SHERRY K. MILLS, Ph.D., CPA
Associate Professor of Accounting
New Mexico State University
Box 30001, MSC 3DH
Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001
(505) 646-5681, smills@nmsu.edu
EDUCATION
Texas Tech University, Ph.D., 1988; M.S., Accounting; B.B.A., Accounting
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, College of Business Administration and Economics
New Mexico State University, 3/95 - present
Assistant Professor, College of Business Administration and Economics
New Mexico State University, 8/88 - 3/95
Graduate Teaching Assistant, College of Business Administration
Texas Tech University, 1/85 - 5/88
College Instructor, College of Business Administration
University of Texas at San Antonio, 8/79 - 12/84
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate
Design and Delivery of Goods and Services
Forensic Accounting (Fraud Examination)
Accountability for Quality (a Viewing the Wider World course for non-business
majors)
Principles of Accounting
Managerial Accounting (traditional classroom and interactive video)
Cost Accounting
Advanced Cost Accounting
Auditing
Graduate
Managerial Accounting (for MBAs)
Advanced Cost Accounting (for MPAs)
Integrated Business Concepts (crossdisciplinary, team taught course for
Master's of Engineering Students including two semesters of distance
education)
HONORS and AWARDS
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Recipient, NMSU’s Westhafer Award for Teaching Excellence, 2003.
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Recipient, Carnegie Foundation, New Mexico Professor of the Year award, 2002.
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Recipient, New Mexico Society of CPAs Accounting Educator of the Year award, 1999.
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Recipient, Award for Innovation in Accounting Education by the American Accounting
Association, 1996.
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Recipient, Award for Instructional Innovation by the Southwest Business Deans
Association, 1996.
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Runner-up, Award for 1995 Innovation in Accounting Education by the American
Accounting Association.
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Recipient, Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Business Administration and
Economics, New Mexico State University, 1993.
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Finalist, Boeing Innovation in Teaching Award, American Accounting Association, 1993.
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Finalist (1992) and Recipient (1993) of the Burlington Resources Faculty Achievement
Award, New Mexico State University.
SPECIAL TEACHING ACTIVITIES AND INNOVATIONS
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Designed and implemented a course on forensic accounting (ACCT 490—Fraud
Examination). Assignments include short cases and internet-based research. Graduate
students complete a research paper (2003).
Designed and implemented a cohesion case, Build Your Own Business (BYOB) with
LEGO interactive learning experiences and EXCEL-based assignments for ACCT 251
Managerial Accounting, currently being used in course (2000).
Developed and implemented ACCT 503, Management Accounting, a distance education
course for Boeing engineers. Students completed 15 case analyses and made a case
presentation using PowerPoint slides. All classes were video streamed in Internet for
Boeing students to easily access. The course was maintained on the Web using WebCT
(Fall, 2000)
Co-developed BUSA 361/362 (now BUSA 365) Design and Delivery of Goods and
Services as an integrated supply chain management course including Marketing,
Operations Management, and Management Accounting. Working in cross disciplinary
teams, students complete a three-stage business plan project applying tools of course.
Lab activities include a number of interactive learning experiences including more
extensive development of LEGO activities to teach production and accounting processes.
More than 1,500 students have completed this course(1999)
Developed WebQuest assignments, where students learn about management accounting
topic as they design a web-based learning assignment (1998)
Team teaching activities with professors in marketing and logistics and production
operations management (1995-1998); included distance education offering to managers
at three Boeing plant facilities (1997)
Taught first College of Business Administration and Economics distance education
course in management accounting using interactive technologies (1997)
Developed and taught a course entitled “Integrated Business Concepts” with a team of
three business faculty; joint student teams of Engineering students and MBA students
located at NMSU and Boeing Corporation distance site facilities; course made extensive
use of online learning and satellite learning technologies to deliver course material and
facilitate cross-site, cross-functional team projects (1996, 1997)
Developed and implemented a Viewing the Wider World Course, ACCT 305G,
Accountability for Quality, including a paper based on interviewing an expert in their
desired career area (1995)
Co-developed and implemented an award-winning, innovative cohesion case and four
interactive, hands-on activities using LEGOs construction materials, currently being used
in ACCT 251, Managerial Accounting (1991)
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
Ammons, Janice and Sherry Mills. "Learners as Designers of Educational
Hypermedia in Accounting" Advances in Accounting Education Journal, Volume 5,
2003. pp. 1-26.
E.T. Sautter, A. Popp, E. Pratt, and S. Mills, “A ‘New and Improved’ Curriculum;
Process and Outcomes,” Marketing Education Review, Volume 10, Number 3, Fall,
2000.
C. S. Burns and S. K. Mills, “Bringing the Factory to the Classroom," Journal of
Accountancy, January, 1997, pp. 56-60.
S. K. Mills and C. S. Burns, “Extraterrestrial Transport Inc.: An Out-of-this-World
Instructional Innovation for Teaching Management Accounting,” in J. O. Burns and B.
