TY - JOUR
T1 - Nicholas Dopuch (1929–2018)
T2 - Editor, Mentor, and Harbinger of a Quantitative Accounting Research Revolution
AU - Moehrle, Stephen R.
AU - Persson, Martin E.
AU - Reynolds-Moehrle, Jennifer A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by a fellowship from the University of Illinois, a fellowship from the Ford Foundation, and a stipend for two years of teaching duties, Nick graduated with a Master of Science in Accountancy in 1959 and then earned his Ph.D. in Accountancy in 1961. Current University of Illinois faculty member Mark Peecher describes Nick as ‘‘one of the single most accomplished and influential accountancy scholars to ever graduate from Illinois.’’5 This is well deserved, but high praise. For example, even Nick’s cohort at Illinois included such scholars of note as Floyd Windal, Donald Kieso, and Sybil Mobley. Each of these three would rise to become heads of their respective accounting departments at the Universities of Georgia, Northern Illinois, and Florida A&M.6 Of course, Donald Kieso would become a highly successful accounting textbook author as well.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - SYNOPSIS: Nicholas Dopuch (1929–2018), most recently on the faculty of the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, was an extraordinary accounting thinker, influential journal editor, prolific accounting researcher, and treasured colleague and mentor. By documenting his early upbringing, academic career, and professional activities, this memorial article summarizes the profound impact that Professor Dopuch had on the accounting academy and the many scholars and students with whom he worked. The article also analyzes Dopuch’s body of scholarship, and, in so doing, complements Kinney and Libby’s (1999) earlier assessment of his foundational contribution to research on credible financial reporting.
AB - SYNOPSIS: Nicholas Dopuch (1929–2018), most recently on the faculty of the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, was an extraordinary accounting thinker, influential journal editor, prolific accounting researcher, and treasured colleague and mentor. By documenting his early upbringing, academic career, and professional activities, this memorial article summarizes the profound impact that Professor Dopuch had on the accounting academy and the many scholars and students with whom he worked. The article also analyzes Dopuch’s body of scholarship, and, in so doing, complements Kinney and Libby’s (1999) earlier assessment of his foundational contribution to research on credible financial reporting.
KW - biography
KW - capital market research
KW - Journal of Accounting Research
KW - The University of Chicago
KW - University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign
KW - Washington University in St. Louis
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U2 - 10.2308/acch-10808
DO - 10.2308/acch-10808
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85139631225
SN - 0888-7993
VL - 36
SP - 167
EP - 177
JO - Accounting Horizons
JF - Accounting Horizons
IS - 2
ER -