Dr. Bob Boylan CPA
rboylan@ju.edu
2800 University Blvd N
Jacksonville, FL 32211
(904) 256-7496
EDUCATION:
1990
Duke University, Durham, NC.
Ph.D. in Economics.
Concentrations in Public Finance, Monetary Theory, and Econometrics.
1979
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.
MBA with concentrations in Finance and Accounting.
1976
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.
Bachelor of Arts
Major in Accounting, minor in Economics.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
2003 – Present
Davis College of Business, Jacksonville University
Jacksonville, FL
Professor of Accounting
Courses include EMBA accounting, MBA accounting, and upper level
undergraduate accounting classes.
2010 - Present
Chair of Accounting and Finance Department
Work includes the design and implementation of the Accounting and
Finance curricula, the advisement and placement of Accounting and
Finance students and the evaluation and mentoring of the Accounting and
Finance faculty.
2005 - 2010
Director of Accounting Program
Work includes the design and implementation of the accounting
curriculum as well as the advisement and placement of accounting
students.
2002-2003
Coggin School of Business, University of North Florida
Jacksonville, FL
Visiting Professor of Accounting
Courses included Intermediate Accounting I, Intermediate Accounting III,
and Cost Accounting.
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1987- 2002
School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY.
Clinical Professor of Management.
Courses include accounting at the undergraduate, MBA, and EMBA
accounting at all levels.
Designed and implemented on-line courses that received exceptional
support from corporations such as IBM, Ford, and GM.
Distance enrollment was in excess of 100 students per course. These
courses generated over $400,000 in incremental tuition revenue per year.
1997 - 2002
Director of China Research Project (RPI)
Work included the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information
about Wholly Owned Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures in the Tianjin Area
in Northern China. Numerous Cabals papers have come from the project.
1995 – 2002
1990 – 2001
Director of Advising and Curriculum - EMBA Program (RPI)
Director of Accounting Concentration (RPI)
2000 – 2002
Duxx School of Business Leadership
Monterrey, Mexico
Professor of Accounting. Responsible for the design and delivery of the
Financial and Managerial Accounting sequence at this prestigious
international graduate school.
1982-1987
Department of Economics, Duke University
Durham, NC.
Lecturer. Taught various classes in the School of Economics while
working on a Ph.D. in Economics.
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:
1991 - Present
Boylan CPA
Principal of a small accounting and consulting practice specializing in
financial and tax strategy for individuals and small firms.
2002 – 2006
National Financial Resources, Jacksonville, FL
Associate in a financial planning organization with specializations in tax,
estate, and retirement planning.
1994 – 2002
School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Corporate Training. Provided corporate training in the accounting and
finance areas for clients such as IBM, GE, and Albany International. Was
awarded the highest rating of all the presenters for each program.
2000 - 2002
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Raptor Group
Lake George, NY
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Principal Partner in this consulting firm which focused on corporate
training and corporate financial strategy.
Main Hurdman (now KPMG), Philadelphia, PA.
1980-1982
Senior Auditor and Senior Tax Consultant.
Duties included design and supervision of audits of small and medium
sized clients. In addition, duties included supervision and performance of
tax work for corporate and individual clients.
SEPARATE CONSULTING ENGAGEMENTS:
Battelle Inc
Three year contract to facilitate development of silicon based technologies.
Norton Inc.
Report on how silicon based technologies affect Norton’s products.
Wright Patterson Two extensive studies, funded by the Unite States Air Force: one on the
technological and managerial impact of silicon base technologies, the
second on technological/practical application of ‘silicon on insulator’ (SOI)
technologies.
SEMI Inc.
Various reports on the semiconductor equipment industry.
Various Firms
Financial strategy and financial training projects.
REFEREED PAPERS:
“MEMS and Stiction: Manufacturing Problems in an Emerging Technology.”
with S. Walsh, Microcontamination, (March, 1995).
“The Strategic Development of HARM Manufacturing Technologies”, with
Walsh, S., Carr, W., Elders, J., Warrington, R. in HARMST, Vol 1, 11/95 pp. 4671.
