BIO

ARAYA DEBESSAY

Department of Accounting and Management Information Systems

Lerner College of Business and Economics

University of Delaware, Newark DE

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(September 2009)

  1. HOME ADDRESS: 7 Spring Water, Newark, DE 19711

II. ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Ph.D.Syracuse University, Major: Accounting, Minor: Finance and Economics

M.B.ASyracuse University, (GPA 3.84/4); Major: Finance

M.S. Syracuse University, (GPA 4/4);Major: Accounting

B. Com. Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (with distinction)

III. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION:

¨Certified Management Accountant (CMA), (inactive)

¨Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), (inactive)

Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Delaware (inactive)

IV. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

1990- present, Professor of Accounting,University of Delaware.

19831990, Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Delaware.

19781983, Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Delaware.

V. TEACHING AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

  • 2003 Student Choice Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
  • 1991 Innovation in Business Education Award, from the Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration.
  • 1989 University of Delaware Excellence-in-Teaching Award
  • 1988 Dean's nominee for a State Professor of the Year Competition, sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), 1988, Certificate of Recognition.
  • 1988 and 1980 Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Accounting, College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware.

VII. COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate Program

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Graduate Program

  1. Advance Accounting
  2. Auditing
  3. Cost Accounting
  4. Intermediate Accounting I
  5. Intermediate Accounting II
  6. Introduction to Financial Accounting
  7. Introduction to Managerial Accounting.
8. International Accounting /
  1. Financial Reporting and Analysis.
  2. Management Accounting.
  3. Contemporary Issues in Accounting.
  4. International Accounting
  5. Theory of External Reporting
  6. Management Control Systems and IT

  • CPE Classes – for The Siegfried Group, the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), and Financial Executives International (FEI).

VI. PROFESSIONAL and CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

  • Member of the Supervisory (Audit) Committee, of the University of Delaware Credit Union, since 2006
  • Member of the Audit Committee, American Red Cross of the Delmarva Peninsula, since 2008.
  • Member of the Audit Committee, the Delaware Public Employees’ Retirement System’s Audit Committee, since March 2009.
  • Technical Consultant, The Siegfried Group, LLP. Served in a variety of accounting, auditing, review, and compilation activities; miscellaneous consulting activities in the financial reporting area, including serving as an Internal Inspector of Quality Control for Peer Evaluation; handled technical accounting and auditing related questions submitted by accounting professionals of the firm; posted hot topics on the firm’s intranet on topics related to recent development in accounting and auditing.
  • W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Newark, DE - involved in assessing internal control system, and conducting CPE workshops to accounting professionals (sabbatical year, September 2003- May 2004).
  • Coopers and Lybrand, General Audit Staff, while on sabbatical leave from the University of Delaware. June 1984 August 1985.
  • E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc., 1981 to 1984, consulting Professional Development Program in Management Accounting, a program designed to develop managerial accounting skills leading to the Certificate in Management Accounting (CMA).
  • Test Developer and Reviewer In Principle of Accounting, The Chauncey Group International, Princeton, New Jersey, Summer 2002.
  • AICPA CPA Exam Developer and Reviewer, Fall 2002.

VIII. SERVICE ACTIVITIES

  • Chair, Department of Accounting and MIS, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2009 –
  • Member, Lerner College of Business and Economics, Promotion and Tenure Committee.
  • Chair, Teaching Advisory Committee, Departemnt of Accounting and Management Information Systems, August 2009.
  • Chair, Building and Nurturing a Welcoming Campus Climate Committee, University of Delaware, sinceFebruary 2009.
  • Member, University of Delaware Diversity Action Council, since February 2009
  • Co-Chair – University of Delaware Diversity Task Force – February 2008 – Dec 2008.
  • Chair, African Heritage Caucus Board, University of Delaware, 2009 -
  • Member of a sub-committee of the Lerner College of Business & Economics Advisory Board, since 2007.
  • Banner Carrier Marshall, College of Business and Economics, since 2008.
  • Faculty Senator 2005- present 2009
  • Member, Faculty Senate Committee on General Education 2004 - 2009
  • Member, Committee to Select an External Auditing Firm for the New Castle County, DE, Spring 2003.
  • Reviewer of papers for the AAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting and the Annual Meeting of the AAA, 2000-2008
  • Chair, President's Commission to Promote Racial and Cultural Diversity at the University of Delaware, 1994-1998.
  • University Grand Marshall, 1994-2007
  • President, Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Accounting Association. 1988-1989.
  • Chairperson, Association of Eritrean Professionals and Academics for Development (AEPAD), 1997-98.
  • Founder and President, Eritrean Accounting Association, 1996-98.
  • Program Director, 1989 Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association.
  • Member, Editorial Board, ACCOUNTING HORIZONS, 1997-2000.

IX. PUBLICATIONS : Two books, and over 40 journal and proceedings articles. No new publications since 2005.

  • Recent paper, “Why Ethiopia Should Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards, (IFRS),” presented at the Ministry of Finance, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 3, 2009.

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