PROFILE:
Barbara Reider is a professor of accounting.  She holds one of the two John and Kathy Connors faculty fellowships in the business school.  Her areas of teaching this year include Intermediate Accounting I, Managerial Accounting, and Advanced Auditing.  Barbara traveled with five UM accounting students in 2007 and 2008 to the Alaskan North Slope where they participated in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program.  Fortunately, they survived the cold weather.  She is the advisor for Beta Alpha Psi.

Barbara completed her undergraduate degree in accounting at Kent State University, received her master's degree in accounting and information systems at Ohio State University, and earned her PhD in accounting at Kent State University.  While she is a proud fan of the KSU Golden Flashes and the OSU Buckeyes, you will find Barbara and her husband Bob in the North end zone of every Griz football game.  Go Griz!

Her professional credentials include Certified Public Accountant (inactive), Certified Management Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified in Financial Management, and Certified Government Financial Manager.

Barbara's publications have appeared in Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting Education, Advances in Accounting Education, Journal of Forensic Accounting:  Auditing, Fraud, & Taxation, and Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement.

She was the 2006-2007 recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award in the Department of Accounting and Finance.  She was also the recipient of the Most Inspirational Teacher award from the university in 2005-2006 and the outstanding Volunteer Award from the university in 2007-2008.

In her spare time Barbara enjoys reading, lifting weights, traveling, anything chocolate, playing with her cat, kayaking, cross-country skiing, and watching "Napoleon Dynamite."