E. Needles, Jr., (Eds.) Accounting Education for the 21st Century: The Global
Challenges. International Association for Accounting Education and Research, 1994,
pp. 217-223.
S. K. Mills and P. J. Robertson, “Using Microthemes in Principles of Accounting
Courses," Accounting Instructors’ Report, Fall, 1993.
S. K. Mills and M. Bettner, “Rituals and Conflict in the Audit Profession,” Critical
Perspectives in Accounting, Vol. 3, No. 2, June 1992, pp. 185-200.
P. J. Robertson and S. K. Mills, “Integrating Writing Assignments into the Accounting
Curriculum Via Microthemes,” The Accounting Educator’s Journal, Vol. IV, No. 2,
1992.
S. K. Mills and C. S. Burns, “Restructuring the Management Accounting Course,”
Accounting Education News, American Accounting Association, June, 1992, pp. 6-7.
C. S. Burns and S. K. Mills, “Using a Lunar Base Scenario as a Context for Improving
Business Education,” in W.Z.Sadeh, S. P. Sture, R. J. Miller, (Eds.) Engineering
Construction and Operations in Space, III, Vol.. 2, pp. 2172-2185. New York:
American Society of Civil Engineers.
S. Mills and J. Robertson, “CPA Firm Retention: Is It Time for a Change?” Business
and Tax Planning Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1990, pp. 29-31.
A. Chan and S. K. Mills, “Solid Waste Management in New Mexico Counties: What
Information is Needed and What is Available,” The Municipal Engineers Journal, Vol.
78, Issue III, 1990, pp. 6-19.
S. K. Mills and P. J. Robertson, “Teaching Writing Skills in the Accounting
Curriculum,” Writing Across the Curriculum Newsletter, November 1990, Vol. 6.
Book Publications
B. E. Needles, Jr., M. Powers, S. K. Mills, and H. R. Anderson, Principles of
Accounting, Seventh Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Publishing, 1999.
B. E. Needles, Jr., M. Powers, S. K. Mills, and H. R. Anderson, Financial and
Managerial Accounting: A Sole Proprietorship Approach, Fifth Edition. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Publishing, 1999.
B. E. Needles, Jr., M. Powers, S. K. Mills, and H. R. Anderson, Financial and
Managerial Accounting: A Corporate Approach, Fifth Edition. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Publishing, 1999.
B. E. Needles, Jr., M. Powers, S. K. Mills, and H. R. Anderson, Managerial
Accounting, Seventh Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Publishing, 1999.
B. E. Needles, Jr., H. R. Anderson, and J. C. Caldwell, and S. K. Mills, Principles of
Accounting, Sixth Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Publishing, 1995.
B. E. Needles, Jr., H. R. Anderson, and J. C. Caldwell, and S. K. Mills, Financial and
Managerial Accounting: A Sole Proprietorship Approach, Fourth Edition. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Publishing, 1995.
B. E. Needles, Jr., H. R. Anderson, and J. C. Caldwell, and S. K. Mills, Financial and
Managerial Accounting: A Corporate Approach, Fourth Edition. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Publishing, 1995.
H. R. Anderson, B. E. Needles, Jr., and J. C. Caldwell, and S. K. Mills, Managerial
Accounting, Sixth Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Publishing, 1995.
S. K. Mills, C. S. Burns, and J. L. Ammons, Using Product Prototypes to Teach Cost
Management Concepts. Self-published, 1996.
M. Bettner and S. Mills, Weston Manufacturing: An Activity-Based Costing Case,
West Publishing, 1994.
Papers in Progress
Mills, Sherry, R. Calk. “Belief Revisions in Sequential Performance Evaluations,” working
paper.
Papers and Presentations at Scholarly Meetings or Accounting Educator
Conferences
Mills, Sherry, D. Wieters, and E. Pratt. “Improving Awareness of Business Integration:
Combining the Web with a Business Plan Project,” presented at the Irish Academy of
Management Conference, in Waterford, Ireland, September 5-6, 2002.
“Teaching Strategies and Classroom Techniques: Dramas and Simulations”, preconference CPE session at the national American Accounting Association meeting,
Atlanta Ga, August, 2001 and San Antonio, Tx, August 2002.
“Building Your Own Business as a Student Project”, interactive presentation to Florida
Accounting Educators Society, October, 2001.
“Award-Winning Best Practices: Sharing What Works, member of a panel discussion
at the National AAA meeting, Atlanta, August, 2001
“Developing Team Skills in the Accounting Curriculum”, member of a panel
discussion at SWAFAD, Decision Sciences, regional meeting, New Orleans, March,
2001.
“Learners as Designers of Web-based Instructional Materials: The WebQuest
Experience,” with Janice Ammons, Southwest Regional meeting of the American
Accounting Association, San Antonio, March, 2000.
"Designing WebQuest Projects," co-presented to ISETA conference, Mesa Arizona,
October 1999.
"Cost Management Issues," co-presented a 12-hour workshop in conjunction with the
Diplomado, or certification program, for Mexican accountors, October 1999.
