Dr. Jenice Prather-Kinsey, CPA will be joining the School of Business on June 1, 2010 as the new Chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance. Dr. Prather –Kinsey is moving from the University of Missouri College of Business, where she has served on the faculty since 1990. She holds an MS in accounting from the University of Illinois and a PhD in Accounting from the University of Alabama.
Dr. Prather-Kinsey is an exceptional teacher scholar and is very active in the accounting academy and in the accounting profession. She is the author of 21 peer-reviewed articles in respected journals as well as the author of three books – the most recent being Financial Reporting in Developing Countries (forthcoming later this year) and Cost Accounting: Foundations and Evolution (2005).
From 1994 to the present, Dr. Prather-Kinsey has been the KPMG Peat Marwick Mentor for the African-American Doctoral Students Association. She served on the AAA Commons Editorial Board 2009-2010. She served as President of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA) 2007-2008. She currently serves on the Editorial boards of the Journal of International Accounting Research, Advances in Accounting Education, and the Journal of Managerial Issues. She has also served on the Accounting Education Executive Committee of AICPA.
In addition to her many academic and professional accomplishments, Jenice is a very caring individual with a passion for student learning. Each year she takes a group of students to Europe to study international accounting trends and standards. She plans to continue this great experiential opportunity with UAB students in the coming 2010/2011 academic year.
I am very proud of the exceptional talent that we are bringing to the UAB School of Business. We are on our way to becoming a destination school for business education!
