2008 Distinguished Service in Auditing AwardPresented by Trevor Stewart
The 2008 Distinguished Service in Auditing Award was presented to William F. Messier, Jr., the Kenneth and Tracey Knauss Endowed Chair in Accounting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This award recognizes individuals who over a period of at least twenty years have made significant contributions to the profession, to the Auditing Section and to scholarship. It was first presented in 1981 to Ken Stringer and has continued ever since with an illustrious list of recipients. Bill Messier received his doctorate from Indiana University in 1979 and has served our profession for nearly three decades, making significant contributions in the areas of research, teaching, and both academic and professional service. For ten years before joining the faculty at the University of Nevada in 2008, Bill was the Deloitte & Touche LLP Professor at Georgia State University. He also holds a professorship at the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration; and is a visiting professor at SDA Bocconi in Milan. Bill served as the Academic Member of the AICPA's Auditing Standards Board and as Chair of the AICPA's International Auditing Standards Subcommittee. He is a Past-Editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and formerly President of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association. He was an author of "A Framework for Evaluating Control Exceptions and Deficiencies" – the framework used by registered companies to evaluate control deficiencies under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Bill is the lead author on Auditing and Assurance Services: An Integrated Approach (6th edition) and he has authored or coauthored over 50 articles in accounting, decision science, and computer science journals. Bill has also served our profession as an award winning teacher and dissertation advisor, helping to train a generation and a half of auditing practitioners and auditing faculty. Since 1988, he has earned "Outstanding Teacher" or "Teacher of the Year" awards on six separate occasions. He has also been the chair of 15 doctoral dissertation committees, and has served as a member of 12 other dissertation committees. Twice in the last six years he has chaired or co-chaired the dissertation that won the Auditing Section's Outstanding Dissertation Award. The members of this year's selection committee were Urton Anderson, Bill Felix, Zoe-Vonna Palmrose, Bob Roussey, Ira Solomon and Trevor Stewart. |
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