AAA-George Krull EDGE in Teaching Award
Previous AAA-George Krull EDGE in Teaching Award Recipients and Honorable Mentions
2025 Award
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Recipient:
"DataSnipper and Revenue Existence Testing: Improving Audit Efficiency Without Cutting Corners"
Lorraine Lee and Jennifer Parlier
Honorable Mention:
"AI in Accounting Education: A Practical Guide for Educators and Students"
Wendy M. Tietz
Previous George Krull/Grant Thornton EDGE in Teaching Award Recipients and Honorable Mentions
2024 Award
Recipient:
"Purchase Order ‘Analytic Audit”
Daniel O’Leary, University of Southern California
Honorable Mention:
“Costing Breakage: A Case Study on Implementing Waste Reduction to Foster Sustainability”
Lucy Diala, California State University, Fresno
2023 Award
Recipient:
“Building Higher Order Thinking Skills through Assessment of User Account Access Management”
Holly Hawk, Clemson University
2022 Award
Recipient:
“Escape the Mundane Review”
Kimberly Young, Greenville Technical College, South Carolina
Honorable Mention:
“Randomized Data Analytics Case Studies”
Hagit Levy-Shalev, Baruch College, New York
2021 Award
Recipient:
“Divvying Up Data: A Data Visualization Case”
Michael Ozlanski, Susquehanna University; Suzanne Seymour, North Central College
Honorable Mention:
“How much money am I making? BeYoutiful Bath Bombs Inventory Costing Project”
Tara Lambert, Whitworth University
2020 Award
Recipient:
“Cybersecurity isn’t just for Techies: Incorporating Cybersecurity into the Accounting Curriculum”
Scott Boss, Bentley University; Joy Gray, Bentley University; Diane Janvrin, Iowa State University
Honorable Mention:
“Finding the Fraudster: A Problem-Based Learning Activity for the Auditing Classroom”
Christie Novak, Le Moyne College
2019 Award
Recipient:
“Blockchain: Bridging the Profession-Education Gap with Instructional Scaffolding”
Ethan Kinory, Rutgers Camden, State University of NJ and Kimberly Church, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Sean Stein Smith, Lehman College (CUNY)
2018 Award
Recipient:
“Show & Tell: Infographics to Keep and Sustain Engagement”
Lynnan Mocek and Veronica Paz, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
2017 Award
Recipient:
“Student Distinctive Consolidated Financial Statement Assignment”
Jeff Miller, Sam Houston State University and Lixuan Grace Zhang, Kennesaw State University
2016 Award
Recipient:
“Reflective Ethical Decision: A model for ethics in accounting education”
Sandria Stephenson, Kennesaw State University
Honorable Mention:
“Utilizing Concept Mapping in Individual Income Tax”
Tracie Miller-Nobles, Austin Community College
2015 Award
Recipient:
“Diamond Foods Inc.: One Company, Two Cases, Four Courses. The Recipe for a Rich, Relevant and Exciting Learning Experience”
Mahendra Gujarathi, Bentley University
Honorable Mention:
“Adding a Real-World Fraud Risk Assessment to your Fraud or Auditing Class”
Mary Jepperson, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
2014 Award
Recipient:
“The College to Professional Experience”
Ashley Stark and Scott Hanson, Dickinson State University
Honorable Mention:
“Regression Analysis—Instructional Resource for Cost/Managerial Accounting”
David Stout, Youngstown State University
2013 Award
Recipient:
“Bellweather Garden Supply: Revising Purchase and Disbursement Processes and Controls in the Implementation of a New Accounting Application”
Marion E. McHugh — Furman University; Paul Polinski — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Honorable Mentions:
“A "Sweet Way" to Teach Managerial Accounting: The Cookie Project”
Kelly Richmond Pope — DePaul University
"Understand FX Risk by Playing Monopoly"
Rita Grant — Grand Valley State University
“Engaging Students in Accounting and Auditing Aspects Related to the Dixon Illinois 53 Million Dollar Fraud”
Carol M. Jessup — University of Illinois-Springfield
2012 Award
Recipient:
“Out of the Box Learning for Tax Class: Students Create Models, Pamphlets, and a Shoebox Case”
Marsha Huber — Youngtown State University
Honorable Mentions:
“Audit Service Proposal: Jurassic Accounting and Stellar Steel”
Meghann Cefarattil and Tim West — Northern Illinois University; David Heinke — Grant Thornton, LLP
“Using SEC Resources to incorporate IFRS content in Intermediate Accounting”
Linda Matuszewski — Northern Illinois University
2011 Award
Recipient:
“From Pacioli to Picasso: Using Art to Enhance Critical Thinking in Accounting Capstone Course”
Karen Tabak — Maryville University
Honorable Mentions:
“IFRS Projects Using Dual Reporting of IFRS and U. S. GAAP””
Angela L. J. Hwang — Eastern Michigan University
“Student Engagement in Auditing Class – Audit Skits and Humor”
Gail Kaciuba — St. Mary’s University
2010 Award
Recipient:
"Use Technology to Enhance Auditing Classes”
Mary Jepperson — College of St. Benedict
Honorable Mentions:
"Detecting Fraud in Financial Statements”
Avinash Arya — William Paterson University
"Northwind Project—Query and Manipulate Data for Financial”
R.K. Hurtt — Baylor University; Ann O’Brien — University of Wisconsin-Madison
Previous Winners
2021 Winners
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Ken Bouyer, EY, LLP
2020 Winners
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William F. Ezzell, Jr., Deloitte LLP Retired (1949-2018)
George W. Krull Jr., Grant Thornton LLP, Retired
Beatrice Sanders, KPMG LLP
2019 Winners
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Mary E. Barth, Stanford University
Ellen Glazerman, EY Foundation
2018 Winners
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Gary J. Previts, Case Western Reserve University
G. Peter Wilson, Boston College
2017 Winner
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Stephen A. Zeff, Rice University
2016 Winner
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Theodore J. Mock, University of California-Riverside
David E. Stout, Youngstown State University
2015 Winner
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Bernard J. Milano, KPMG Foundation and The PhD Project
W. Steve Albrecht, BYU
2013 Winner
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Dennis R. Reigle, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Doyle Z. Williams, University of Arkansas (Dean Emeritus)