St. Bonaventure University

ST. BONAVENTURE FACULTY

Fischer, Michael J.

  • mike-fischer

    • ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
    Accounting
    ACADEMIC SCHOOL
    School of Business

    TITLES/RESPONSIBILITIES
    Professor, Accounting
    4+1 BBA/MBA Professional Accountancy Program Director
    CONTACT
    Office phone: (716) 375-2186
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    OFFICE
    Swan Business Center 204B
    COURSES TAUGHT
    Recent Courses Taught:
    • MBA 616. Accounting Practice & Analysis
    • MBA 635. Accounting Theory & Research
    ACADEMIC DEGREES
    • Ph.D., Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University
    • M.B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo
    • B.S., State University of New York at Buffalo
    OTHER EDUCATION

    PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
    • Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, St. Bonaventure University
    • Dean, School of Business, St. Bonaventure University
    • Dean, Enrollment Management, St. Bonaventure University
    • Audit Manager, Price Waterhouse
    ACCOMPLISHMENTS
    Selected Publications
    • Relevance Regained? An Examination of the Contents of Introduction to Management Accounting. 2016.  Academy of Business Research Journal. Forthcoming.
    • The Place of Business Profits: A Franciscan Perspective from Luca Pacioli. Franciscan Connections: The Cord – A Spiritual Review. March, 2016. pp. 16-17.
    • Earnings Management and Corporate Social Responsibility: An In-Class Exercise to Illustrate the Short-Term and Long-Term Consequences. (with Carol M. Fischer). Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations. 2009. Volume 10, pp. 1-25.
    • Luca Pacioli on Business Profits, Journal of Business Ethics, June II 2000, pp. 299-312.
    • "Real-izing" the Benefits of New Technologies as a Source of Audit Evidence: An Interpretive Field Study, Accounting, Organizations and Society, February/April 1996, pp. 219-242.
    • Strategy, Technology and Social Processes within Professional Cultures: A Negotiated Order, Ethnographic Perspective, (with Mark W. Dirsmith), Symbolic Interaction, November 1995, pp. 381-412.
    • Enhancing Audit Efficiency Using New Technologies, (with John P. McAllister), The CPA Journal, November 1993, pp. 58-62.
    • Short-Cutting FASB no. 96's Scheduling Exercise, Journal of Accountancy, February 1989, pp. 42-44.
    TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
    CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS/PROJECTS
    PERSONAL INTERESTS/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
    • Board of Directors, Cattaraugus County Business Development Corporation (currently Vice President)
    • Board of Directors, Cattaraugus County Empire Zone Corporation
    • Board of Directors, Chautauqua Lake Estates Association 
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