Joel S. Demski
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Joel Demski is an American accounting researcher and educator.
Currently 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 the American Accounting Association
.
He is author of numerous articles and of books including:
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.http://aaahq.org/awards/awrd2win.htm
He received the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award of the American Accounting Association in 1986.http://aaahq.org/awards/awrd4win.htm
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:
Currently the Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar at University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
, he
has also been a professor at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
and Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
as well as at University of Florida. He is a past president of the American Accounting Association
American Accounting Association
The American Accounting Association is an "organization of persons interested in accounting education and research". It was formed in 1916. Its main publication, The Accounting Review, was first published in 1926. It is the principal professional association of accounting academics in the United...
.
He is 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. FelthamGerald A. FelthamGerald A. Feltham is a Canadian accounting researcher and educator.He is Professor Emeritus at the Sauder School of Business at University of British Columbia.He also served on the faculty of Stanford University...
, 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.http://aaahq.org/awards/awrd2win.htm
He received the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award of the American Accounting Association in 1986.http://aaahq.org/awards/awrd4win.htm
In 2000, Demski was one of three inductees to the Accounting Hall of Fame
Accounting Hall of Fame
The Accounting Hall of Fame is an award "recognizing accountants who are making or have made a significant contribution to the advancement of accounting" since the beginning of the 20th century. Inductees are from both accounting academia and practice...
, 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 pathbreaking work on applications of information economicsInformation economicsInformation economics or the economics of informationis a branch of microeconomic theory that studies how information affects an economy and economic decisions. Information has special characteristics. It is easy to create but hard to trust. It is easy to spread but hard to control. It...
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.