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Joel Demski
Receives 2011 Lifetime Contribution to Management Accounting Award

Joel Demski is the Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar at University of Florida. He has also been a professor at Stanford University and Yale University as well as at University of Florida. He is a past president of American Accounting Association. He is the author of numerous articles and of books including:

  • Information Analysis, 1980.
  • Managerial Uses of Accounting Information, 1994.
  • Managerial Uses of Accounting Information: Second Edition, 2008.
  • Cost Determination: A Conceptual Approach, with Gerald A. Feltham, 1976.

In 1994, along with co-author Gerald A. Feltham, he was awarded the Seminal Contributions in Accounting Literature Award for their article "Economic Incentives in Budgetary Control Systems" published in The Accounting Review in April, 1978.

He received the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award of the American Accounting Association in 1986.

In 2000, Demski was one of three inductees to the Accounting Hall of Fame, a program hosted by Ohio State University which honors top academics and practitioners nation- and world-wide.

An excerpt from the Hall of Fame biography comments on his research contributions:

His path-breaking work on applications of information economics and agency theory to accounting is presented in 60 published journal articles, 5 books, and over 25 other published papers. His work and that of the countless students he inspired has created a new domain for accounting theory. He is one of the most widely cited authors in the accounting literature and many of his papers have been awarded national prizes for their importance and influence. One of his first papers, "An Accounting System Structured on a Linear Programming Model," won the 1967 AICPA Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Accounting Literature and 3 years later, another paper, "The Use of Models in Information Evaluation" (written with his former colleague Gerald Feltham), captured the same award.

Currently, Joel is the featured business school faculty at University of Florida website (http://warrington.ufl.edu/faculty/ )