Shields to receive IMA’s top teaching honor

Mike Shields

Mike Shields, Eli Broad Professor of Accounting, was recently selected to receive the 2006 Institute of Management Accounting (IMA) Lee Brummet Award.

The award recognizes the most distinguished teachers in management accounting based on a notable accounting teaching career, a record of scholarship in management accounting and service to the IMA.

Shields received a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978 and an honorary doctoral degree from the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration (Finland) in 2000. His teaching interests include managerial accounting, strategic management accounting, operational management accounting and management control systems; and his research uses psychology theories and research methods to study budgeting, performance measurement, performance evaluation and incentives. He has published over 50 journal articles and is a past editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research.

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