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Three Business Professors Win National Author Award and Research Grant
Randall Rentfro, Ph.D., assistant professor of accounting, (left) and Karen McKenzie, Ph.D., professor of accounting (center) are presented with the AGA 2010 National Author Award.
Three professors from the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship — Karen McKenzie, Ph.D., professor of accounting, Randall Rentfro, Ph.D., assistant professor of accounting, and Judy Harris, D.B.A., associate professor of accounting — were recently presented with the Association of Government Accountants’ (AGA) 2010 National Author Award for their article titled “Building Trust or Mistrust: The Search for Performance Reporting from a Citizen’s Perspective.” The award was presented on July 13 in conjunction with AGA’s 59th Annual Professional Development Conference & Exposition at the World Center Marriott in Orlando.
The award is selected from all of the articles published in AGA’s Journal during the program year. The winner of this prestigious award is decided by the AGA Journal’s Editorial Board, and is based on the article they judge to have made the most significant contribution to the profession.
In addition to the AGA award, the three professors also received the Gil Crain Memorial Research Grant from the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB). The project will lead to a research monograph, which will help GASB determine whether there should be an accounting standard that requires governmental units to disclose information about tax abatements (e.g., giving new businesses a break on property taxes).