Mark W. Dirsmith
Professor Emeritus, Deloitte and Touche Professorship
Department Accounting
Email Address
eu3@psu.edu
Mark W. Dirsmith
Professor Emeritus, Deloitte and Touche Professorship
Department Accounting
Email Address
eu3@psu.edu
Professor Dirsmith received the Deloitte & Touche Teaching Excellence Professorship in Accounting, 1999. He was selected by the Price Waterhouse Foundation for the competitive position of Price Waterhouse Auditing Professor, 1979-1993. Professor Dirsmith is a member of Penn State's Social Thought Program. He received the University-wide George W. Atherton Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005.Professor Dirsmith is a member of the American Accounting Association, American and Pennsylvania Institutes of CPAs, and Academy of Management. He serves as a member on editorial boards and is a manuscript reviewer for several accounting and management journals and the National Science Foundation. Professor Dirsmith has received research grants from the United Nations, National Association of Accountants, and Society of Management Accountants. He has made numerous research presentations at intenational, national and regional meetings of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Decision Sciences, the Academy of Management, the American Sociological Association, the Global Business and Technology Association, the International Conference on Systems Research, Information and Cybemetics, the National Association of Accountants, the Institute of Management Sciences, the Operations Research Society of America, and the Strategic Management Society, and Society for the Social Studies of Science.
Expertise
Professor Dirsmith is the author of over one hundred publications, including three monographs and over seventy journal articles in accounting, institutional conomics, organizational theory, public administration, health care administration, sociology, and strategic management journals.
Education
Ph D, Northwestern University, 1975
Courses Taught
ACCTG 403W – Auditing (3)
Financial, compliance, internal, and operational audits; standards and procedures; sampling; EDP auditing; professional issues; application of concepts through written responses.
ACCTG 496 – Independent Studies (variable)
Creative projects, including research and design, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
ACCTG 494H – Accounting Senior Honors Thesis (variable)
Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
B A 412H – Honors Integration and Research (variable)
The integration of the business core into a detailed financial, strategy and market analysis of actual companies selected by student teams.
B A 574 – Business Research (variable)
A project paper, comparable in quality and scope of work to a graduate thesis, on problems of a company.