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Ronald R. Tidd, Ph.D., CPA/CITP

Professor, Accounting, Master of Professional Accountancy
College of Business
 

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Professor Ronald R. Tidd is a professor of accounting in the College of Business at Central Washington University. Currently he serves as the Chair of the Department of Accounting and the Director of the Master of Professional Accountancy program. He left public accounting after two years in audit and five years in tax (most with KPMG Peat Marwick) to pursue his Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota. It was granted in 1992. He previously served on the faculties at the School of Business and Economics at Michigan Technological University (1997-2001) and School of Management at Syracuse University (1991-1997).

Ron has a passionate interest in computer technology, which provides the unifying theme for his academic career. He has served on computer resource committees at Central Washington, Michigan Tech and with the American Taxation Association's (ATA), contributed software reviews to The Journal of the American Taxation Association, and written a bi-monthly technology column for TAXES Magazine.

Ron has presented his research on the political environment of U.S. tax policy, to the North American Tax Policy Conference (1995) and the American Accounting Association (AAA) Northeast Regional Meeting (1996). His research into theory-based and technology-driven learning tools has been presented in several conferences, including those of the International Business School Computing Association (1993, 1994), the World Case Method Research and Application (1994), the Conference on Managing Information Technology (1998, 2002), the International Applied Business Research Conference (2002), the American Taxation Association Midyear Conference (1995, 2000, 2001, 2002), and the AICPA Tax Education Symposium (1996, 1998, 2000). Currently he is:

• investigating how to effectively and efficiently use the Web in distributed education,

• researching how Internet-based commerce will affect the interjurisdictional tax systems, and

• learning the art and science of computer forensics and ethical hacking .

Ron's current teaching focus is on accounting information systems, ebusiness, and computer forensics, with an emphasis on the College's new MPA program. He also has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in accounting information systems, taxation, and financial accounting, plus an introductory accounting course at the East China University of Technology in Shanghai, and the freshman management course at Syracuse University. He also served as faculty advisor to the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program (1992-2001). As a result of his efforts with students, undergraduate management students at Syracuse University selected him as the Beta Gamma Sigma Faculty Member of the Year 1995/1996 and students at Central Washington University nominated him for the Faculty of the Year Award in his first year at that institution. In his second year at CWU, the students selected him for the award.

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