Showalter Receives Outstanding Service Award from Accounting Association

Before joining the College of Management in 2008, Showalter was a partner at KPMG LLP where he retired on July 31, 2008 after 33 years. He has served in numerous roles at the national and section levels of American Accounting Association, including his current role as chair of the Strategic Management Team.

Showalter also was one of the initial co-editors of the Auditing Section’s Current Issues in Auditing. Other AAA positions served include vice president – professional relations; chair of the finance and audit committees and reviewer, discussant and presenter at national and section meetings. He served two terms as the vice president – practice of the Auditing Section and fulfilled a similar position in the government and nonprofit section. He received his B.S.B.A degree, summa cum laude, in 1975 from the University of Richmond.