College of Business Collects Accolades
Dr. Gaurav Kumar, assistant professor of accounting, has won the 2012 Arkansas Society of CPAs’ Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award.
Kumar’s research areas are financial and international accounting. He started his research in the international accounting area during his Ph.D. program. His dissertation examined the voluntary disclosures by U.S.-listed Asian companies and was published in a highly regarded peer-reviewed journal. and has been published as a book.
In other College of Business news, Will Elliott , director of the executive MBA program and director of external relations, was elected chair of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce’s “Create Little Rock” Development Committee.
John Hendon, instructor in the Department of Management, has had his textbook, “Human Resource Management: Functions, Applications and Skill Development” published by Sage Publications in January.
Dr. Robert Oliva, chair of the Department of Accounting, had had his “Collecting Costs and Attorney’s Fees from the IRS: The Section 7430 Labyrinth,” was cover article in the December 2011 issue of “Warren, Gorham, and Lamont’s Practical Tax Strategies.”