Fisher College of Business

Faculty Experts Guide

Daniel L. Jensen

Daniel L. Jensen

Deloitte & Touche Emeritus Professor of Accounting
Academic Director, MAcc Program

Areas of Expertise

Cost analysis
Financial reporting
Accounting history
Accounting hall of fame
Management accounting
Accounting education

Education

PhD, The Ohio State University
MS, University of Minnesota
BA, University of Minnesota

Biography

Professor Jensen is the director of the Master of Accounting Program at Fisher College. His research on cost accounting and auditing topics has been published in various journals including The Accounting Review and the Journal of Accounting Research. He has co-authored two textbooks and edited various books and collections including five volumes of collected writings in the Accounting Hall of Fame Series in Accounting History.

From 1993 to 1995, Jensen was director of publications for the American Accounting Association, chaired the Association's committee on publications, and served on its executive committee. He has served as editor of Issues in Accounting Education and on the editorial boards of various scholarly journals. He has taught cost accounting and management control courses in the Ohio State Accounting Honors Program for more than twenty years in addition to other graduate and undergraduate accounting courses, and has chaired the Accounting Hall of Fame Committee since 1994.

Before joining The Ohio State University in 1980 as the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting, Jensen was a member of the accounting faculties at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Purdue University and served as a visiting professor at Indiana University at Bloomington. A Certified Public Accountant, he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Minnesota. In 1991, he received the Outstanding Ohio Accounting Educator Award.

Contact Information

428 Fisher Hall
Fisher College of Business
2100 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 292-2529
jensen.7@osu.edu

 
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