“Infrastructure Considerations for the Emerging MEMS Marketplace”, with
Walsh, S., Carr, W., and Warrington, R., in SPIE The International Society for
Optical Engineering, Oct. 1995, vol. 2639, pp. 114-134.
“MEMS and Robust Manufacturing - So Close and Yet So Far”, with Walsh, S.,
Carr, W., and Paulson, A., Manufacturing Science and Technology: Facing the
Challenges of Manufacturing, Vol 1, October 1995, pp. 135-155.
“The Strategic Development of HARM Manufacturing Technologies”, with
Walsh, Warrington, Carr, and Elders. Microsystem Technologies. August 1996.
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“Linking Core Products and Core Capabilities Over Time: Evidence from the
Semiconductor Silicon Industry”, with Walsh, et al. al., Informs 1996.
“The Emerging Infrastructure for MEMS Based Sensor Innovation”, with Walsh
and J Elders. The Journal of Applied Sensing, Fall 1996.
"Founder Backgrounds and Entrepreneurial Success: Implications for CORE
Competence Strategy Applications to New Ventures", with Walsh S., Kirchhoff
B., Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, (1996) pp 146 – 154.
“China Steps into the International Market”, with Walsh, S., Burke, R., Knoth,
W., & Simons G., Journal of Business, Spring, 1998.
“Direct Foreign Manufacturing Investment Decision for China”, with Steven T.
Walsh, Ph.D., Dr. Richard Burke, Ph.D., and Dennis Huzey. Engineering
Management Journal, Vol 11 No. 4, December 1999.
“Mobius Green Energy” Accepted to On-line Case Journal of Engineering
Management Society, 2000.
“Mobius Green Energy – Teaching Note” Accepted to On-line Case Journal of
Engineering Management Society, 2000.
“A Financial Modeling View of Radical Innovation” with Jim Mote and Mark
Rice, special issue of Engineering Management Journal on Radical Innovation,
September, 2001.
“The Evolution of Technology Management Practice in Developing Economies:
Lessons from Northern China”, with Walsh, S., Linton, J., and Sylla, C. (2002)
International Journal of High Technology Management, Vol 24, No. 3.
“Stakeholder Value Creation in Knowledge Intensive Areas: Theory Development
and Exploratory Study”, with Steve Walsh, Gene Simons, and Ann Tam. (2003),
Estrategica, Sao Paulo, Vol 1, No. 4.
“Disruptive Technology Roadmaps”, with Ronald Kostoff and Gene Simons.
Special Issue of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, v 71, (Jan/Feb
2004) p141-159.
“The Semiconductor Silicon Industry Roadmap: Epochs Driven by the Dynamics
between Disruptive Technologies and Core Competencies”, with Steven Walsh
and Albert Paulson. Special Issue of Technological Forecasting and Social
Change, (Feb 2005) 72(2), pp 213-236). Awarded “Paper of the Year” by
Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
“Insider Ownership and Stock Price Performance: How Greater Concentrations of
Insider Ownership Affects Returns of Firms with Various Price-to-Earnings
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Ratios” (2009) with Robert Houmes and Denise Dickens, Journal of Theoretical
Accounting Research, 4 (2).
“Has the Adoption of SFAS 158 Caused Firms to Understate Pension Liability? A
Preliminary Study of the Financial Reporting Impact of SFAS 158”. (2010) With
Robert Houmes. Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal, 14 (4).
“Are Equity Incentives Effective in Chinese Listed Firms? New Evidence from
Propensity Score Matching (PSM) (November 2010) With Yu-Jun Lian and
Maggie Foley. International Journal of Business Strategy, 10 (3).
“Guidance on Audit High Risk Clients” (October, 2010) with D’Aquila, J.M., K.
Capriotti, and R. O’Keefe. CPA Journal.
“The Valuation Effect of Accounting Standard 158 on Firms with High and Low
Financial Risk”, (March 2011), with Robert Houmes and Inga Chira. Atlantic
Economic Journal, 39 (1).
