Retired Faculty & Staff

Barbara Reider

Professor Emerita / Adjunct

Contact

Office
GBB 390
Phone
243-5145
Email
barbara.reider@business.umt.edu

Personal Summary

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 Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting, Managerial Accounting, and Cost Management. Barbara traveled with several UM accounting students to the Alaskan North Slope where they participated in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program. Fortunately, they survived the cold weather.

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, 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, Journal of Business Case Studies, and Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement.

She was a recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award in the Department of Accounting and Finance. She was also the recipient of the Most Inspirational Teacher award and the Outstanding Volunteer award from the university. In 2009, she was the recipient of the Outstanding Educator award from the Montana Society of CPAs. She participated as a Professor in Residence at KPMG in Anchorage.

In her spare time Barbara enjoys spending time with her family and friends, reading, lifting weights, yoga, traveling, anything chocolate, playing with her cat, kayaking, walking up the M, and watching "The Office." To learn more about the Missoula community, she and Bob completed the Civilian Law Enforcement Academy in 2010.