Robins School’s Joe Hoyle named to Accounting Today’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting list
October 1, 2009
Joe Hoyle, associate professor of accounting at the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business, has been named to Accounting Today’s “Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting” for 2009.
The list includes public officials, CPAs, attorneys, regulators, educators and vendors who exemplify leadership and influence in the accounting field. Also named were Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, SEC Chair Mary Schapiro and CEOs of KPMG, Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte and Grant Thornton.
Editors of Accounting Today said Hoyle is “a highly regarded professor (named one of the favorite undergraduate professors in the United States by BusinessWeek) and has revolutionized the CPA exam review with his free Web site, which had more than four million page views in its first year.”
Hoyle was the Virginia winner in the U.S. Professors of the Year Competition in 2007, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He also is a winner of the Outstanding Faculty award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, and has been honored for his Socratic method of teaching, which students say is demanding but highly effective.
Hoyle has published a free, online guide to college teaching and has given teaching presentations across the country. He is the co-author (along with Tom Schaefer of Notre Dame and Tim Doupnik of the University of South Carolina) of the number-one selling advanced accounting textbook in the country, which will soon be coming out in its 10th printing. In addition, Hoyle is co-author (with C.J. Skender of the University of North Carolina) of a new financial accounting textbook that will be released in November.
Jack Reagan, a former student and partner at KPMG, said, “When I was his student, Professor Hoyle taught me accounting. But he also provided perspective on what to try to get out of life beyond the business world. During my professional career, Joe has continued to mentor and motivate me to keep that perspective in place. Many of us do not make major business or life decisions without seeking his wise counsel first.”
The Robins School is ranked by BusinessWeek as number 12 in the country for its undergraduate program and 14th for its part-time MBA program.