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Rodger Brannan, Ph.D., M.I.M., M.B.A.
Associate Professor of Accounting and International Business
Dr. Brannan holds a Ph.D. from
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, as well as a Masters of
International Management from the American Graduate School
of International Management (Thunderbird). He holds a Masters
of Business Administration and an undergraduate degree (Bachelor
of Arts) from the University of Puget Sound. He holds a CPA
certificate from the State of Indiana.
His teaching interests are Cost/Managerial Accounting, Government/Not-for-Profit
and Financial Accounting. Dr. Brannan’s primary areas
of research are in the Government/Not-for-Profit area and
in Accounting and Business History.
He publishes a weekly article on Managerial/Cost Accounting
for Irwin/Mc-Graw Hill/Dushkin Publishers. He has published
articles in the following Journals: Southwestern Journal of
Business Administration, American Academy of Accounting and
Finance, The Woman CPA, Annual Advances in Business Cases,
Journal of Case Research, Public Budgeting and Finance, Public
Productivity and Management Review, and the International
Journal of Accounting. He has made numerous presentations
at local, regional, national, and international meetings.
Dr. Brannan is married. He and his wife have 4 sons. He is
very active in the community. He serves as a deacon at the
Cathedral of Lady of the Rosary and is an assistant scoutmaster.
He has served on the board of directors and finance committees
of several charitable and not for profit organizations in
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Kora Cavanaugh
Executive Administrative Specialist
Kora Cavanaugh joined the department
in 1992 after working previously in LSBE Student Affairs.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology/Sociology
and a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree in Parent Education
along with a Certification in Human Services from the University
of Minnesota Duluth. Kora also serves on the LSBE Outreach
Committee and the UMD Commission on Disabilities.
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Loren Erickson, C.P.A.
Instructor of Accounting
Loren Erickson is currently
a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business & Economics
at UW-Superior. He is also the Counseling Coordinator for
the Small Business Development Center, serving the small business
community of Superior and Douglas County. Prior to joining
UWS, Loren worked as a Budget Analyst for Loral Corporation
and also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Western Kenya.
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Peter C. Greenlee, J.D.
Assistant Professor of Business Law
Professor Greenlee, a 1992 graduate
of Hamline University School of Law, is a practicing attorney
in Duluth and Hibbing, Minnesota. His specialty areas include
consumer bankruptcy, secured transactions and civil litigation.
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June F. Li, Ph.D., C.P.A.
Associate Professor of Accounting
Dr. Li teaches Financial Accounting,
Intermediate Accounting, and Advanced Accounting. She focuses
her research efforts in the areas of financial accounting
and accounting education. She has published in numerous academic
and practitioner-oriented journals. Dr. Li is also a member
of the American Accounting Association and the Minnesota Council
of Accounting Educators.
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jli
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Jerry W. Lin, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Associate Professor of Accounting
Dr. Lin joined the accounting
faculty in Fall 1999 and teaches Auditing and Financial Accounting.
He received his Ph.D. in accounting from University of North
Texas in 1994, and his MBA in Accounting and Finance from
University of Houston in 1985.
His research interests include the choice and relevance of
corporate and governmental accounting disclosures, decision
quality, and application of quantitative analysis and information
technologies in accounting and business. His research has
been published in several academic and practitioner journals
and presented at various national and international scholarly
conferences.
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Rick Revoir, M.B.A., C.P.A.
Instructor of Accounting
Rick Revoir is an accounting
graduate from UMD. Rick earned an MBA at Arizona State University,
and he is also a C.P.A. For the past eight years Rick has
worked in the healthcare industry. His experience includes
management responsibility for financial reporting, budgeting,
cost accounting and decision support systems. Rick is a Senior
Financial Analyst at SMDC Health System.
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Alan C. Roline, J.D., M.B.A.
Chair and Associate Professor of Business Law
Professor Roline serves as
Chair of the Department of Accounting and teaches all of the
courses in the Business Law series. His research includes
both practitioner-oriented and pedagogical contributions.
His articles have appeared in Public Personnel Management,
Employment and Labor Law Quarterly, Journal of Legal Studies
Education, and North Dakota Law Review, and Kansas Journal
of Law and Public Policy. He is also one of the authors of
a Prentice-Hall series entitled “Surfing for Success
in Legal Studies.”
Currently, Professor Roline serves as an editor for the American
Business Law Journal and Journal of Legal Studies Education.
He currently serves as President of the Minnesota Council
of Accounting Educators and is past president of the Midwest
Academy of Legal Studies in Business. He is also an active
member of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and American
and Minnesota State Bar Associations.
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Karen Salmela, M.B.A., C.P.A.
Instructor of Accounting
Karen Salmela teaches Financial
and Managerial Accounting. She is a member of the AICPA and
IMA and serves on the boards of the United Way of Greater
Duluth and the United Way Endowment Trust. Karen conducts
workshops in financial management and long-range financial
planning for nonprofits as part of the University of Wisconsin-Superior
Certificate Program in Nonprofit Administration.
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Randy Skalberg, J.D., L.L.M.
Assistant Professor of Taxation and Business Law
Professor Skalberg holds a B.S.B.
in Accounting from the Carlson School of Management at the
University of Minnesota, a J.D from the University of Minnesota
Law School and an L.L.M. in Taxation from Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, Ohio.
He has served as an in-house Tax Counsel to Fortune 500 corporations
including Metris Companies, and The Sherwin-Williams Company,
and spent four years in the tax department at Ernst &
Young’s Minneapolis office. He is admitted to practice
law in Minnesota as well as before the U.S. Tax Court.
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Joon S. Yang, Ph.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Dr. Yang teaches Accounting
Information Systems, Financial Accounting, and Managerial
Accounting. He holds a Ph.D. from Temple University in Philadelphia,
PA and a M.S. in Accountancy from California State University,
Sacramento. His research interests include audit quality,
auditor industry specialization, information content of accounting
information, corporate governance, earnings management, and
accounting information systems. His research has been presented
at several national and regional academic conferences and
published in Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. He
is a member of the American Accounting Association and the
Minnesota Council of Accounting Educators.
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