Alumni Newsletter Fall 2019

Welcome New ACIS Faculty

AndrewAcito

Andrew Acito has been appointed assistant professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business. Acito is one of five new full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty members at Pamplin this fall. Their addition reflects the college’s commitment to hiring faculty to further strengthen its teaching, research, and business outreach, particularly in areas concerning business analytics, innovation and entrepreneurship, and sustainable global prosperity. Acito received a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Iowa and a bachelor’s degree in finance and business process management from Indiana University. Acito’s research publications have examined such topics as the materiality of accounting errors and the effects of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board inspections on auditor-client relationships. At Michigan State University, he taught an undergraduate course on auditing, a graduate course on financial reporting decisions, and an international student orientation course in the master’s program in accounting. His honors and awards include outstanding teacher awards in the master’s and undergraduate accounting programs at Michigan State, the Ballard and Seashore Fellowship at the University of Iowa, and the AmericanAccounting Association/Deloitte Doctoral ConsortiumFellowship. Before embarking on his graduate studies, Acito worked at 3M Company in St. Paul, Minnesota, as a financial analyst and as an internal auditor. Colleen Green Professor Green joined the Pamplin College of Business in the fall of 2019. She holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Colorado Law School, a Masters’ Degree in Tax Accounting from the University of Alabama, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Virginia Tech. Previously, Professor Green served in a joint appointment as an assistant professor at George Mason University School of Business, where she taught courses in financial accounting, taxation, and fraud, and the Antonin Scalia Law School, where she taught courses in federal taxation and partnership taxation. Professor Green is a member of the D.C. Bar and a CPA licensed in Georgia, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Before joining academia, Professor Green worked in public accounting for nearly two decades providing tax preparation and planning services to clients. She spent the majority of her career at PwC’s Washington National Tax Services practice, advising clients and PwC practice offices on a variety of federal taxation issues in the manufacturing, utilities, entertainment, and technology industries. As a director in PwC’s Federal Tax Services group, Professor Green researched and drafted technical memoranda and opinion letters, analyzed contracts, and defended tax positions in controversies with the IRS. During her career at PwC, Professor Green taught numerous classes at firmwide CPE conferences, developed a tax research training curriculum for the entire U.S. tax practice, and wrote thought leadership articles and other position papers. Professor Green has three children and enjoys gardening, hiking, and reading historical fiction in her spare time.

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