Accounting education

Michael Maher, professor at the University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management, received the 2015 Lifetime Contribution Award from the AICPA and the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association.

The AICPA has awarded its inaugural Two-Year Transfer Scholarship to five students who have earned associate’s degrees in business, accounting, finance, or economics with a declared intent to major in accounting at a four-year college or university.

To help increase the number of CPAs from diverse backgrounds teaching at the college and university level, the AICPA has awarded 22 scholars the Minority Doctoral Fellowship.

The AICPA has awarded 2014–15 AICPA John L. Carey Scholarships to five students.

The winners will present their curricula in person at the 2015 American Accounting Association annual meeting.

Kenneth A. Merchant received the Institute’s 2014 Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award, which recognizes full-time accounting professors who excel as educators and have achieved national prominence in the accounting profession. Merchant is the Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair in Accountancy at the Leventhal School of Accounting in the University

Dan Deines, the Ralph Crouch/KPMG Professor of Accounting at Kansas State University, received the AICPA’s Special Recognition Award, which is given to an individual who has made a contribution of an outstanding nature to the success of a particular professional initiative. During his career, Deines, who also received the Institute’s