Nationality United States Name Joni Young | Role Accountant Fields Accounting | |
Institution University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of New Mexico |
Joni J Young is an American accounting academic.
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Joni J. Young is a Professor of Accountancy at the Anderson School of Management, of the University of New Mexico. She has also been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. She qualified as a Certified Public Accountant in 1981, winning the Elijah Watt Sells award of distinction for CPA exam results. Since becoming an academic, Young has twice won (in 2008 and 2012) the Outstanding Educator Award from the New Mexico Society of Certified Public Accountants. In 2011, she won the award for Notable Contributions to the Accounting Literature from the American Accounting Association. She is an Associate Editor of Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.
Much of Dr. Young’s work has been focused on her interests in institutional financial reporting and accountability.