Rutgers Distinguished Professor Reappointed

Rutger’s Business School, Newark and New Brunswick professor Miklos Vasarhelyi has been reappointed as the KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting. Both Vasarhelyi’s research and teaching have brought national prominence to Rutgers Business School’s accounting programs. Representatives of KPMG and Rutgers Business School administrators highlighted Vasarhelyi’s accomplishments as a scholar, researcher and teacher during a luncheon celebrating the formal reappointment.

KPMG LLP is an audit, tax and advisory firm. It is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”). KPMG International’s member firms have 145,000 professionals, including more than 8,000 partners, in 152 countries. KPMG delivers a globally consistent set of multidisciplinary services based on deep industry knowledge.

Vasarhelyi came to Rutgers in 1989 from AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is credited with bringing a state-of-the-art focus to the professional accounting curriculum at Rutgers, leading the Rutgers Accounting Research Center’s CAR Lab and building the nation’s top academic program in accounting information systems.

Bernard Milano, president of the KPMG Foundation, described the company’s efforts to enhance accounting education, efforts which begin with pre-kindergarten children and include scholarships, matching gifts to universities and sponsorships. Milano said the distinguished professorship at Rutgers is the “pinnacle” of KPMG’s work to strengthen and support accounting education.

Vasarhelyi, his family, colleagues and PhD students attended a luncheon on Dec. 16, celebrating his reappointment. In a brief slide show at the luncheon, he highlighted some of the work he has done since coming to Rutgers Business School in 1989. As he showed some of the slides of his early efforts, he turned to the guests and said, “In retrospect, this was real fun.”

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