school's first study abroad course with field trips to South America and Europe. She led the integration of SAP skills into the accounting curriculum - a skill set that is in high demand in the business world. She was instrumental in securing University Recognition Program certification by the CFA Institute, an international gold standard for investment professionals. She mentors students and is instrumental in securing scholarships for students interested in careers on Wall Street.   Dr. Sundaram earned her undergraduate degree and graduate degrees in accounting from the University of Mumbai, India. She received her M.A. in Applied Economics from Clemson University, as well as her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Ohio State University. She also completed the AACSB Post-Doctoral Bridge to Business Program in Accounting and Finance from the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida. She has international work experience in the field of financial institutions and consulting.   She is a charter holder of The CFA Institute, holds a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license from the State of North Carolina, is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and is a member of IMA.   Dr. Sundaram’s’ research interests lie in the areas of auditing, taxes on financial trading, and pedagogical innovations in accounting and student learning. Her recent works include:   • Sundaram, P (2017). "An entrepreneurial approach to learning the accounting cycle," presented at and included in Proceedings of the 2017 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Academic Freedom: Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Free Markets. Myrtle Beach, NC. • Sundaram, P and Roberts, R. (2016). "Check my work! Instantaneous feedback and student performance in an introductory financial accounting course." Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, Vol. 20(3), 80-97. • Effect of derivatives trading on volatility in the stock market: Evidence from an emerging market (2009), presented at the CFTC, Office of Economic Analysis, Washington, DC and the FDIC, Division of Insurance and Research, Washington, DC. • Sundaram, P (2004). “Do futures and options trading increase stock market volatility?” ICFAI Journal, Vol. 1, 2004. [post_title] => Premalata Sundaram [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => premalata-sundaram [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-08-27 13:01:27 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-08-27 17:01:27 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?p=98046 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) )