Smith Named Accounting Alumnus of the Year
Charles H. Smith, KPMG Professor Emeritus of Accounting, was named the Penn State Accounting Alumnus of the Year for 2007 at the Robert W. Koehler Beta Alpha Psi Banquet held today.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (April 19, 2007) – Charles H. Smith, KPMG Professor Emeritus of Accounting, was named the Penn State Accounting Alumnus of the Year for 2007 at the Robert W. Koehler Beta Alpha Psi Banquet held today.
Smith, who retired in June 2006, joined the Smeal faculty in 1987, serving as chair of the Accounting Department until 2000.
He has received several teaching awards at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive development levels. He received the PICPA Outstanding Educator Award in 2004, and the AICPA Award for Distinguished Achievements in Accounting Education in 2005.
Smith's publications include books, monographs, service as a foreign correspondent for a journal, articles in U.S. and foreign journals, and reprints.
He has taught at Arizona State University, the University of Cape Town, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Washington (Seattle).
As a member, he has served the American Accounting Association on Council, numerous committees, and as director of doctoral consortium. He has also been a member of the American Institute of CPAs on the Commodity Futures Subcommittee and the 150-Hour Program Committee.
He has served as a member on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accountancy, and others.
Smith has been a consultant to Caterpillar Inc., Ernst & Whinney, GTE, Molex, Inc., Touche Ross, the U.S. Justice Department, and on grant committees for Arthur Andersen (Doctoral Fellowships), the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Fellowships), and Deloitte & Touche (Doctoral Fellowships).