“Tax Policy Defects and Uncertainty Taint American Jobs Act”, (December
2011), with Richard Cebula and Christopher Coombs. Tax Notes, v133, #12.
“On the Value Relevance of SFAS 158”, (2012), with Robert Houmes and Wm.
Crosby, Research in Accounting Regulation, 24 (2012) pp.112-115.
“Contesting Corporate Control: Shareholder Voting”, with Maggie Foley,
Chengru Hu, and Biqing Huang, International Journal of Corporate Governance,
Winter 2013.
“The Value of Education: Evidence from Canada”, with Xiaojing Si, Maggie
Foley and Richard Cebula, Journal of Economics and Finance Education, Winter
of 2013, volume 12.
“Using Sports as a Teaching Tool in Economics and Marketing: The Revenue
Maximization Scenario”, with Maggie Foley and Richard Cebula, Journal of
Economics and Finance Education, Summer of 2014, forthcoming.
“Systems Equipment Division and Ferrofluidics”, with Steven T Walsh, PhD;
Technological Forecasting & Social Change, forthcoming.
“An Analysis of Shareholder Proposals”, with Maggie Foley, Rich Cebula and
Xiaowei Liu, Journal of Finance and Accountancy, forthcoming.
"Implications of Recent Federal Personal Income Tax Increases for Income Tax
Evasion, Tax Revenues, and Budget Deficits", with Rich Cebula, Maggie Foley,
and Douglas Izard, William & Mary Policy Review, Fall 2014.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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“Core Capabilities and Strategy: Empirical Evidence for the Semiconductor
Silicon Industry”. With S. Walsh, A. Paulson and J. Morone, (1993), Proceedings
of the Strategic Management Journal International Conference.
“The Systems Equipment Division at Ferrofluidics - Case A” with S. Walsh,
(1994), a case study on the development of core capabilities. Proceedings, 1994
NACRA Conference Held in New Orleans, LA.
“The Systems Equipment Division at Ferrofluidics - Case B” with S. Walsh,
(1994), a case study on the development of core capabilities. Proceedings, 1994
NACRA Conference Held in New Orleans, LA.
“The Implementation of Competency Based Strategy: The Success of the Systems
Equipment Division at Ferrofluidics”, with S. Walsh, A. Paulson and J. Morone,
(1995) Strategic Management Journal’s Third Annual Workshop on Competency
Based Competition, Proceedings.
“Identification Schemes for Core Technical Capabilities: Evidence from the
Semiconductor Industry”, with Walsh, S., Paulson, A., Berg, D. in the
International Association of the Management of Technology, Proceedings, Vol 5,
12/95.
“Core Competency Strategies for Growth in Small Firms: Evidence from the
Crystal Pulling Industry”, with Walsh and Kirchhoff. Proceedings, ICSB World
Conference, Fall 1996.
“Identification Schemes for Core Capabilities: Evidence from the Semiconductor
Industry”, with Walsh, et al. al. Proceedings, IAMOT Conference, Fall 1996.
“Linking Manufacturing Innovation to Competitive Advantage”, with Walsh and
McDermott. Proceedings, IEEE Management Transactions, 1996.
“Strategic Balance: the Link between Core Products and Core Capabilities”, with
S. Walsh and C. McDermott. Proceedings, IEEE Management Transactions,
1996.
"Emerging Economies and Emerging Technologies: Entrepreneurial Partnering
Success in Northern China” Boylan R., Walsh S., & Kirchhoff B., Babson 1998
Proceedings.
BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
"Tax Aspects of the Endogenous Deterioration of Capital.” Ph.D. Thesis, Duke
University, Durham NC, 1990.
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"Some Caveats for the use of Forecasting Models for Assessing Rates of Return
in Workers' Compensation" (1993) with Albert S. Paulson and Loo Thou Lim,
Workers' Compensation Insurance: Claim Costs, Prices, and Regulation, edited
by D. Durbin and P. Borba, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
"Identification Schemes for Core Technical Capabilities: Evidence from the
Semiconductor Industry", with Walsh, S., Berg, D., Paulson, A., Morone, J.
