Lewis Shaw

Associate Professor, Accounting

Ph.D. in Accounting Information Systems, Durham University Business School, Durham, UK Master of Science in Finance, Bentley College Bachelor of Science in Accounting, New Hampshire College Certified Management Accountant (CMA)

Publications

• The Accounting Careers Project, a student workbook co-authored with Gail Sergenian, Ph.D., for implementation in Intermediate Accounting II, publisher Irwin/McGraw Hill, 1997.

• "Evidence that Classroom Projects Improve Accounting Students’ Technology-Related Perceptions and Skills", with Sudip Bhattacharjee, Accounting Education - An International Journal, 10 (1), p. 83-103, 2001.

• “Enhancing Skills through Technology: A Project for Advanced Accounting Students”, with Sudip Bhattacharjee, Chapter 9 of Outcome Assessments in Your Library: An Action Plan, published by the American Library Association,  2002.

• "Fraudulent Audited Annual Financial Statements in Post-PSLA Private Securities Class Action: Determinants of
  Auditor Litigation", with Steven Freund and Ross D. Fuerman with Steven Freund and Ross D. Fuerman, Journal of Forensic Accounting, January-June 2002, pp. 69-90.

• "An Analysis of Trends in Doctoral Dissertations - 1991-2000". co-authors Marcela Porporato and Ariel Sandin, Advances in Accounting, forthcoming April 2003.

• "Electronic Commerce and State and Local Sales and Use Taxes: A Consumer Behavior Study", co-author James Angelini, Journal of State Taxation (22.2), forthcoming Summer 2003.

• "Surf City, Quickbooks Pro 2003 Accounting Information System Analysis and Design", co-author Kevin Kimball (BYU-Hawaii), AIS Section Compendium for Cases and Classroom (C3) Tools (supplement to Journal of Information Systems), forthcoming Summer 2003.

• "The Relationship of Accounting Majors’ Cognitive Style and Technological Proficiency: Are Students Prepared to Enter an Increasingly Knowledge-Based Profession?", Review of Business Information Systems, Summer 2003.

• "A Model for an American University in West Africa: The Suffolk University Experience", Parallax, Fall 2006.

• "An Assessment of Public Accountants’ Cognitive Style: Socialization through Attrition or Adaptation?” with Laurie Pant, Review of Business Information Systems, 10 (3), 35-46, 2006.

• "Teranga West Africa: Building Business Controls in a Developing Country Environment," with Morris McInnes, Global Perspectives in Accounting Education, Vol. 5, 2008.

Current Projects

• “Systems Thinking about Accounting Ethics:  Archetypes, Leverage Points, and Causal Loops”, with Laurie Pant and Tracy Noga, under second review in Journal of Business Ethics (May, 2008).

•  "The Efficacy of Providing PowerPoint Slides as a Supplement to Traditional Instructional Methods in Teaching Undergraduate Business Courses," with Jonathan Frank and Elizabeth Wilson, initial submission to Journal of Research on Technology in Education (April, 2008).

• “An Exploratory Assessment of Public Accountants’ Cognitive Style: Are There Cross-Cultural Differences?" with Laurie Pant and Anne D. Woodhead.

 

Academic Positions

• Instructor, Bay State College, Boston, 1991-1996
• Adjunct Faculty Positions from 1981-1996 at University of New Hampshire,  Bay State College, Nichols College, Dean College, and Suffolk University.

Other Positions

• International Banking (Bank Leumi LeIsrael), 1969-1976
• Public Accountant (J. Giordani & Co.), 1976-1978
• Various private and not-for-profit accounting positions as well as numerous entrepreneurial ventures, 1978-1991.

Professional Service/Leadership

• Training Program Presenter for accountants from the People’s Republic of China, 1996
• Recognition by the Internal Revenue Service for Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) coordinating, 1991-2002.
• Former Member of the Board of Directors, Boston Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) as Director of Manuscripts, 1996-2003.
• Former Member MSCPA Educational Foundation Board of Directors, 2002-2003.
• Member of the (IMA); Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants (MSCPA); American Accounting Association (AAA); and National Association of Tax Practitioners (NATP).
• Former Faculty Advisor for the Theta Delta Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, 1996-2003.
• Former Member Advisory Board, Jobs for Youth, Inc., Financial Services Program, 1996-2003.
• Former Member Advisory Board, Boston Private Industry Council, Summer Classroom in the Workplace Program, 2001-2003.
• Certified SCUBA Diving/CPR/First Aid Instructor.

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