Dr. Gaurav Kumar, assistant professor of accounting in UALR’s College of Business, has won the 2012 Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award from the Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Kumar’s research areas include financial and international accounting. He started his research in the international accounting arena while studying for his doctorate. His dissertation examined the voluntary disclosures by U.S.-listed Asian companies and was published in a highly regarded peer-reviewed journal and has since 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, had his textbook, “Human Resource Management: Functions, Applications and Skill Development” published by Sage Publications in January.

Dr. Robert Oliva, professor of accounting, wrote the cover article in the December 2011 issue of Warren, Gorham, and Lamont’s Practical Tax Strategies titled, “Collecting Costs and Attorney’s Fees from the IRS: The Section 7430 Labyrinth.”