Rice Professor Earns Lifetime Achievement Award

An accounting professor at the Rice University – Jones Graduate School of Business was recently awarded the 2017 Lifetime Service Award from the American Accounting Association (AAA).

Stephen Zeff, the Keith Anderson Professor of Accounting at the Jones Graduate School of Business, was presented with the Lifetime Service Award this August at the annual AAA meeting. Zeff has been a member of the Rice faculty since 1978 and has a long history with the AAA, serving as editor for the organization’s publication, The Accounting Review from 1978-83, and as president of the organization from 1985-86. In 1988, Zeff was presented with the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award from the AAA, was inducted to the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2002, and received the International Federation of Accountants International Gold Service Award in 2011.

To date, Zeff has authored or edited more than 31 books and over 100 scholarly articles. He served as a book review editor for The International Journal of Accounting from 1997 to 2003, and for The Accounting Review from 2006 to 2015. He has also served as a visiting professor across the globe, from the University of California at Berkeley and University of Chicago to schools in Australia, the Netherlands, and Mexico. Zeff has lectured in more than 55 countries and currently serves on the editorial board of 15 research journals edited across 10 countries.

The American Accounting Association is an organization dedicated to the education, research and practice of accounting throughout the world. The Lifetime Service Award is presented to leaders in the field who have demonstrated important contributions to accounting through service to the association and other professional accounting organizations.

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