Name Stephen Zeff | Education University of Michigan | |
Born July 26, 1933 (age 90)
Chicago ( 1933-07-26 ) Fields Comparative Hist. Development of Standard-Setting, Financial Accounting, History of Thought Known for Scholar of Financial Accounting, International Accounting Books Forging Accounting Principles in New Zealand | ||
Alma mater University of Michigan Residence United States of America | ||
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Stephen Addam Zeff (born July 26, 1933) is an American accounting historian, and Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States.He is inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Life and work
Zeff was born in Chicago, where his father ran a small industrial advertising agency. After his graduation at the Highland Park High School in 1951, he went to the University of Colorado Boulder, where he obtained his BS in 1955 with a major in accountancy, and his MA in 1957. He then moved to the University of Michigan, where he received his MBA in 1960, and his PhD in 1962. Recently he received an honorary doctorate in Economics from the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, in Finland.
Zeff had started working in his undergraduate years as editor for the Colorado Daily, the student newspaper, where he became managing editor in his senior year. In 1955 he became an instructor at the University of Colorado Boulder. At the University of Michigan he taught accounting courses, was assistant of Herb Miller revisioning accounting books, and was research assistant at its Bureau of Industrial Relations. After his graduation in 1961 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Tulane University, and Associate Professor in 1963 and Professor of Accounting in 1966. In 1978 he moved to the Rice University, where he is Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting since 1979.
Over the year Zeff was visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago, Harvard Business School, Northwestern University, and the University of Texas at Austin, and outside the United States in universities in Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.
Honors
Selected publications
Zeff authored and/or edited about 25 books and over 100 articles. Books, a selection:
Articles, a selection: