Professor of Clinical Accounting

• MERLE W. HOPKINS

PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL ACCOUNTING

LEVENTHAL SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

LOS ANGELES, CA 90089-0441

ACC B4a (213) 740-4857

Professional Objectives

To pursue my goals of university service and teaching excellence.

I seek to make an impact on the graduate and undergraduate accounting

programs in a variety of ways. Elearning [distance learning] was a significant part of my teaching activity in 2004-2011.

Research and Consulting Interests and Publication

My dissertation was titled “An Investigation of Cash Flow Data to Provide

an Alternative Specification of the Systematic Risk Measure: An

Empirical Study.” The principal objective of this research was to provide

support for the hypothesized importance of expected cash flows to firms.

I have an interest in retaining ties to the public accounting

profession. I expect to continue to be involved in the Becker CPA

Review Program.

I have undertaken a few limited consulting engagements and I expect to

pursue these opportunities as time permits.

“Small Firm Securities Registration in the S-18 ERA: Perceptions of

Professionals,” The Corporation Law Review, February 1985 (with Jerry

L. Arnold).

Previous consulting engagements involved developing the financial and

managerial accounting training module for the Loan Officer Training

Program for Security Pacific National Bank (1984-1985). In 1985 the

bank eliminated its Loan Office Training Program in a move to become a

“money center” bank rather than continue efforts in “retail” banking. [In

addition, I had developed a similar accounting training module for

Union Bank in Los Angeles (1983-1986). I ended my role at Union

Bank when I started at Price Waterhouse in 1986.]

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• In 1999 and later years, I was invited to participate in several programs through the Center for Executive Education at the Marshall School of Business. There were programs of varying lengths customized for the needs of the client partners. One major engagement involved recording 20 hours of financial accounting lectures for television broadcast in Japan [the ‘BBT’ program]. My course in this program is titled ‘Corporate Financial Reporting’. Additionally, I co-developed an accounting course with USC Professor Robert Trezevant for Amgen. I taught seven of the 20 four-hour classes and my co-developer taught five classes. Academic specialists taught the remainder of the 20 classes. All of these classes were held in the early months of 2000.

• I am currently involved with several major on-going programs through the Center for Executive Education within Marshall School of Business: Northrup Grumman program, Management Development Program, Master of Medical Management Program [MMM see below] and the Food Industry Executive Program [FIEP].

• I was the Faculty Advisor for the ‘BBT’ program in which the university was partnered with a Japanese firm to deliver courses to mid-career businessmen and women in the Tokyo area. I also taught the principles of financial accounting course that was part of this program. This university ended this program due to continuing conflicts with the University’s Japanese partner.

• I was involved in the development of the curriculum for the MMM program at Marshall School of Business. I am the Faculty Director of this program [March 2012-present]. I continue to teach the financial and managerial accounting components.

• I developed a ‘distance learning’ course [ACCT 509] that was offered on-line for the first time in late 2003. This course has had graduate students from many fields across this university. This course has been offered all but one semester since spring 2006. I have recorded updated versions of this course each two years most recently in spring 2012.

• In 2004, the first offerings of the eLearning version of my Core Concepts of Accounting course were offered to students in the Marshall School of Business at USC. This online course was offered for the first time in spring 2004. In fall 2005 this delivery was changed to permit students to see lectures that had been ‘captured’ digitally for this purpose. In fall 2009 this course was ‘recaptured’ and those recordings were the substance of the online sections of BUAD 250a.

• I continue to teach each summer in the ‘intensive’ accounting program that is part of the Master of Accounting degree for students without an undergraduate background in accounting. My involvement was expanded in summer 2008 to include both halves of intermediate financial accounting.

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• I was heavily involved in theroll-out of BUAD 280 having taught eight of these sections through fall 2012.

• In fall 2014 I taught two sections of BUAD 285a [the current version of principles of accounting].

Educational Experience

Michigan State University, Department of Accounting, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

My doctoral degree in Accounting included minors in Educational

Statistics, Economics, and Finance.

The dissertation was completed in early 1982.

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo 49007

Completed a Master of Science in Accountancy in 1975.

Completed a B.A. in 1968 with a major in History and a minor in

Political Science.

Teaching Experience

University of Southern California -Professor of Clinical

Accounting (1995 to present)

-Assistant Professor (1981 to 1984)

and Assistant Dean (1984-1986)

Mega Sections and eLearning versions Principles if Accounting for full-time MBA students [2014]

Pepperdine University-Associate Professor (1989 to 1994)

Principles of Financial and

Managerial Accounting

Managerial Finance

(Graduate and undergraduate

levels)

Michigan State University-Graduate Assistant (1977-1980)

Intermediate Cost Accounting

Intermediate Financial Accounting

Principles of Finance

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Western Michigan University-Graduate Assistant (1975)

-Part-time Instructor (1976)

Principles of Accounting

University Service Activities

Appointed in August 2002 to serve on the national Board of Directors of Beta Alpha Psi. My duties included serving as the Regional Director for the Western and Northwestern Regions. My term as Regional Director ended in August 2005. [Formerly, I served as the Faculty Advisor for USC’s Iota Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi (1996-2002).]

●I served as the Chair for the 2008 Annual Meeting for Beta Alpha Psi. The bulk of the approximate 600 hours were spent in the first seven months of 2008. The 2008 annual meeting was held in Anaheim in August and attracted more than 1,200 attendees from across the United States.

●In 2013 I served on 3 committees related to securing clinical faculty positions for three individuals: Robert Riley, Tom Ryan and Lori Smith. Much of this activity was in preparing the files for securing their respective positions at Leventhal School of Accounting. In 2016, I served as chair of the PEG committee in the promotion of Professor Zivia Sweeney.

●In 2013 I began developing the ‘Leventhal Project’ for our future use in this school. The name of this project is not final. The project will allow interested parties to search through a database for names of individuals and firms for pictures and documents. These pictures and documents are being identified in the University Archives and in the Development files of Jeannie Bowman.

●I was informed that I would be selected to assume the duties of president-elect of Beta Alpha Psi effective August 2015. This will be a three-year commitment ending in August 2018. I served as president-elect for the first year, president the second year and now as past-president in the third year. Beta Alpha Psi has well over 300 chapters in the US with membership of about 11,000 persons.

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Professional Employment History

Price WaterhouseRegional Director of Recruiting and

400 South Hope StreetDirector of Los Angeles Office

Los Angeles, CA 90071-2889Recruiting (1986-1989)

Spring Arbor Lumber CompanyInterim controller (1976)

7700 Spring Arbor Road

Spring Arbor, MI 49823

Bristol, Leisenring CPAsStaff Accountant (1975-1976)

(Now Plante and Moran CPAs)

16 North Clay Street

Coldwater, MI 49016

Professional Organizations

Beta Alpha Psi

Awards and Honors

American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow (1978)

Michigan State University Excellence-in-Teaching Citation (1979). This award goes annually to six graduate assistants throughout the university. The recipients are selected on the basis of student evaluations and other recommendations.

• Recipient of the Faculty Award from the University of Southern California’s Iota

Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi (1982 and 1986)

Recipient of the Excellence-in-Teaching Award from Michigan State University’s Alpha Omicron Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi (1979)

Recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award of the Sigma Nu Fraternity at the University of Southern California (1982)

Elected to Honorary Membership in:

Blue Key Leadership Fraternity (USC-1983)

Mortar Board (USC-1984)

Order of Omega Leadership Fraternity (USC-1984)

Inducted into Skull and Dagger-USC’s oldest honorary fraternity (1986)

Recipient of the Faculty Award by The USC Student Senate (1986)

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Recipient of the Golden Apple Award presented by the students within The Marshall School of Business (USC – 1985, 2007, 2011, 2014 and 2017)

Recipient of the Professor of the Year Award presented by Gamma Sigma Alpha, the

USC Honor Society for members of the Greek System demonstrating high scholastic Achievement (1999, 2000 & 2001). Recipient of the Professor of the Year award by Sigma Chi fraternity at USC in 2000.

●Marshall Students selected me as the Most Popular Business Faculty member in the Marshall School of Business in a Business Week poll conducted during the 2005-2006 school year.

●Received Honorable Mention by the USC Parents’ Association in October 2006. This recognition resulted from parents’ nominations of university faculty members and the final selections were by the leaders of the Parents’ Council at USC.