Charles Davis
Professor - Accounting and Business Law
Contact Information
Educational Background
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PHD - Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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MBA - Accounting, University of Richmond
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BBA - Accounting, College of William and Mary
Work Experience
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Adjunct Professor, Furman University (January 2015 - Present)
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Adjunct Professor, Clemson University (September 2014 - December 2014)
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Emerson O. Henke Chair of Accounting, Baylor University (2006 - 2014)
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Walter Plumhoff Professor of Accounting, Baylor University (November 2004 - 2014)
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Professor, Baylor University (August 2004 - Present)
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Associate Professor, Baylor University (August 1997 - August 2004)
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Assistant Professor, Baylor University (August 1991 - July 1997)
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Graduate Instructor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (January 1988 - May 1991)
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Financial Systems Accountant, Investors Savings Bank (January 1987 - August 1987)
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Staff Consultant, Coopers & Lybrand (January 1985 - December 1986)
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Financial Systems Analyst, Reynolds Metals Company (October 1983 - December 1985)
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Assistant Cost Accountant, Reynolds Metals Company (June 1983 - October 1983)
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Accounting Trainee, Reynolds Metals Company (July 1981 - June 1983)
Consulting
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Academic, Tarleton State University Department of Accounting, Stephenville, TX (April 10, 2007 - April 30, 2007)
Awards and Honors
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Certificate of Merit, Institute of Management Accountants (July 2021)
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Lybrand Gold Medal, Institute of Management Accountants (May 2021)
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Certificate of Merit, Institute of Management Accountants (July 2020)
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Certificate of Merit, Institute of Management Accountants (June 2013)
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Dr. Richard Couey Award for Excellence, Phi Kappa Chi Fraternity (April 14, 2010)
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Outstanding Service Award, American Accounting Association ABO Section (October 2005)
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Certificate of Merit, Institute of Management Accountants (2004)
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Certificate of Merit, Institute of Management Accountants (2003)
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Lybrand Gold Medal, Institute of Management Accountants (1999)
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Outstanding Dissertation Award, American Accounting Association Auditing Section (August 1992)
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New Faculty Consortium Fellow, American Accounting Association (February 1992)
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Doctoral Consortium Fellow, American Accounting Association (June 1990)
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Maurice W. Lee Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Business (April 27, 1990)
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Beta Gamma Sigma, College of William and Mary (April 1981)
Licensures and Certifications
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CMA, IMA (July 2015 - Present)
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CGMA, AICPA (July 31, 2012 - Present)
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CPA, Virginia State Board of Accountancy (July 24, 1984 - Present)
Professional Memberships
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ABO Section President (2001-2002), Web Administrator Committee Chair (1999-2007), APLG Executive Committee (2009-2011), APLG President Elect (2011-2012), APLG President (2012-2013), American Accounting Association
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American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
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IMA
Publications
Teaching and Learning Scholarship
"Bringing Creativity into the Accounting Classroom,"
Strategic Finance, (March 2024).
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Developing Creative Accountants,"
Strategic Finance, Vol. 102, No. 10/April 2021, (April 2021), pp. 48-54 (coauthors: Anthony Herrera, Ross E McClain).
"Four Design Choices That Can Make or Break Your Slide Deck,"
Strategic Finance, Vol. 101, No. 11 (May 2020), (May 2020), pp. 40-47.
Teaching and Learning Scholarship
"Instructor's Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 4th ed.," (January 2020) (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
"Narrated PowerPoint Slides for Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting, 4th ed.," (January 2020).
"PowerPoint Slides to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 4th ed.," (January 2020) (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
"Solutions Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 4th ed.," (January 2020) (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
Managerial Accounting, 4th ed., Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, December 2019 (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Ten Tips to Improve Your Presentation Slide Deck,"
Strategic Finance, Vol. C, No. 11, (May 2019), pp. 42-49.
Teaching and Learning Scholarship
"Instructor's Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 3rd ed.," (August 2017) (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
"Narrated PowerPoint Slides for Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting, 3rd ed.," (August 2017).
