Survey of Accounting

About Amanda FarmerCarl WarrenJefferson Jones

Amanda G. Farmer C.P.A. has been a full-time lecturer in the JM Tull School of Accounting at the University of Georgia since 2006. A University of Georgia alumna she received her B.B.A. and M.Acc. before beginning work for Trinity Accounting Group in Athens Georgia. She started her own company DolCor Inc. which provided tax and accounting services to business and individual clients. Today her primary area of teaching is managerial accounting. She has taught courses in principles of accounting managerial accounting survey of accounting and professional accounting. She has received numerous teaching awards including Beta Alpha Psis Undergraduate Accounting Teacher of the Year Delta Sigma Pis Outstanding Techer and Alpha Kappa Psis Outstanding Teacher. In addition Professor Farmer is a fellow in the University of Georgias Fellowship for Innovative Teaching program. She is also a member of the Georgia Society of C.P.A.s. Her outside interests include hiking kayaking practicing yoga cooking and spending time with her daughters. Jefferson P. Jones is the PricewaterhouseCoopers associate professor of accounting at Auburn University. He received his bachelor's and master of accountancy degrees from Auburn University and his PhD in accounting from Florida State University. While earning his CPA he worked for Deloitte & Touche. He has received numerous teaching awards including the Outstanding Master of Accountancy Professor Award the Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Teaching Award (six times) the Auburn University College of Business McCartney Teaching Award and the Auburn University School of Accountancy Teaching Award. In addition to writing an intermediate accounting text he has published articles in Advances in Accounting Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting Issues in Accounting Education International Journal of Forecasting The CPA Journal Managerial Finance Journal of Accounting and Finance Research and The Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance. Jones has made numerous presentations around the country on research and pedagogical issues. He is a member of the American Accounting Association (AAA) the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Alabama Society of CPAs (ASCPA). Dr. Carl S. Warren is professor emeritus of accounting at the University of Georgia Athens. For more than 25 years Dr. Warren has taught all levels of accounting courses with a primary focus on introductory of accounting and auditing. Dr. Warren has taught classes at the University of Iowa Michigan State University and the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University and his B.A.A. and M.A. from the University of Iowa. During his career Dr. Warren published numerous articles in professional journals including The Accounting Review Journal of Accounting Research Journal of Accountancy The CPA Journal and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. Dr. Warrens outside interests include handball backpacking skiing hiking fly-fishing and golf. He also spends as much time as possible visiting with his five grandchildren (two sets of twins). Dr. Warren splits his time between Georgia and Montana.