Michael Kenneth Shaub

Biography

Dr. Michael K. Shaub joined the faculty of Texas A&M University's Mays Business School in 2006 from St. Mary's University, where he was Emil C. E. Jurica Professor of Accounting. Prior to St. Mary's, he was a faculty member at the University of North Alabama, where he was honored as an Eminent Scholar in Accounting. He has spent the past twenty years researching accounting ethics issues, especially in large accounting firms. His current focus is on trust, suspicion and professional skepticism in auditor-client relationships, incentives motivating young accounting professionals, and auditors' judgments about the materiality of adjustments. Dr. Shaub was recently chosen to receive the Texas Society of CPAs' Outstanding Accounting Educator Award for 2008. He was selected as St. Mary's 2003-2004 Distinguished Faculty Award winner for the Bill Greehey School of Business, and he received the 2003 Commemorative Award for Faculty Research. He was Hillsdale College's Professor of the Year in 1998 and received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Business Administration in 1993. Beta Gamma Sigma named him one of five Richard Irwin Fellows in the nation in 1992. St. Mary's University chose Dr. Shaub as its nominee for the 2004 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, a national award sponsored by Baylor University and open to all academic disciplines. He was St. Mary's nominee again in 2006. Dr. Shaub's articles have been published in a wide variety of journals including Behavioral Research in Accounting, Accounting Horizons, Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting, Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Accounting Education. A reviewer for numerous accounting journals, he serves on the editorial board of Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting. He has served on the American Accounting Association's Professionalism and Ethics Committee and Auditing Section Education Committee, and as Vice-President of Regions for the AAA's Accounting, Behavior and Organizations section. He received his BBA in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin, and his MS and PhD degrees in Accounting from Texas Tech University. Dr. Shaub is a CPA in the state of Texas.

Education

BBA, University of Texas at Austin, 1977
MS, Texas Tech University, 1983
PhD, Texas Tech University, 1989