| Department: | Accounting |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Office: | WB 132 |
| Email: | henageri@uvu.edu |
| Phone: | (801) 863-6151 |
| Fax: | (801) 863-8060 |
| Mail Code: | 103 |
Accounting
Richard T. Henage has been at UVSC since 2001.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration
Major: Accounting. Allied Fields: Finance and Econometrics.
Master of Business Administration
Miller Award (given to top 2 MBA students).
Bachelor of Science
Minor: Theater Arts. Graduated cum laude.
Academic Experience
Associate Professor (Tenured) – Accounting
Taught undergraduate upper-division financial accounting and accounting information systems
courses. Assisted in the revision of the department curriculum and developed the curriculum
for a new accounting information systems emphasis for accounting majors. Faculty advisor
for the student accounting association.Served on the assessment committee.
Claremont
Professor of Economics - Accounting
Top-ten liberal arts college specializing in business & government.
Taught undergraduate information technology and financial accounting courses. Served on the
Budget and Finance Committee with the Board of Trustees. Instituted experiential learning
course in Information Technology and Accounting System Design. Lectured internationally in
Economic Resource Planning, eCommerce, B2B, and Information Technology. Appointed
as Visiting Professor at
faculty at the Peter Drucker School of Business at the
Visiting Professor of Accounting
Large top-100 research university.
Taught full-time while working full-time towards a Ph.D. with major in Accounting and
minors in Finance and Econometrics. Honored as the outstanding doctoral student in
my major and elected to the American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium.
First accounting student to ever be offered a full-time appointment as a visiting
professor upon completion of my degree.
Professional Experience
American Engine-X-Change (
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Largest automobile engine repair & replacement service chain in
Promoted in 1988 from controller of
headquarters. Developed corporate restructuring plan in 1988. Coordinated all
administrative and financial functions for the corporation. Served on the board of directors
from 1989 to 1994.
ViaNet (Houston) 1986 to 1987
Controller
Largest local courier & express package delivery network in
Coordinated financial consolidation of seven local transportation firms. Oversaw
implementation of new computer system. Responsible for accounting, data processing
and administrative staff (60 employees).
Conoco ( Financial Analyst, Administrative Analyst, Manager
Major oil & gas corporation (subsidiary of DuPont)
Developed department policy and procedures manuals. Implemented computerized
budget system. Introduced the first usage of the personal computer into Conoco in
1982 and oversaw the national implementation of personal computers in 1983.
Developed financial analyst training program and authored investment analysis
software program. Managed transportation facility (35 employees) for a refinery.
Self-employed (
Accounting Practice
Performed accounting services on contract basis for several local companies while a full-time
student. Work included full accounting and tax functions for an oil field services company
(Gent Oil & Water) and a frozen foods transportation company (Garfield Trucking), as well
as the annual regulatory audit of a local credit union (Logan Community Hospital Credit
Union).
Arthur Andersen & Co. (
Staff Accountant
“Big-5” Accounting Firm
Performed audits for oil & gas, mining, and retail corporations in
a not-for-profit branch office in
Board of Director and Executive Committee Appointments
Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors 2004 to present
1st City Savings Federal Credit Union
Supervisory Committee of the Board of Directors 1999 to 2000
Plenary Faculty 1999 to 2000
Budget & Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees 1997 to 1998
Internal Automated Business Machines
Board of Directors 1991 to 1995
Accel Business Solutions
Board of Directors 1990 to 1994
American Engine-X-Change
Board of Directors 1989 to 1994
Board of Trustees 1990 to 1992
Research
Interests
Banking; e-Commerce; Information Technology; Internal Control
Conference Presentations and Proceedings Publications
“A survey of methods used to teach time value of money applications in upper-division
cost/managerial accounting classes: Descriptive statistics” co-authored with Sheldon
R. Smith, Steve Johnson and Jonathan R. Henage. Forthcoming presentation at the
Western Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting (2006)
“Small business owners’ perceptions of internal control issues” co-authored with Jonathan
R. Henage. Forthcoming presentation at the Western Decision Sciences Institute Annual
Meeting (2006)
“How time value of money topics are taught in intermediate accounting classes” co-authored
with Sheldon R. Smith and Steve Johnson and published in Proceedings of the Thirty-
Fourth Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute (2005).
“Family finance for blended families” co-authored with Sheldon Smith and Steve Johnson
and published in the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences Meeting
Proceedings (2004).
“Bank failure prediction in a stable market.” Presented at the
Banking and Finance annual meeting (2004).
“Teaching time value of money for accounting applications” co-authored with Sheldon R.
Smith and Steve Johnson and published as an extended abstract in the American
Accounting Association Western Region annual meeting (2004).
“Developing professionalism in accounting students” co-authored with Sheldon R. Smith and
Ryan P. Tucker (student). Presented at the American Society of Business and Behavioral
Sciences annual meeting and published in the Proceedings (2004)
“Teaching time value of money for accounting applications: Empirical evidence” co-authored
with Sheldon R. Smith and Steve Johnson and presented at the national American
Accounting Association annual meeting (2004)
“Academic accountants’ response to ‘Time value of money: A note on more effective
teaching’” co-authored with Sheldon R. Smith and Steve Johnson. Presented at the
American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences annual meeting and accepted
for the Proceedings (2003)
“The seduction of Arthur Thompson: An instructional case on ethics in the accounting
workplace” published in Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the
Western Decision Sciences Institute (2003).
“Restructuring in the Internet industry” co-authored with Daniel L. Henage and published in
Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences
Institute (2003)
“Professional accounting exams: Perpetuating the obsolete” prepared with Sheldon R. Smith
and Steve Johnson, and presented at the national Decision Sciences Institute annual meeting
(2003)
of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute
(2000)
“An analysis of the growth of the CPA WebTrust program” published in Proceedings
of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute
(2000)
“Bank failure prediction in a full-population setting” published in Proceedings of the
Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Western Decision Sciences Institute (1999)
“Teaching accounting information systems in a practicum format” (Presented at the
1999 ABSEL National Meeting)
“Auditor changes: An examination of Form 8-K Disclosures” written with
Laurel Mitchell and Andrew McDonald (Presented at the 1998 AAA Western
Regional Meeting)
“A comparison of auditor going-concern opinions and statistical model accuracies
in predicting commercial bank failure” (Presented at the 1997 AAA Western
Regional Meeting)
“The application of bank failure prediction models to the