(1996), Technology in a Changing World, International Association of
Management of Technology, Miami, Florida, pp. 230-241.
“Core Capabilities and Strategy: Empirical Evidence for the Semiconductor
Silicon Industry”, with S. Walsh, A. Paulson and J. Morone, (1996). In H.
Thomas and D O’Neal (eds.) Strategic Integration, New York: Wiley, 149-165.
UNREFEREED PAPERS / PRESENTATIONS
“The Alternative Minimum Tax and the New Tax Law”, Hudson Valley
Magazine, (Spring, 1994).
“The Commercialization of Microsystems”, with Walsh, S., and Warrington, R.,
Engineering Foundation White Paper Series, 12/95.
"The Link between Core Products and Core Capabilities over time: Evidence
from the Semiconductor Silicon Industry," Walsh S., Kirchhoff B., and Boylan
R., Berg D. and Paulson, A., Informs, 1996 Atlanta, Nov. 3-6, pp 58.
"Factors Determining Successful Marketing Strategies Among Entrepreneurial
Manufacturing Firms in the Semiconductor Silicon Industry", Walsh S., Kirchhoff
B., O'Connor G., and Boylan R. (1996), UIC/AMA Research Symposia on
Marketing and Entrepreneurship Research, Stockholm, Sweden.
“Linking Manufacturing Acquisition Strategies with Firm Success, Evidence from
the Semiconductor Silicon Industry", with Walsh S., McDermott, C. (1996)
IMEC' 96 IEEE Engineering Management Society, International Conference on
Engineering and Technology Management.
"The Commercialization of Microsystems a Disruptive Technology" with Walsh,
S., and Warrington, R., MST News: Special Issue USA & Canada
pp 148- 151, September, 1996.
“Specialization and Knowledge Fragmentation: Cure or Malady?” with James
Mote. Proceedings of American Association of Accounting and Finance Annual
Meeting, December 1997, Abstract p 278.
"Key Factors Affecting Choice in an Emergent Technology Base", with Walsh S,
Burke, R. & Dowd M., (1997), PICMET 97.
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“Strategic Investment in Northern China: a Real Options Approach” Presented at
IEEE Annual Meeting, August 2000.
“Get ‘Real’ and Gain; How to Boost Real-estate Profits through Tax Planning”,
with Kim Capriotti, Chiropractic Economics, V 50, No.16, December 2004.
“A Preliminary Study of
the Financial Reporting Effects of SFAS 158: Do Highly
Levered Firms Use Higher Discount Rates to Reduce Reported Pension
Liability?”, with Dr. Robert Houmes. Delivered at the JU Faculty-Student
Symposium, 4-1-2009.
“Insider Ownership and Stock Price Performance: How Greater Concentrations of
Insider Ownership Affects Returns of Firms with Various Price-to-Earnings
Ratios”, with Robert Houmes and Denise Dickens, 2009. Presented at AAA South
Meeting, April 2009.
U.S. Government Sponsored Industry Reports
Boylan, R., Walsh, S., and Walsh, W., (1995), "SOI Industry Review" an Industry
study commissioned by Battle for the US government pp 1 – 326.
Boylan, R., and Walsh, S. (1994) "Silicon Industry a longitudinal Review" an
industry study commissioned by Battelle for the USAF pp 1 – 284.
Awards:
Lilly Teaching Fellowship. July 1990 - June 1991
Awarded Fellowship from Lilly Foundation to help in the design of an
interactive approach to Advanced Financial Accounting. Competitive award is
based on excellence of teaching and creativity of proposed project.
RPI - EMBA Teacher of the Year 1995-1998, 1997-2001.
RPI - Teacher of the Year – Undergraduate – 1992/1993.
RPI - Teacher of the Year – MBA – 2000/2001.
Nominated for the award “Teacher of the Year” at JU for 2005/6
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