Council Member-at-Large Nominee

Kate Mooney
Kate Mooney is a Professor of Accounting at St. Cloud State University (SCSU) in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She began teaching there in 1986 after receiving her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and has been the Department Chair for six years. She is a CPA and a member of the AICPA and the Minnesota Society of CPAs where she was elected to the Board of Directors. She is a Minnesota Master Gardener.

Professor Mooney teaches financial accounting and was named a 2002 G. R. Herberger Distinguished Professor of Business, in addition to winning the SCSU Excellence in Teaching Award (1990), the SCSU Outstanding Faculty Award (1991), and the Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Instructor Award (1996). Her scholarship focuses on the effect of financial accounting standards on small practitioners. Her work has been published in the Journal of Accountancy, The CPA Journal, and the National Public Accountant. She has supervised nine starred papers for the Master's program.

At SCSU, Professor Mooney has served on the College of Business Dean Search Committee, the University Strategic Planning Committee, the Honorary Doctorate Committee, and as treasurer for the Faculty Senate.

Professor Mooney's prior service to the AAA includes the Finance Committee since 2001, the Outreach and Articulation Committee (2002-2003), and the Two-Year College Faculty Relations Committee (1999-2002). She was treasurer of the APLG and served as New Chairpersons' Seminar Committee Chair in 2001. She has been a member of the Steering Committee of the MWAAA since 1997 and was program chair in 2002 and president in 2003. She has assisted in the review process on an ad hoc basis for Issues in Accounting Education and national and regional AAA meetings.

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