"PowerPoint Slides to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 3rd ed.," (August 2017) (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
"Solutions Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 3rd ed.," (August 2017) (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
Managerial Accounting 3rd ed., Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, December 2016 (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Exercising Professional Skepticism: How to Behave Like a Skeptic,"
Today's CPA, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Nov./Dec.), (November 2016), pp. 24-29 (coauthors: R. K. Hurtt).
"Closing the Generation Gap: Tips for Interviewing Millennials,"
Today's CPA, Vol. 42, No. 2, (September 2014), pp. 32-35 (coauthors: Anthony Herrera).
Teaching and Learning Scholarship
"Instructor's Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 2nd ed.," (September 2013).
"Narrated PowerPoint Slides for Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting," (September 2013).
"PowerPoint Slides to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 2nd ed.," (September 2013) (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
"Solutions Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 2nd ed.," (September 2013).
Managerial Accounting 2nd ed., Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, September 2013.
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Preparing for the Job Interview: The Interviewer's Responsibility,"
Strategic Finance, Vol. XCIV, No. 9, (March 2013), pp. 47-51 (coauthors: Anthony Herrera).
"Kissing Frogs: Hiring the wrong person is more costly than you know," (December 2012).
"A Potential Resurgence of Outsourcing: Essential Questions Answered,"
CPA Journal, The, Vol. LXXXII, No. 10 (October), (October 2012), pp. 56-61.
Teaching and Learning Scholarship
"Narrated PowerPoint Slides for Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting," (March 2012).
"Instructor's Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 1st Edition," (September 2011) (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
"PowerPoint Slides to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 1st Edition," (September 2011) (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
"Backpack to Briefcase: The Transition from Student to Accounting Professional,"
Advances in Accounting Education, Vol. 12, No. 2011, (September 2011), pp. 33-52 (coauthors: Gia Chevis, R. K. Hurtt).
"Solutions Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting 1st Edition," (September 2011) (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
Managerial Accounting, Hoboken, NJ, July 2011 (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
"Instructor's Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting Preliminary Edition," (October 2010) (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
"PowerPoint Slides to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting Preliminary Edition," (October 2010) (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
"Solutions Manual to Accompany Davis & Davis Managerial Accounting Preliminary Edition," (October 2010) (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
Managerial Accounting, Preliminary Edition, Hoboken, NJ, October 2010 (coauthors: Elizabeth Davis).
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"To Roth or Not To Roth?,"
Journal of Accountancy, Vol. 203, No. 2, February, (February 2007), pp. 64-67 (coauthors: Delton L. Chesser, Timothy Thomasson).
"How to Create an Activity Management Program That Lasts,"
Strategic Finance, Vol. LXXXV, No. 8, February, (February 2004), pp. 40-45 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis, Brad Anderson, Mick Twomey).
Teaching and Learning Scholarship
"Garden Patch Foods: Analyzing the Purchase-Through-Payables Process," Vol. 18, No. 4, (November 2003), pp. 369-383 (coauthors: E. B. Davis).
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Web-based Reporting: A View for the Future,"
Strategic Finance, Vol. LXXXV, No. 3, (September 2003), pp. 44-49 (coauthors: Whit P. Keuer, Curtis Clements).
"Web-based Reporting,"
CPA Journal, The, Vol. LXX11, No. 11, November, (November 2002), pp. 28-34 (coauthors: Whit P. Keuer, Curtis Clements).
Teaching and Learning Scholarship
"The Field of Accounting: Bridging the Distance Between the Classroom and Practice,"
Baylor Business Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, (January 2002), pp. 12-13.
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Electronically-based Business and Financial Reporting," AICPA Top Ten Technologies Website, January 1, 2001.
"Electronic Evidence," AICPA Top Ten Technologies Website, January 1, 2001.
Teaching and Learning Scholarship
"Tearing Down the Stovepipes: One Program's Experience in Designing an Integrated Accounting Core Curriculum,"
Advances in Accounting Education, Vol. 3, (2000), pp. 125-150 (coauthors: Charles W. Thomas, Jane Baldwin, Delton Chesser, D Hollingsworth, Michael A. Robinson).
