Jeffrey W. Schatzberg
Adjunct Faculty
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eff Schatzberg is the Humberto Lopez Professor of Accounting in the Eller
College of Management at the University of Arizona. He has been a faculty member at the University of Arizona for the past nineteen years, and also currently
holds a Visiting Professor of Accounting appointment at Thunderbird School of Global
Management. In addition, he has been on the faculties of the College of William and
Mary, and Middlesex University (in London, England). Professor Schatzberg received
his BA (in Philosophy), MA (in accounting) and Ph.D. (in business administration),
all at the University of Iowa. Professor Schatzberg has more than twenty publications
in the most prestigious accounting and business journals, including the Journal of
Accounting Research, the Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research,
and Public Choice. His research and teaching interests are in managerial accounting
and auditing, and some of his current research is examining the impact of the Sarbanes
Oxley Act (SOX) on market behavior. He has given numerous seminars at several U.S.
universities, including the University of Chicago, Washington University, University
of Washington, and USC, as well as international schools in Canada, England, Wales,
Norway, France, Germany and Switzerland. Jeff has also served on the editorial board
of several scholarly accounting journals.
Professor Schatzberg has been teaching MBA managerial accounting courses in the
Eller Graduate School of Business MBA program (full-time, evening, and executive) for twelve years, and has been teaching MBA managerial accounting courses
at Thunderbird for seven years. He has extensive experience in executive education
worldwide (e.g., Taiwan, Mexico, Korea, Czechoslovakia), has developed customized
managerial accounting programs and performed consulting for numerous companies
(e.g., Raytheon, Honeywell, Intel, LG, Walbro), and has taught executives in many
multi-national firms (e.g., IBM, Motorola, LG, BenQ, Acer, Mattel, Kimberly-Clark).
In 1998, 2002, and 2005 Jeff received the “MBA Faculty of the Year Award” from
the Eller Graduate School of Business at the University of Arizona, and in 1997 the
Arizona Society of CPA’s “Excellence in Teaching Award”. Jeff is a C.P.A. (licensed
in the states of Arizona and Iowa), and worked for several years as an auditor and
tax accountant in the Phoenix office of KPMG Peat Marwick. Jeff’s work experience
includes both manufacturing and service industry firms, as well as not-for-profit institutions.
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