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At Michael & Company, CPA our understanding of the changing tax laws ensures that we determine the best opportunities for tax savings for businesses. We make filing yearly tax returns easy and help our business clients select an entity that will bring the largest tax savings now and in the future.
Our highly-trained CPAs also excel at many industry-specific services and excel at helping our clients in the medical field with their accounting needs. We have experience helping dentists, doctors, pharmacies, hearing care, chiropractors and more.
Learn more about Michael & Company, CPA and our accounting and tax services by calling our Fresno office today at 559-436-8907 for a free, confidential consultation. We look forward to working with you.
Dr. Craven joined the Marist faculty in 2020 as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting after completing his PhD in accounting at Washington State University. His research focuses on compensation disclosures, particularly those for rank-and-file employees such as the pay ratio disclosure mandated by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, and related corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues. Dr. Craven enjoys teaching foundational courses in accounting and hopes to make them accessible to all students.
Dr. Michael Alles is a professor at the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Rutgers Business School. Prior to Rutgers, he taught at the University of Texas at Austin, New York University and Southern Methodist University. His specialties are the design of strategic control systems, continuous auditing, management accounting and corporate governance. He is widely published in all these areas. Dr. Alles holds a PhD from Stanford Business School and a First Class Honors in Economics from the Australian National University. He has served on the executive committee of the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association, was co-chair of the 2004 mid-year Management Accounting Research Symposium and has helped organize numerous other conferences around the world on corporate governance and continuous auditing. He is now the editor of the International Journal of Disclosure & Governance, published by Palgrave Macmillan in London.
Name: Gershberg, Tatiana
Graduation Date: 2016/October
Thesis Title: Log4Audit: The Application of Logging in Auditing and the Discussions of the Usage of Additional Evidence from Automated Audit System
Michael Iselin joined the Carlson School of Management in 2014. His research primarily focuses on the impact of new accounting standards and regulations on firm's decisions. He also has work related to financial institutions, bank regulation, risk management and corporate governance. His research has been published in The Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Management Science. Prior to joining Carlson Professor Iselin earned his PhD from the Fisher School of Business, The Ohio State University, and earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame.
Michael D. Kimbrough joined the Robert H. Smith School at University of Maryland in 2010 after spending eight years at Harvard Business School as a faculty member in the Accounting and Management Unit. Professor Kimbrough earned his B.A. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and his Ph.D. in Accounting from Indiana University in Bloomington. Prior to returning to graduate school for his doctoral studies, he worked as a certified public accountant with Price Waterhouse, where he worked with a variety of manufacturing and high-technology clients. Professor Kimbrough's research focuses on corporate financial reporting, with particular emphases on firms' voluntary disclosure practices and on accounting for intangible investment. His research has been published in leading academic journals including: The Accounting Review and Journal of Accounting Research. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and currently serves on the editorial board of The Accounting Review.
For more than 100 years, Gies Business has intentionally designed its innovative programs, leading-edge curriculum, and experiential learning opportunities to empower and prepare students to turn big ideas into meaningful actions.
Accounting Control Systems (ACCY 304) Explores an important framework that highlights the vital roles accounting control systems play in shaping and implementing organizational strategy. Components of this framework include internal controls, organizational missions and values, codes of ethics, performance measurement, evaluation, and reward systems. Case studies, class discussions, group exercises, and field research projects emphasize critical reasoning, data analytics, teamwork, and written and oral communication.
More than 20 centers and initiatives bring professionals and academics together to advance the future of business. Each one focuses on a critical part of industry, from supply chain management to blockchain and beyond.
Granof, Michael H., Ernst & Young Distinguished Centennial Professor in Accounting, Department of Accounting.
Prof. Granof is a member of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board.
He received his A.B. from Hamilton College, his M.B.A. from
Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His
research and teaching interests include accounting in governmental and
other nonprofit organizations and financial accounting.
William W. Cooper, Armando Gallegos, and Michael H. Granof. 1995. A Delphi Study of Goals and Evaluation Criteria of State and Privately Owned Latin American Airlines. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 29, 273-285.
Michael H. Granof. 1973. A Linear Programming Approach to the Resolution of Conflicts Between Labor and Management Over Wage and Benefit Increases, in Proceedings of Annual Meeting of American Institute for Decision Sciences,
Michael Cohn, editor-in-chief of AccountingToday.com, has been covering business and technology for a variety of publications since 1985. Prior to joining Accounting Today and WebCPA, he worked for Red Herring, Internet World, Beyond Computing, Accounting Technology and PC Magazine, and freelanced for a variety of other business publications. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English, he studied accounting at the Wharton School of Business, and currently lives in New York City.
As such, a solid understanding of accounting is vital for business leaders and intrinsic to the success of any company. That, in turn, makes an accounting degree and the skills that come with it highly desirable in the global marketplace.
The required courses in the accounting program build steadily on one another, culminating in a research-based seminar. Classmate and community partnerships are an integral part of our accounting discipline, as are the development and application of presentation skills.
There are also many other accounting-oriented career opportunities in corporations, government agencies and non-profit organizations that do not require licensing as a CPA and are therefore not subject to the 150-credit hour requirement.
To provide post-graduate opportunities for students in both Business Administration and Accounting, the Department has developed a number of agreements with colleges and universities (e.g., Northeastern, University of Vermont) that will allow facilitated admission for our alumni into graduate accounting programs. Contact Professor Steve Doyon for details.
The accounting program has a long history of successful internship placements with local organizations and accounting firms and uses its network of well-placed alumni to find excellent opportunities with larger market accounting firms for its students. Internship sites for accounting students include:
Michael Minnis studies the role of accounting information in allocating investment efficiently by both managers and capital providers. His recent research focuses on understanding the role of privately held companies in the U.S. economy and how these firms use financial reporting to access, deploy, and manage capital. He particularly enjoys identifying unique data and methods to empirically examine issues in a novel way.
Effective January 2018, Minnis became a member of the Private Company Council, the primary advisory council to the Financial Accounting Standards Board on private company issues. In this role he helps FASB understand the effects of accounting standards on private companies and helps shape new standards as they relate to private companies. He has also been engaged in consulting projects, working with the investment bank Lincoln International to develop and launch the Lincoln Middle Market Index which tracks the value of private middle market companies.
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