"Bringing the Factory to the Classroom," Accounting Educator's Forum, Texas Society
of Certified Public Accountants, October 1998.
"WebQuests: Getting Students to Prepare Instructional Materials," at the Web98
conference, Northern Arizona University, May 1998.
"Teaching across Disciplines in a Technology Environment," co-presented at the
Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, University of LaVerne, California,
June 1998.
“Using Demonstrations to teach Cost Management Topics” to accounting educators
at state accounting educator conferences in Florida (October, 1995 and 1996), Illinois
(September 1996), Georgia (February 1997), California (March 1997), Washington
State (September 1998).
"Unique Challenges Facing Cross-organizational Programs," by C. D. Wieters, J.
Ammons, C. Burns, S. Mills, E. Sautter, K. Boberg, A Maltz, O Burchette, and T.
Powers, APICS Educational & Research Foundation's 1997 Summer
Academic/Practitioner Workshop, NMSU, Las Cruces, NM.
"Supply Chain in the Classroom: Business Faculty Teaching Future Manufacturing
Engineers," by C. Burns, S. Mills, J. Ammons, A. Maltz, D. Wieters, APICS
Educational & Research Foundation's 1997 Summer Academic/Practitioner
Workshop, NMSU, Las Cruces, NM.
“Using Product Prototypes,” at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting,
August, 1996. Received the Award for Innovation in Accounting Education.
“Using Product Prototypes to teach Management Accounting Concepts”, copresented 4-hour continuing education session, American Accounting Association
Western Regional Meeting, May 1996, Jackson, Wyoming and University of North
Carolina, Charlotte, March 1998.
“Using Product Prototypes to teach Production Concepts”, co-presented at the
Production and Operations Management Society Annual Meeting, March 1996,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
“Innovations in Teaching Management Accounting,” co-presented at the Federation
Schools of Accountancy Annual Meeting, December 1995, Las Vegas, Nevada.
“Innovations in Teaching Management Accounting,” co-presented at the Institute of
Management Accountants Annual Meeting, June 1994, New York City.
“Extraterrestrial Transport Inc.: An Innovative Cohesion Case,” co-presented at the
American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, August 1993, San Francisco,
California. Received award for runner-up for Boeing Award for Accounting Education
Innovation.
“The Expectation Gap: Student Expectations vs. Actual Experience," presented at the
New Mexico Society of CPA’s/Educator’s Conference, April 1993, Albuquerque.
“Changes in Introductory Managerial Accounting--the New Mexico State Experience,"
presented at the Maryland Association of CPAs and Educator’s Conference, cosponsored with the Accounting Education Change Commission, January, 1993,
Baltimore, Maryland.
“Learning Innovations in Managerial Accounting at NMSU," presented to the
Manufacturing Advisory Committee of the College of Engineering, New Mexico State
University, November 1992 with C. S. Burns.
“Developing Writing Skills in Audit Education: The Current Status and Alternatives for
the Future," presented at the Conference on Audit Education, February 1992, San
Diego.
“Innovations in Teaching Managerial Accounting," presented at the CPA/Educator
Conference: Educating the Professional Accountant for the 1990’s, November 1991,
Albuquerque.
“The Role of Ritual in Masking Conflict in the Auditing Profession,” presented at the
Second Critical Perspectives in Accounting Symposium, 1991, New York.
“The Construction of Audit Reality: Projecting Image through Ritual,” presented at the
Critical Perspectives on Auditing Symposium, April 1990, New York.
Grant Activities
"A Proposal for Manufacturing Engineering Education: Engineering Education in
Manufacturing Across the Curriculum," submitted as part of a team from the College
of Engineering and the College of Business Administration and Economics.
Approximately two million dollars funded by ARPA, 1993.
SERVICE
National
Chairman of Innovation in Accounting Education committee of the American
Accounting Association, 1999-2000.
Member of Innovation in Accounting Education committee of the American
Accounting Association, 1998-99.
University
Faculty Senator (1999-2002)
Faculty Affairs Committee, member (2000-2002)
Graduate Faculty (1989-present)
College
College Mission and Goals Committee (1989-94)
College Quality Committee (1995)
College Faculty Council (1988-1992)
College MBA Curriculum Committee (1997)
College MBA Policies Committee (1998-2000)
College Distance Education Committee (1997)
Administrator of TRP Grant monies for College of Business Administration
and Economics (1996-97)
College Assessment Committee (1998-present)
Department
Department Mission and Goals Committee (1989 to present)
Department Faculty Development Committee (1998)
Department Assessment Committee (1998 to present)
Faculty Co-Advisor, Beta Alpha Psi (2002)
Advise approximately 15 undergraduate students per semester
Professional Organizations
Member of American Accounting Association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants,
New Mexico Society of Certified Public Accountants, Institute of Management Accountants, Beta
Alpha Psi, and Beta Gamma Sigma
Certified Public Accountant -- Texas