Accounting Faculty

Our faculty has extensive real-world experience and they are outstanding classroom teachers. They are easily accessible and will serve as your program advisors.

Over the past 14 years, members of the Institute's accounting faculty have been selected as SOBA Professor of the Year four times, Teacher of the Year twice, Service Provider of the Year eight times, and Researcher of the Year once. One faculty member received the JD/MBA program's Golden Apple teaching award.

 

James R. Beasley, University Professor of Business Administration; Ph.D., Tufts University; business ethics

Michael E. Bitter, Rinker Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Chair, M.E. Rinker, Sr. Institute of Tax and Accountancy; Ph.D., University of Mississippi; CPA; financial accounting/theory and auditing

Vincent C. Brenner, David M. Beights Professor of Accounting; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University; CPA; financial accounting and reporting

Richard W. Copeland, Associate Professor of Business Law and Tax; LL.M., Tax, University of Miami; JD, University of Florida; business law, family business, estate planning, estate taxation

Monica M. Jeancola, Assistant Professor of Accounting; Ph.D., University of Florida; CPA; cost/managerial accounting, accounting information systems

Gregory K. McCann, Professor of Family Business and Business Law; J.D., University of Florida; CPA; business law and family enterprise

Maria F. Rickling, Assistant Professor of Accounting; Ph.D., Florida International University; financial accounting, auditing

Judson P. Stryker, Professor of Accounting and Eugene M. Lynn Chair; D.B.A., Mississippi State University; CPA; financial accounting, individual and corporate taxation, and tax research