"Online Multimedia Accounting Review," (2000).
"Delectable Deliveries, Inc.," Vol. 5, No. 1, (1999), pp. 32-37 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis, Brad Copeland).
Basic or Discovery Scholarship
"Quality Review, Continuing Professional Education, Experience and Substandard Performance: An Empirical Study,"
Accounting Horizons, Vol. 12, No. 4, (December 1998), pp. 340-362 (coauthors: Charles W. Thomas, Samuel L. Seaman).
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Outsourcing the Procurement-Through-Payables Process," Vol. 80, No. 1, (July 1998), pp. 38-44 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis, L. A. Moore).
"The Internet,"
, New York, 1998, pp. 39-50.
Basic or Discovery Scholarship
"Audit Task and Audit Methodology as Determinants of Auditors' Elicitation of Alternative Knowledge Organization Structures,"
Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, Vol. 1, (1998), pp. 101-121 (coauthors: E. B. Davis).
"Perceived Risks and Threats to Accounting Information Systems,"
Review of Accounting Information Systems, Vol. 1, No. 4, (October 1997), pp. 13-24.
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"An Assessment of Accounting Information System Security,"
CPA Journal, The, Vol. LXVII, No. 3, (March 1997), pp. 28-34.
Basic or Discovery Scholarship
"An Investigation of the Impact of Market Discipline on Individuals' Price Revisions,"
Advances in Accounting, Vol. 15, (1997), pp. 125-168 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis, Daniel P. Murphy).
"Experience and the Organization of Auditors' Knowledge,"
Managerial Auditing Journal, Vol. 12, No. 8 & 9, (1997), pp. 411-422.
"Learning from Experience in Performing Analytical Procedures,"
Training Research Journal, Vol. 3, (1997), pp. 59-79 (coauthors: Edward Blocher, Rien Bouwman).
Teaching and Learning Scholarship
"Accounting is Like a Box of Chocolates," Vol. 15, No. 3, (1997), pp. 307-318.
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Computer Crime 101: What Every Accountant Should Know,"
Today's CPA, (July 1996), pp. 38-41 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis).
Basic or Discovery Scholarship
"Information Load and Consistency of Decisions,"
Psychological Reports, Vol. 79, (1996), pp. 279-288 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis).
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
"Perceived Threats to Today's Accounting Information Systems: A Survey of CISAs,"
IS Audit & Control Journal, No. III, (1996), pp. 38-41.
"Surfing the Internet: A CPA's Guide to Riding the On-line Wave,"
Today's CPA, (January 1996), pp. 38-40 (coauthors: Elizabeth B. Davis).
"Computing the Future of Client/Server Systems,"
Today's CPA, (July 1995), pp. 26-30 (coauthors: Mark Dunkel).
Teaching and Learning Scholarship
"X-Oil, Inc.: An Instructional Case in Internal Control for the Payables Cycle," Vol. 7, No. 2, (October 1993), pp. 112-133 (coauthors: Kris Lonborg).
Basic or Discovery Scholarship
"Presentation Format and Complexity Effects on Judgment and Recall in a Risk Analysis Task,"
, Norman, OK, 1991, pp. 138-157 (coauthors: S. Moriarity, Ed Blocher).
Presentations and Proceedings
Teaching and Learning Scholarship
"Farmville Country Day School: Applying Managerial Accounting in the Service Sector," presented at the MAS/IMA Case Teaching Conference, Ames, IA, September 2023 (coauthors: Bradley Lail).
"Developing Creative Accountants," presented at the Wiley Faculty Network, May 2022.
"What Does Creativity Look Like for Accounting Professionals?," presented at the AAA weARE Webinar Series, August 2021.
"Moving Your Managerial Accounting Course Online," presented at the Wiley Faculty Network, April 2020.
"Getting Started with Data Analytics: Beginner Edition," presented at the Wiley Business School Workshop: Connecting Classrooms to Careers, New Orleans, LA, February 2020.