James Carroll, CPA

Email carrollj@georgian.edu

Phone: 732-987-2664 and cell 908-581-7727

Fax: 732-987-2024

Office Location: Farley Center 311

Office Hours: Posted on my office door or call my cell phone at 908-581-7727

Dept/School: School of Business

Vita(PDF): J. Carroll Vita

Education:

• Doctor of Business Administration, Nova Southeastern University (1987)
• MBA in Finance, Rutgers - The State University (1972)
• BS Industrial Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (1969)

Professional Licenses and Certifications:

• Certified Management Accountant
• Certified Public Accountant (NJ)
• Certified Fraud Examiner
• Certified in Financial Management
• Certified in Financial Forensics
• Chartered Global Management Accountant

Courses Taught:

• Undergraduate:
  • Accounting
    • Auditing, Assurance and Corporate Governance
    • Cost Accounting and Budgetary Control
    • Principles of Accounting
    • Intermediate Accounting
    • Federal Income Tax
    • Governmental and Not-for Profit Accounting
     
  • Finance
    • Financial Management
    • Investment Analysis
    • Personal Financial Planning
     
  • Management
    • Business Strategy
    • Business & Professional Ethics
     
   
• Graduate:
  • Accounting
    • Managerial Accounting & Budgetary Control
    • Auditing, Assurance and Corporate Governance
     
  • Finance
    • Financial Management
    • Financial Management Policy
    • Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
     
  • Management
    • Strategic Management
    • Strategic Management Projects
     

Research Area:

• Forensics Economic and Accounting
• Professional and Regulatory Ethics
• Strategic and Enterprise Risk Management

Service to the University:

• Department Chair (2003-2005), MBA Director (2012 and continuing, Faculty Concerns Committee and Salary & Benefits sub-committee, Third year Reviewer (2008 and continuing), Member – Middle States Re-Affirmation sub-committee.
• Professional and Academic Affiliations:
  • American Institute of CPAs
  • New Jersey Society of CPAs - Professional Conduct, Educators, and Scholarship committees
  • Institute of Management Accountants
  • Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
  • National Association of Forensic Economics
  • Academy of Management
  • Eastern Academy of Management
  • International Council for Small Business
  • North American Case Research Association
  • The Case Association
   

Professional Experience - partial list:

• Corporate educator in accounting, finance, and professional ethics to corporations and individuals including:
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Ernst & Young
  • AT&T
  • IBM
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Sanofi-Aventis
  • K. Hovnanian
  • Medco
  • BASF
   
• Expert-witness witness in economic impact, fraud, and professional malpractice in hundreds of legal matters in the courts of New Jersey.
• Instructor in the NJ Law & Ethics for CPAs course as authorized by the NJ State Board of Accountancy
• Financial Manage/ Group Controller, Honeywell (then Allied Signal)
• Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer, US Subsidiary of Sandvik
• Engelhard Corporation, Assistant Group Controller
• Deloitte (then Touche Ross), Management Consultant

Recent Publications and Applied Scholarship:

• "The State of Practice Mobility", NJ CPA - the official publication of the NJ Society of CPAs, March-April 2011
• Authored and gained NJ State Board approval (2006, 2009, and 2012) to teach the "NJ Law & Ethics course for CPAs" - a course required to be taken by all NJ CPAs in each licensing period.
• Review of The Power of Problem-Based Learning. Barbara J. Duch, Susan E. Groh, & Debroah E. Allen (Eds.). Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2001. June 2005 edition of the Academy of Management, Learning & Education Journal.
• The Anatomy of an Instructional Case from a Reviewers Perspective. The Case Journal.Fall 2005.
• Edited (guest editor) a section of Volume 2, Number 2 of the Organization Management Journal, the official journal of the Eastern Academy of Management. Fall 2005.
• "A Primer on Case Reviewing" The Case Journal, Fall 2004.
• Investigating Entrepreneurial Opportunities: A Practical Guide to Due Diligence (co-authored with Richard Green), Sage Publications, 2000.
• Hundreds of expert-witness opinions of economic impact and professional malpractice as used in legal matters in the courts of New Jersey.

Professional and Academic Affiliations:

• American Institute of CPAs
• New Jersey Society of CPAs - Professional Conduct, Educators, and Scholarship committees
• Institute of Management Accountants
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
• National Association of Forensic Economics
• Academy of Management
• Eastern Academy of Management
• International Council for Small Business
• North American Case Research Association
• The Case Association

Editorial Board Memberships - partial list:

• The Journal of Small Business Management - Editorial Board Member - 1990 to 2000, and 2001 and continuing. Selected as the Outstanding Member of the editorial board - 1996.
• The Case Research Journal- Editorial Board Member - 1994 and continuing. Selected as the Outstanding Member of the editorial board - 2000 and 2008.
• Fraud Magazine: Journal of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, 1999 to 2004
• The CASE Journal, 2004 and continuing

Why I like GCU:

• My work contributes to the success of students in their scholarship, careers, and lives. I am very proud to be a small part of their lives. I thoroughly enjoy hearing from alumni about their successes.