Penn State Harrisburg Faculty Details
Vita
Dr. Buttross joined Penn State Harrisburg in the summer of 2000 in the area of managerial and cost accounting. He has public accounting and prior teaching experience. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Management Accountant (CMA). He has published articles in various journals, especially the Journal of Accountancy and Management Accounting. He co-authored an article in the Winter, 2000, issue of Management Accounting and received a Lybrand Gold Medal, the highest annual award issued by the Institute of Management Accountants, for a publication in Management Accounting.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Mississippi
- M.S., Louisiana State University
- B.S., Mississippi State University
Research Areas
- Advanced managerial accounting tools and techniques, especially target costing and activity-based costing/management.
Continuing Education Interests
- The use of managerial accounting by non-accountants
Professional Affiliations
- Institute of Management Accountants
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- American Accounting Association
College News
Learning Center program earns recertification
Penn State Harrisburg’s Learning Center peer tutor training program has earned a five-year recertification from the College Reading and Learning Association. With this certification, Penn State Harrisburg remains one of only seven certified colleges in the capital region.
The certification provides recognition and positive reinforcement for the tutors’ successful work and sets a standard of skills and training for tutors.
Heard on campus – Franklin and the Junto
Penn State Harrisburg faculty member and Benjamin Franklin scholar George Boudreau terms his recent discovery of a long-lost poem written in 1732 as “one of the greatest finds of my career.”
An associate professor of humanities and history, Boudreau’s research interests focus on Franklin and his philosophical organization called the Junto and the role it played in the cultural transformation of Philadelphia in the 1700s. Boudreau recently related his research findings during a Gallery Lounge presentation hosted by the offices of Academic Affairs and Research and Graduate Studies.
Sen. Vance to deliver commencement keynote
State Senator Patricia H. Vance will deliver the keynote address when Penn State Harrisburg confers more than 500 undergraduate and graduate degrees during fall commencement ceremonies Saturday, December 19.
The ceremonies for students who have earned associate, bachelor’s master’s, and doctoral degrees will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Giant Center, Hershey.